Master Grant List Search
| GRANTEE | GRANT AMOUNT | LOCATION | GRANT DATE |
| NYC - Children First Network Pilot Fund for Public Schools |
$1,620,289 | United States | June 2008 |
| To fund Phase II of the Children First Network pilot. | |||
| Program Enhancement Project Breakthrough |
$78,750 | United States | June 2008 |
| To help Breakthrough in their mission to prepare high-potential, low-income Austin ISD students for college. | |||
| Promoting public reporting and transparency of social performance indicators in microfinance Microfinance Information Exchange |
$430,000 | June 2008 | |
| To promote public reporting and transparency of social performance indicators in microfinance through an on-line reporting platform | |||
| Children of Wounded Warriors National Military Family Association |
$52,000 | United States | June 2008 |
| To provide an opportunity for children of wounded soldiers to share their concerns and challenges to help the Army provide programs to meet the needs of these children. | |||
| Camps for Children of the Wounded & Fallen National Military Family Association |
$375,000 | United States | June 2008 |
| To provide camps for children who have had a military parent severely injured or killed in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom to give them the tools to help deal with the stress and changes on the family. | |||
| PATHS After-School and Summer Youth Program Foundation Communities |
$115,000 | United States | June 2008 |
| To fund after-school and summer programming for low-income children at four of Foundation Communities Austin locations. | |||
| Gyan Shala - Quality Education for Slum Children in Ahmedabad Education Support Organisation |
$992,979 | India | June 2008 |
| To fund a unique model, pioneered by Gyan Shala, a highly reputed NGO, for large scale improvement in the primary education of more than 25,000 poor children in the city of Ahmedabad, by supporting the expansion of a very successful program for out-of-school slum children, as well as, children attending municipal schools in this major urban location in India. | |||
| Teen Channel - Ek Mouka Community Learning Initiative CAP Foundation |
$1,003,572 | India | May 2008 |
| To provide academic training for high school completion and employability skills to 9500 adolescents in the cities of Hyderabad and Chennai over 2008-2010 | |||
| XY-Zone Male Involvement Program - Y5 Communities in Schools - Central Texas |
$81,250 | United States | May 2008 |
| To support Communities in Schools' X-Y Zone: Male Involvement Project, which strives to reach and serve young men at six high schools in the Austin Independent School District. | |||
| Supporting AISD's High-Need Schools - Y7 Communities in Schools - Central Texas |
$500,000 | United States | May 2008 |
| To support Austin Independent School District's high-need schools by funding supplemental CIS staff to meet the students' academic and social needs. | |||
| Nationwide Launch of the Continuous School Improvement Service National Center for Educational Achievement |
$750,000 | United States | April 2008 |
| To expand reporting and accessibility of public school data. | |||
| Los Angeles iDivision Performance Management Project Partnership for Los Angeles Schools |
$200,000 | United States | April 2008 |
| To fund the program plan for an accountability and performance management framework for the iDivision network schools and to design an optimal process for back-office functions, which will ultimately be a model for the entire district (LAUSD). | |||
| Indigent Health Care - Y2 People's Community Clinic |
$250,000 | United States | April 2008 |
| To help one of the largest non-profit providers of health care services for low income children in Central Texas maintain their clinic services. | |||
| Common Scholarship Application Data Standards National Scholarship Providers Association |
$50,000 | United States | April 2008 |
| To provide students with better access to scholarships by developing an open, royalty-free specification that defines a standard format for the contents of a scholarship application in order to facilitate the automated sharing of scholarship applications among scholarship providers, universities, and scholarship directories. | |||
| Prince George's County Public Schools Performance Management Implementation Prince George's County Public Schools |
$4,000,000 | United States | April 2008 |
| Grant was provided to implement a system of Performance Management throughout the school district to accelerate student achievement. | |||
| Community Fund Challenge - 2008 United Way Capital Area |
$500,000 | United States | April 2008 |
| To assist United Way in its fundraising abilities and to support the non-profit agencies in the Austin area supported by the United Way. | |||
| Prevention, Healing and Support for Youth, Domestic & Sexual Violence Survivors SafePlace |
$358,000 | United States | March 2008 |
| To fund counseling and prevention services for Central Texas children and families affected by domestic violence, sexual abuse, and dating violence. | |||
| 2008 Annual Campaign Jewish Community Association of Austin |
$1,150,000 | United States | February 2008 |
| To support the JCAA 2008 annual campaign. | |||
| Enabling MFIs to access financing from US retail investors through a web based platform Calvert Foundation |
$1,500,000 | Asia | February 2008 |
| To enable micro-finance institutions to access financing from US retail investors through a web based platform | |||
| AVID Implementation - Y4 Expansion Ysleta ISD |
$204,000 | United States | February 2008 |
| To support implementation of the AVID program in Ysleta ISD. | |||
| Printer Technology Program - 2008 Gifts in Kind International |
$255,000 | United States | February 2008 |
| This grant assists Gifts in Kind in distributing printer cartridges and cables to non-profit organizations in over 30 states. | |||
| Denver Public Schools Performance Management Implementation Denver Public Schools Foundation |
$2,900,000 | United States | February 2008 |
| To provide funding for DPS' Performance Management (PM) Implementation Work which includes 1) School Based Tool Development 2) Central Office Employee Based PM System 3) Development of a Student/Teacher Portal 4) Development of Management Dashboards 5) Communications and Change Management | |||
| Camp Fire After School Program Camp Fire USA Balcones Council |
$22,443 | United States | February 2008 |
| To help fund and expand the Camp Fire after school literacy program in Austin and Round Rock ISDs, as well as a new district, Manor ISD. | |||
| Sunrise Programs Austin Sunshine Camps |
$28,000 | United States | February 2008 |
| To help fund the Sunrise Leadership and Challenge Programs, which addresses study skills, test-taking strategies, tutoring and college planning for a select group of teenagers throughout the school year. | |||
| Community Tax Centers - Y3 Foundation Communities |
$60,000 | United States | February 2008 |
| To support the Community Tax Centers Program, which helps low income Central Texas families access Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) dollars through their federal tax refunds by organizing trained volunteers to offer free tax preparation to qualifying families. | |||
| ACT Project - Assistance with College and Taxes Foundation Communities |
$180,000 | United States | January 2008 |
| To assist economically disadvantaged families with FAFSA completion. | |||
| Fitnessgram Assessment for Texas Children Texas Education Agency |
$350,000 | United States | January 2008 |
| To assess the general health and fitness level of all Texas students in Grades 3-12 using Fitnessgram. | |||
| Shoes for Austin Operating Grant - Y9: Shoes 4 Kids Shoes for Austin |
$55,000 | United States | January 2008 |
| To support the Shoes for Austin program, which provides new, brand name athletic shoes to low-income individuals participating in self-improvement programs though various non-profits in the Austin community. | |||
| Katha – Kathashala as the Centre for Creativity for Government and Municipal Schools (Yr-3) Katha |
$108,094 | India | January 2008 |
| To support a learning program at the main Kathashala School and at Katha learning centers in 11 slum clusters in Delhi that include preschool, primary and secondary sections, and IT and entrepreneurship programs. The program also includes extensive teacher training and community outreach initiatives such as School-on-Wheels, Library-on-Wheels and a reading program in 10 government schools. | |||