Grantees

Outcomes and Assessment

May 2013
  • $50,000 over 6 months to the Council for Higher Education Accreditation to continue the New Leadership Alliance’s work to disseminate the publications, Committing to Quality and Assuring Quality
  • One grant of $150,000 over 24 months to develop an assessment tool that captures faculty goals for undergraduate learning.
May 2012
  • One implementation grant of $230,000 over 25 months for a project focused on using data to develop interventions that will improve student learning.

Fresh Thinking

May 2013
  • Two planning grants and four implementation grants of up to $250,000 to collaborative efforts to equip students to address some of the “great questions” of meaning, value, purpose, and personal and social responsibility.
  • One grant of $100,000 to conduct a project to assess the long-term consequences of liberal arts education.
  • A grant of $60,000 to support an examination of the long-term returns on investment for graduates with a liberal arts degree
  • One implementation grant of $150,000 over 28 months to address central concerns facing liberal education today related to: the changing nature of faculty work; how we support that evolving work; and how new ways of work speak to the needs of a changing student body.
February 2013
  • One $85,000 implementation grant over 24 months to a research university to support the preparation of graduate students in the arts and sciences for teaching careers.
  • One $275,000 grant over 36 months to a consortium and one grant of $260,000 to collaboration of institutions to equip students to address some of the “great questions” of meaning, value, purpose, and personal and social responsibility.
November 2012
  • One $280,000 grant over 36 months to a consortium and one grant of $50,000 to a project to equip students to address some of the “great questions” of meaning, value, purpose, and personal and social responsibility.
  • One $40,000 grant over 25 months to a learned society to support the preparation of graduate students for teaching careers.
  • Two implementation grants of $150,000 over a maximum of 25 months to address central concerns facing liberal education today related to: the changing nature of faculty work; how we support that evolving work; and how new ways of work speak to the needs of a changing student body.
May 2012
  • Four implementation grants of $150,000 and one for $200,000 over a maximum of 30 months to address central concerns facing liberal education today related to: the changing nature of faculty work; how we support evolving work; and how new ways of work speak to the needs of a changing student body.
  • Four implementation grants of up to $125,000 over a maximum of 36 months to research institutions to support the preparation of graduate students in the arts and sciences for teaching careers.
February 2012
  • Two implementation grants of $150,000 over a maximum of 27 months to address central concerns facing liberal education today related to: the changing nature of faculty work; how we support that evolving work; and how new ways of work speak to the needs of a changing student body.
  • One $150,000 implementation grant over 27 months to a research university, one grant over 36 months to the Council of Graduate Schools, and one pilot grant to a research university to support the preparation of graduate students in the arts and sciences for teaching careers.

College-Community Connections

November 2012
  • One grant of $25,000 over 18 months for college preparatory programming for ninth-grade students
May 2012
  • The Foundation recognizes that multiple efforts are necessary to ensure that all students are prepared for, and have access to, college. The Foundation has therefore funded a number of ambitious college preparatory programs over the years.
February 2012
  • Ten grants of $270,000 and one grant of $180,000 over 22 to 37 months for partnerships between community-based organizations and higher education institutions in the New York City metropolitan area.
  • One grant of $50,000 over 24 months for college preparatory programming.

Special Grants

November 2012
  • The following grants have been issued to New York-area colleges and universities and community-based organizations to supply immediately needed resources as well as assist with volunteer efforts to affected areas.

    Carl V. Bini Memorial Fund: $10,000
    Children of Bellevue: $15,000
    Habitat for Humanity: $10,000
    Henry Street Settlement: $15,000
    Police Athletic League: $10,000
    Red Hook Initiative: $10,000 
    Rutgers University: $10,000
    Salvation Army: $15,000
    SUNY Old Westbury College Foundation: $10,000
    Visiting Nurses Service of New York: $10,000
    Wagner College: $10,000

Past Grants