• Private Higher Education
• Secondary Education
• Religion
• Health Care
• Public Television
• Other Grants

ALLEGHENY COLLEGE, Meadville, PA
$250,000
Geographic Information System Laboratory

AUSTIN COLLEGE, Sherman, TX
$250,000
Science equipment endowment

CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE, Claremont, CA
$250,000
Center for Writing and Public Discourse endowment for programming

DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC
$190,000
Civic Engagement Program

ECKERD COLLEGE, St. Petersburg, FL
$250,000
Science equipment

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE, Hampden-Sydney, VA
$250,000
Classroom improvements

HENDRIX COLLEGE, Conway, AR
$250,000
Endowment for the Odyssey Program

JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY, Charlotte, NC
$250,000
Leadership minor within the Center for Applied Leadership & Community Development

MARS HILL COLLEGE, Mars Hill, NC
$250,000
Endowment to preserve Southern Appalachian archives

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, Middlebury, VT
$250,000
Middle East Studies Curriculum

OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE, Los Angeles, CA
$250,000
Construction of new psychophysiology laboratory

SCRIPPS COLLEGE, Claremont, CA
$250,000
Special and rare book collection

SKIDMORE COLLEGE, Saratoga Springs, NY
$250,000
Faculty development aimed at institutionalizing civic engagement within the curriculum

ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE, Annapolis, MD
$250,000
Faculty development initiative in language

ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY, Canton, NY
$250,000
Integrated approach to academic advising, internships and alumni mentoring

ST. OLAF COLLEGE, Northfield, MN
$250,000
Relocation of the Center for Experiential Learning

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Secondary Education
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI
$191,532
Professional development and literacy instruction for high school teachers

 

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA
$200,000
High School Biology Inquiry Science Project

CAST, INC., Wakefield, MA
$200,000
Web-based professional development in University Design for Learning

EXPLORATORIUM, San Francisco, CA
$200,000
Online support for beginning high school science teachers

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA
$199,950
Professional development for high school science teachers through partnerships with Georgia Tech scientists

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA
$200,000
Expansion of Molecular Biology programs for high school teachers

YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT
$195,889
Teaching about Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, Boston, MA
$200,000
Learning in a Nexus of Communities (LINC) program

BRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL, Fort Worth, TX
$200,000
Scholarship enhancement for highly qualified Master of Divinity degree students

CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION, Chicago, IL
$200,000
Scholarships for lay students

HARTFORD SEMINARY, Hartford, CT
$50,000
Religious Leadership in an Interfaith World 

HARVARD UNIVERSITY-THE PLURALISM PROJET, Cambridge, MA
$50,000
Interfaith Infrastructure: Citizenship and Leadership in the Multi-religious City

HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Salisbury, NC
$200,000
Toward construction of a new refectory

OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, San Antonio, TX
$200,000
Educational technology in multi-use building

PACIFIC LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Berkeley, CA
$200,000
Endowment for educational technology improvements

UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, New York, NY
$200,000
Enhance multi-use capability of James Chapel

YALE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN, New Haven, CT
$50,000
Establish Interfaith programs in Yale’s 12 Colleges

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GEORGE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH, Washington, DC
$175,851
Develop standards for caring attitudes in health care systems

HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINCY, New York, NY
$190,000
Develop sub-specialty in palliative care for Chaplains

MAYO CLINIC, Jacksonville, FL
$48,000
Invitational conference for AVDF’s grantees

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New York, NY
$100,000
Dissemination of a curriculum for instilling caring attitudes in surgical residents

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, Tampa, FL
$188,800
Interprofessional training in patient-centered communications and empathy

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES, Winston-Salem, NC
$200,000
Education for Mindful Practice and Attitudes Towards Healing in Geriatric Care

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Public Television

PBS, Arlington, VA
$250,000
PBS Kids Go! website

WETA, Arlington, VA
$500,000
For Ken Burns’ Telling America’s Stories

WETA, Arlington, VA
$285,000
The Latino Americans, a six-hour television series chronicling the lives of Latinos in the United States from 1800-2000

WGBH, Boston, MA
$250,000
Season Four for Martha Speaks, a literacy series for children

WGBH, Boston, MA
$150,000
To complete production of The Amish

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JACKSON LABORATORY, Bar Harbor, ME
$100,000
Sabbatical teacher internship program

PITZER COLLEGE, Claremont, CA
$150,000
Program in sustainability and the built environment

SALK INSTITUTE, La Jolla, CA
$200,000
Purchase of Environmental Scanning Electronic Microscope (E-SEM)

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