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Grants for Libraries & Information Services Sloan—NEW YORK
organizing three convenings focused on challenges faced by New York
City and possible opportunities for innovative solutions to them.
1636. City Futures, City Limits, Center for Urban Future, New York, NY.
$50,000, 2010. Toward convening New York City’s real estate and art
communities to consider mutually beneficial real estate arrangements
for artists affected by the current economic climate, based on proposals
in Time To Be Creative report.
1637. Foundation Center, New York, NY. $100,000, 2010. Toward building
global data platform for philanthropy that will enhance accessibility of
information on philanthropic activity around the world.
1638. Foundation Center, New York, NY. $55,000, 2010. For general support
of mission to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge
about U.S. philanthropy.
1639. Global Healthcare Information Network, Charlbury, England. $50,000,
2010. 1.25-year grant. For project to develop monitoring and evaluation
framework and process for Health Information for All by 2015 (HIFA2015)
online network, which is committed to promoting access to reliable
healthcare information for healthcare providers in developing countries.
1640. GuideStar International, London, England. $77,000, 2010. 2-year
grant. For continuing development of Guidestar India, searchable online
database that provides philanthropic sector in India with better access
to information on credible non-government organizations.
1641. GuideStar USA, Williamsburg, VA. $25,000, 2010. For general support
of mission to revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice by
providing information that advances transparency in the philanthropic
sector, enables users to make better decisions and encourages
charitable giving.
1642. Microfinance Information Exchange, Washington, DC. $187,600, 2010.
To collaborate with Global Impact Investing Network to develop
data-sharing platform that will enable exchange of performance data on
microfinance and the broader field of impact investing to lead to better
outcomes for poor and vulnerable populations.
1643. New York Academy of Medicine, International Society for Urban Health,
New York, NY. $120,000, 2010. Toward travel and other associated
support for participants from developing countries to attend 9th
International Conference on Urban Health, to be held in New York City.
1644. Pamoja Media East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. $89,950, 2010. 1.75-year
grant. To develop online and mobile social networking platform to build
agricultural capacity among new generation of farmers in Kenya.
1645. Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY. $543,600, 2010.
2.25-year grant. For project, in connection with Rockefeller Foundation’s
centennial in 2013, to develop web-based multimedia history of the
Foundation and make its primary documents and historic materials more
broadly accessible to diverse communities of researchers and educators
interested in 20th century history.
1646. South African Health Informatics Association, Durban, South Africa.
$120,000, 2010. Toward supporting 13th World Congress on Medical
and Health Informatics: Partnerships for Effective eHealth Solutions to
be held in Cape Town, South Africa, including support for participation of
health informatics researchers and practitioners from developing
countries and coordination of the eHealth Innovators Awards.
1647. University of Ghana, School of Public Health, Legon, Ghana. $167,700,
2010. 1.25-year grant. To enhance health informatics curriculum and
establish Health Informatics Society that will promote development of
health informatics capacities that leverage eHealth to improved access
to health services in Ghana.
1648. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Faculty of Science and Agriculture,
Westville, South Africa. $600,000, 2010. 3-year grant. Toward
establishing Health Enterprise Architecture Laboratory (HEAL), research
laboratory focused on application of enterprise architecture and health
informatics to low-resource settings.
The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.
Limitations: Giving limited to New York City. No support for education. No
grants to individuals, or for scholarships, fellowships, or film or video
projects.
1649. Lifetime Arts, Pelham, NY. $34,000, 2010. For Creative Aging in Our
Communities, The New York Public Libraries Project.
1650. North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Westbury, NY.
$20,000, 2010. For Telemedicine Program Targeting Seniors with
Congestive Heart Failure in Queens.
1651. Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, NY. $103,000, 2010.
For AdvantAge Online.
The Scherman Foundation, Inc.
Limitations: Giving in NY and nationally in all areas, except for the arts and
social welfare, which are primarily in New York City. No support for
colleges, universities, or other higher educational institutions. No grants
to individuals, or for building or endowment funds, capital campaigns
scholarships, fellowships, conferences or symposia, specific media or
arts production, medical, science or engineering research.
1652. Housing Court Answers, New York, NY. $35,000, 2010. For general
support.
The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
(formerly Sharp Foundation)
Limitations: Giving primarily in New York, NY. No grants to individuals.
1653. Frick Collection, New York, NY. $400,000, 2009. For general support.
1654. New York Public Library, New York, NY. $125,000, 2009. For
Webcasting Program.
1655. New York Public Library, New York, NY. $50,000, 2009. For Computer
Page Program.
The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
Limitations: Giving limited to the U.S. No grants to individuals, or for capital or
endowment funds, conduit organizations, renovation projects, media (TV,
radio or film), audience development, direct subsidy of reduced-price
admissions, no loans.
1656. Foundation Center, New York, NY. $15,000, 2010. For general support.
1657. New York Public Library, New York, NY. $35,000, 2010. For general
support for Library for the Performing Arts.
Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation
Limitations: Giving primarily in NY. No grants to individuals.
1658. Action Without Borders, New York, NY. $20,985, 2010.
1659. Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY. $11,000, 2010.
1660. Mount Kisco Public Library, Mount Kisco, NY. $10,700, 2010.
1661. New York Public Library, New York, NY. $20,000, 2010.
1662. Ossining Public Library, Ossining, NY. $21,953, 2010.
William E. Simon Foundation, Inc.
(formerly William E. & Carol G. Simon Foundation, Inc.)
Limitations: Giving on a national basis, with emphasis on New York, NY, and
Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. No support for foreign
charities. No grants to individuals.
1663. Harding Township Public Library, New Vernon, NJ. $20,000, 2009.
Singh Family Foundation
Limitations: Giving primarily in New York, NY. No grants to individuals.
1664. New York Public Library, New York, NY. $1,000,000, 2010. For general
support.
Skirball Foundation
Limitations: Giving primarily in CA. No grants to individuals.
1665. Center for Jewish History, New York, NY. $25,000, 2009. For operating
support.
Joseph & Sylvia Slifka Foundation, Inc.
Limitations: Giving primarily in the metropolitan New York, NY, area. No grants
to individuals.
1666. New York Public Library, New York, NY. $100,000, 2010. For general
operating support.
1667. New York Public Library, New York, NY. $100,000, 2010. For general
operating support.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Limitations: Giving primarily focused on U.S. institutions with occasional grants
to foreign institutions. No support for non-profit institutions, or for
creative or performing arts (except for those that educate the public
about science), humanities, religion, or primary or secondary education,
or for projects aimed at pre-college students. No grants to individuals
(except for research and publication), or for endowment or building funds,
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