Grant Award for Polio Vaccine Research

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a $761,000 grant for a polio vaccine research. A professor at the University of Central Florida is the recipient of the grant intended to develop a needle-free polio vaccine. Grant recipient Henry Daniell will use the money to create a less expensive and more effective vaccine than those currently [...]

Bed Bugs Grant Awarded by EPA

New York, New York — In order to educate at least 50 low income communities in New Jersey, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $100,000 grant to Rutgers University. In addition to the educational outreach program to be implemented, the grant will also be used to set up a model Integrated Pest [...]

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Helps Nursing-Related Patient Outcomes

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is dedicated to advancing environmental conservation and scientific research around the world, as well as helping to improve the quality of life in its homeland for more than 70 years, San Francisco Bay Area. The foundation is devoted to the inspirational vision articulated by its founders: “creating positive outcomes [...]

Developing Countries to Benefit from Hewlett Foundation

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation believes that the world of the 21st century is a study of contrasts. Despite rapid economic growth in some countries, more than 2.7 billion people or 40 percent of the world’s population live in extreme poverty. This is why the Global Development Program of the foundation was created. Based [...]

David and Lucille Packard Foundation Awards $250,000 Grant Money

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, one of the largest U.S. grantmaking foundations ranked according to its market value of assets, has awarded a huge amount of grant this year to a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization. The grant recipient, Center for Public Integrity, aims to produce original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make [...]

National Endowment for the Arts Approve Digital Media Grants for Video Games

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has just announced that its organization will be awarding grants geared in the proliferation of digital media, more specifically in the arena of video game development. NEA’s grant category of The Arts on Radio and Television has been replaced with The Arts in Media. It focuses in intensifying [...]

Knight Foundation Recognizes Outstanding Innovation Projects

Cambridge, MA — Knight News Challenge has awarded grants to 12 media innovation projects on June 16, 2010 as a part of the fourth round of the five- year international contests. With a total of $2.74 million, this year’s winners were mostly business and private enterprises. One of the winning ideas was a mapping tool [...]

People with Disabilities Can Hope for Improved Service Access

Mass. — Five Eastern Massachusetts nonprofit organizations received $55,000 grant money for improving accessibility of services for the benefit of people with disabilities. The philanthropic arm of Verizon, Verizon Foundation, partnered with the said foundations to open doors of opportunity for people with disabilities. Donna Cupelo, Verizon region president of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, said [...]

Million Worth of Funding Allocated for Drainage Improvements

Washington, DC- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded the City of McAllen more than $1.35 million to help to alleviate flooding by improving the drainage system. In a statement given by Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas, the flooding has long been an issue ever since. He is aware that this environmental problem has [...]

Harvard Student Projects Win $50,000 To Support Innovation

Cambridge, Mass. – March 9, 2011 – Student entrepreneurs in Harvard have won $50,000 in grants to support further development of innovative ventures in the Harvard College Innovation Challenge (I3). Five teams were selected as winners and runners-up from an applicant pool of 84 teams—double the number of hopefuls in last year’s contest—for projects ranging [...]