Grants Authorized 2007
Serving Bay Area Communities
Previous Program
Advancement Project
Los Angeles, CA
For strategic planning
$100,000
African Economic Research Consortium
Nairobi, Kenya
For general operating support (Collaboration with Population and Global Development)
66,000
African Population and Health Research Centre
Nairobi, Kenya
For work with community groups and programs to promote the well-being of Africans in slum communities (Collaboration with Population)
15,000
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Cambridge, MA
For a series of workshops on K-16 education and evidence-based policy
100,000
Aspen Institute
Washington, DC
For the Congressional Program, a nonpartisan education initiative that provides policymakers with a deeper understanding of, and background on, public policy issues (Collaboration with Environment and Global Development)
300,000
Boston Review
Somerville, MA
For costs related to a special issue of Boston Review on foreign aid
(Collaboration with Global Development)
40,000
Bread for the World Institute
Washington, DC
For general support (Collaboration with Global Development)
1,500,000
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Chicago, IL
For development of the Bulletin Web site
200,000
California County Superintendents Educational Services Association
Sacramento, CA
For the Reinvigorating Arts Education in California project (Collaboration with Education and Performing Arts)
465,000
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
For a study on the effect of reputational and material incentives on volunteering
10,340
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Washington, DC
For general support of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's New Vision Initiative
10,000,000
Center for Global Development
Washington, DC
For the videoconferencing project
21,000
Classics for Kids Foundation
Bozeman, MT
For a Bay Area string instrument mentoring pilot project (Collaboration with Performing Arts)
25,000
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
New York, NY
For a special fundraising campaign to honor Dr. Allan Rosenfield (Collaboration with Population)
1,500,000
Commonwealth Club of California
San Francisco, CA
For the Voices of Reform Project
150,000
Communications Network
Naperville, IL
For general operating support
20,000
Consensus Building Institute
Cambridge, MA
For a leadership summit on U.S. engagement with the Muslim world
81,000
Decision Research
Eugene, OR
For research on people's response to large-scale humanitarian problems (Collaboration with Philanthropy)
100,000
Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions
New Windsor, NY
For general support
1,000,000
Energy Foundation
San Francisco, CA
For the videoconferencing project
43,000
Fritz Institute
San Francisco, CA
For support of the first phase of a study of the Bay Area's preparedness for disaster prevention, relief, and recovery
158,000
For the development of a new model to increase the effectiveness of African humanitarian organizations (Collaboration with Population and Global Development)
100,000
Georgetown University, Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC
For the Conference on the Judiciary Inquiry
25,000
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association
Arlington, VA
For continuation of the By The People project
40,000
Hope Street Group
Los Angeles, CA
For general support
300,000
Independent Sector
Washington, DC
For a planning grant to explore the feasibility and scope of an initiative to strengthen the national social compact
100,000
Institute of International Education
New York, NY
For general operating support of the African Partnership Travel & Learning Fund (Collaboration with Education, Population, and Global Development)
200,000
International Planned Parenthood Federation
London, United Kingdom
For the videoconferencing project
65,000
Internews Network
Washington, DC
For emergency support to the Media Support Mission, providing a flow of information to the people affected by the Indonesian earthquake
50,000
Ithaka
New York, NY
For a study to assess the need for an organization to promote Open Source Software projects (Collaboration with Education)
17,000
For general support
2,500,000
Marie Stopes International
London, United Kingdom
For the videoconferencing project
65,000
Mayor's Community Partnership for School Excellence
Los Angeles, CA
For the design and planning of a "Mayor's District" in the Los Angeles education system (Collaboration with Education)
500,000
Menlo School
Atherton, CA
For general support of Menlo School's Music@Menlo program (Collaboration with Performing Arts)
150,000
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
For partial support of a nationwide public meeting and video Webcast in fall 2006 to inform the public regarding ways to strengthen U.S. competitiveness (Collaboration with Education)
15,000
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Science, Technology, and Law
Washington, DC
For support of an assessment of the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence in preparation for its third edition
50,000
National Association of Environmental Law Societies
Ann Arbor, MI
For general support (Collaboration with Environment)
100,000
Natural Resources Defense Council
San Francisco, CA
For the videoconferencing project
55,000
Partnership for a Secure America
Washington, DC
For general operating support
150,000
Peaceworks Foundation
New York, NY
For the OneVoice initiative
10,000
Peninsula Community Foundation
San Mateo, CA
For support of the merger of Community Foundation Silicon Valley and Peninsula Community Foundation into the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Collaboration with Philanthropy and Regional Grants)
257,496
For general operating support
100,000
Population Reference Bureau
Washington, DC
For the videoconferencing project
21,000
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
For a conference on the psychology and behavioral economics related to philanthropic behavior, especially in response to disasters
58,000
Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton, NJ
For the public outreach phase of the Princeton Project on National Security
Collaboration with Global Development
Public Policy Institute of California
San Francisco, CA
For support to update the research and extend the outreach of the Public Policy Institute of California's California 2025 project
495,000
Salzburg Seminar
Middlebury, VT
For strategic planning
100,000
San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds
San Francisco, CA
For the second phase of the Diversity in Philanthropy project
50,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
San Mateo, CA
For general support of the new Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Collaboration with Philanthropy)
500,000
Southwest Voter Registration Education Project
Los Angeles, CA
For increasing voter participation in underserved communities in California (Collaboration with Environment)
250,000
SRI International
Menlo Park, CA
For studies on three different obstacles to greater delivery of arts education in California's K-12 public schools (Collaboration with Education and Performing Arts)
165,000
For completing a study of arts education in California (Collaboration with Education and Performing Arts)
133,000
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
For general support for the Center for Deliberative Democracy
300,000
For the initial planning phase of an effort to analyze and reform the institutional structure of California's political system
10,000
For a conference on innovations in Latin American legal education
40,000
For a presentation entitled "Originalism, Music and the Constitution" (Collaboration with Performing Arts)
50,000
For funds to support the research of Kenneth J. Arrow, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
50,000
For a meeting in Berlin, the third phase of the Preventive Force project
75,000
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Washington, DC
For support of the start-up phase of the Policy Innovation in Education Network (Collaboration with Education)
50,000
Trust for Public Land
San Francisco, CA
For the videoconferencing project
60,000
United Nations Development Programme, Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery
New York, NY
For the Capacity Development for Reform Fund (Collaboration with Global Development)
1,000,000
United States Department of State
Washington, DC
For the State Fellows program (Collaboration with Global Development)
100,000
University of California at Berkeley, Graduate School of Education
Berkeley, CA
For the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum on building quantitative and critical analytic awareness and skills among journalism students
83,000
University of Colorado at Boulder, African Population Studies Research and Training Program
Boulder, CO
For the videoconferencing project
23,000
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
For the videoconferencing project
60,000
World Bank
Washington, DC
For the Growth Commission to analyze the drivers of, and impediments to, equitable economic growth (Collaboration with Global Development)
1,000,000
Yale University
New Haven, CT
For general support of the Leadership Training Program designed to serve those in the most senior ranks of Chinese governmental officials
200,000
YouthNOISE
San Francisco, CA
For general support
100,000