Download Philanthropy Annual PDF - Foundation Center

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Prize Philanthropy AWARDS and Recipients, 2009 Beverly H. Wright, founder and executive director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Dillard University Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize Description: Honors an organization that has made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering anywhere in the world. Amount: $1.5 million 2009 Recipient(s): PATH, Seattle, WA Hyatt Foundation Pritzker Architecture Prize Description: Honors living architects whose work demonstrates a combination of talent, vision, and commitment and who have produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity. Amount: $100,000 2009 Recipient(s): Peter Zumthor, Switzerland James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards Description: Honors Californians who are developing practical solutions to some of the state’s most critical challenges. Amount: $125,000 per organization 2009 Recipient(s): Josefina Alvarado Mena, Safe Passages/Youth Ventures Joint Powers Authority, Oakland Tim Dang, East West Players, Los Angeles Kathryn Icenhower, Shields for Families, Los Angeles Luis Santana, Reading and Beyond, Fresno Richard Valle, Tri-Ced Community Recycling, Union City Jennifer Vanica, Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, San Diego Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Award Description: Recognizes individuals who have overcome daunting obstacles to improve the health and quality of life for underserved men, women, and children in communities across the United States Amount: $125,000 each 2009 Recipient(s): Amanda Gaynor Ashley, D.M.D., Ms.Edu., dental clinic director, Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital Dental Clinic, Barrow, AK David Carey, chairperson, Inspire Human Services Co-op, Phoenix, AZ Hugh F. “Trey” Daly III, J.D., senior attorney, Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati, OH Lynne Holden, M.D., president and chief executive officer, Mentoring in Medicine, Inc., Bronx, NY Uwe Jacobs, Ph.D., clinical and executive director, Survivors International, San Francisco, CA Rajiv Kumar, chair and co-founder, Shape Up RI, Providence, RI Sonith Peou, program director, Metta Health Center, Lowell, MA Frances Stout, R.N., board chair, Tohono O’odham Nursing Care Authority (TONCA), Sells, AZ Claudia Stravato, board member and retired executive director, Texas Panhandle Family Planning and Health Centers, Amarillo, TX Satira Streeter, Psy.D., executive and clinical director, Ascensions Community Services, Inc., Washington, DC The Joyce Foundation Joyce Award Description: Awarded to arts organizations in the Great Lakes region to support artists of color and their new works. Amount: $50,000 per organization 2009 Recipient(s): Dance: Ravinia Festival, Chicago, to support choreographer Bill T. Jones Music: Detroit International Jazz Festival, Detroit, to support bassist, composer, and arranger John Clayton Theater: Goodman Theatre, Chicago, to support playwright Quiara Alegía Hudes Visual Arts: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, to support visual artist Iona Rozeal Brown Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship Description: Awarded to promising young scholars who contribute new insight into the field of entrepreneurship. Amount: $50,000 2009 Recipient(s): Antoinette Schoar, Ph.D., Michael M. Koerner Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research Description: Helps to promote the early career development of some of the country’s most promising biomedical scientists. Amount: up to $1 million to each institution over a period of up to five years 2009 Recipient(s): Jason Brickner, Northwestern University Chang-Zheng Chen, Stanford University Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco J. Christopher Love, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wenying Shou, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center W.M. Keck Foundation Research Excellence Awardees Description: To recognize the achievement of five young scientists. Amount: up to $1 million to each institution over a period of up to five years 2009 Recipient(s): Sreeganga Chandra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University Benjamin Peng-Chu Tu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Tatyana Sharpee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Leor Weinberger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego Thomas Westbrook, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine 22 | Philanthropy Annual 2009
Prize Philanthropy AWARDS and Recipients, 2009 Knight Foundation Knight Arts Challenge Description: Awards the best ideas for the arts in South Florida. Amount: $3.7 million in matching grants (shared) 2009 Recipient(s): 20 recipients (See list at www.knightarts.org/knight-artschallenge/2009-winners/) Knight Foundation Knight News Challenge Description: For creating innovative digital projects with the potential to transform community life. Amount: $10,000–$719,500 each; $5.1 million total 2009 Recipient(s): Joe Boydston, “CMS Upload Utility,” McNaughton Newspaper Group, Placerville, CA Aleksandra Chojnacka and Adam Klawonn, “The Daily Phoenix,” Phoenix, AZ John Ewing, “Virtual Street Corners,” Roxbury, MA Ory Okolloh, “Crowdsourcing Crisis Information,” Ushahidi, Orlando, FL Aaron Presnall, “Data Visualization,” The Jefferson Institute, Washington, DC Gail Robinson, “Councilpedia,” Citizens Union Foundation, New York, NY Scott Rosenberg, “MediaBugs,” Berkeley, CA Eric Umansky and Scott Klein, ProPublica; and Aron Pilhofer and Ben Koski, The New York Times, “DocumentCloud,” New York, NY Katrin Verclas, “Mobile Media Toolkit,” MobileActive, New York, NY Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Lasker Awards Description: Honors outstanding basic and clinical medical research discoveries and for lifetime contributions to medical science. Amount: $300,000 each 2009 Recipient(s): Basic Medical Research Award: John Gurdon, Cambridge University Shinya Yamanaka, Kyoto University Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award: Nicholas B. Lyndon, formerly of Novartis Charles L. Sawyers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science: Michael R. Bloomberg, New York City Mayor Lemelson Foundation Lemelson-MIT Prize Description: The prize recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention. Amount: $100,000 2009 Recipient(s): Dr. Joel Selanikio, co-founder, DataDyne, and assistant professor of pediatrics, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC Lodestar Foundation The Collaboration Prize Description: Awarded annually to a collaboration that demonstrates quantifiable evidence of impact and effectiveness through programmatic collaborations, administrative consolidation, or other joint activities. Amount: $250,000 (shared) 2009 Recipient(s): YMCA & JCC, Greater Toledo, OH Museum of Nature & Science, Dallas, TX John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions Description: For demonstrating significant impact in their fields and spurring significant change with modest budgets. Amount: $350,000, $500,000, or $650,000 each 2009 Recipient(s): Access to Justice, Lagos, Nigeria Caribbean Natural Resources Institute, Port of Spain, Trinidad Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, IL Centre for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg, Russia Chicago Community Loan Fund, Chicago, IL Mahila SEWA Trust, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India National Housing Conference & Center for Housing Policy, Washington, DC Women of the Don Region, Novocherkassk, Russia John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Fellows Description: For individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future. Often called “genius” grants. Amount: $500,000 each over five years 2009 Recipient(s): Lynsey Addario, photojournalist, Istanbul, Turkey Maneesh Agrawala, computer vision technologist, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Timothy Barrett, papermaker, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Mark Bradford, mixed media artist, Los Angeles, CA Edwidge Danticat, novelist, Miami, FL Rackstraw Downes, painter, New York, NY Esther Duflo, economist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Deborah Eisenberg, short story writer, New York, NY Lin He, molecular biologist, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Peter Huybers, climate scientist, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA James Longley, filmmaker, Daylight Factory, Seattle, WA L. Mahadevan, applied mathematician, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Heather McHugh, poet, University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, WA Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter, Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS Rebecca Onie, health services innovator, Project HEALTH, Boston, MA Richard Prum, ornithologist, Yale University, New Haven, CT John A. Rogers, applied physicist, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, Urbana, IL Elyn Saks, mental health lawyer, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA Jill Seaman, infectious disease physician, Old Fangak, Sudan Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Daniel Sigman, biogeochemist, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Mary Tinetti, geriatric physician, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Camille Utterback, digital artist, San Francisco, CA Theodore Zoli, bridge engineer, HNTB Corporation, New York, NY People Who Make a Difference | 23
Page 1 and 2: Philanthropy Annual
Page 3 and 4: contents Commentary & Opinion 47 |
Page 5 and 6: Top Stories in the News | 3
Page 7 and 8: TopStoriesintheNews economically di
Page 9 and 10: TopStoriesintheNews U.S. Secretary
Page 11 and 12: TopStoriesintheNews nonprofit group
Page 13 and 14: TopStoriesintheNews the one authori
Page 15 and 16: TopStoriesintheNews 2010: Preview o
Page 17 and 18: PeOple Who Make a Difference n a ye
Page 19 and 20: Changes in Leadership 2009 Changes
Page 21 and 22: Changes in Leadership 2009 PATRICK
Page 23: Prize Philanthropy AWARDS and Recip
Page 27 and 28: Prize Philanthropy AWARDS and Recip
Page 29 and 30: 09 Award Given By Name of Award 200
Page 31 and 32: The NonProfit Times 2009 Power & In
Page 33 and 34: Karen Pittman Chief Executive Offic
Page 35 and 36: PND: Are people who had been displa
Page 37 and 38: For more interviews visit http://fo
Page 39 and 40: kids represents our resistance to c
Page 41 and 42: to community may be the most import
Page 43 and 44: For more interviews visit JW: First
Page 45 and 46: For More “5 Questions For...” V
Page 47 and 48: For More “5 Questions For...” V
Page 49 and 50: will generate new leaders from all
Page 51 and 52: For More Commentary & Opinion visit
Page 53 and 54: For More Commentary & Opinion visit
Page 55 and 56: Books FIND MORE BOOKS WITH THE CATA
Page 57 and 58: Periodicals Professionals working i
Page 59 and 60: For PND’s Blogroll, visit philant
Page 61 and 62: Online Reports continued Foundation
Page 63 and 64: Forty-four states plus the District
Page 65 and 66: Trends by Region and State in 2007
Page 67 and 68: Recipient Recipient State/Country F
Page 69 and 70: Fou ndation Esta blishments, 2007-2
Page 71 and 72: Fou ndation Ter minations, 2007-200
Page 73 and 74: 50 Largest Gr a ntm a k ing Pu blic
Page 75 and 76:
50 Largest Fou ndations by Tota l G
Page 77 and 78:
Top Fou ndations by Assets, c.2007
Page 79 and 80:
Page 81 and 82:
Page 83 and 84:
Page 85 and 86:
Page 87 and 88:
contents Foundation Center 86 Coope
Page 89 and 90:
Foundation Center Cooperating Colle
Page 91 and 92:
Page 93 and 94:
Page 95 and 96:
Page 97 and 98:
Page 99 and 100:
Nonprofit Academic Centers georgia
Page 101 and 102:
Nonprofit Academic Centers Universi
Page 103 and 104:
Regional Associations of Grantmaker
Page 105 and 106:
Grantmaker Affinit y Groups Grantma
Page 107 and 108:
Other Nonprofit Support Organizatio
Page 109 and 110:
Philanthropy Periodical Editors The
Page 111 and 112:
© 2010 The Foundation Center Libra
show all

Download Philanthropy Annual PDF - Foundation Center

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?