Grantee Directory

Grantee
Grant Type
Amount
Year

The Colburn School

The Herbert Zipper Scholars Program - To provide comprehensive, advanced music instruction and pe ...
The Herbert Zipper Scholars Program - To provide comprehensive, advanced music instruction and performance experiences for talented young musicians, ages 8-18, from low-income backgrounds.
Artistic Advancement
$250,000
2013

The Jemicy School, Inc.

Financial Aid and Outreach - To provide tuition scholarships for twice-exceptional, low- to moder ...
Financial Aid and Outreach - To provide tuition scholarships for twice-exceptional, low- to moderate-income students.
Twice Exceptional Grants
$120,000
2013

The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership

Extreme Journey Summer Camp - To enable JTHG to offer scholarships to Loudoun County low- to mode ...
Extreme Journey Summer Camp - To enable JTHG to offer scholarships to Loudoun County low- to moderate-income middle school students to participate in Extreme Journey Summer Camp, an immersive historical investigation of American history. Additionally, the grant will enable JTHG to expand the program to offer two camp sessions in summer 2013.
Good Neighbor Grant
$20,000
2013

The University of Iowa Foundation, on behalf of the Belin-Blank Center

Financial Aid & Outreach - To ensure that twice-exceptional students receive the opportunity to a ...
Financial Aid & Outreach - To ensure that twice-exceptional students receive the opportunity to attend enrichment summer programs and the faculty and staff have the support needed to ensure that twice-exceptional students have the maximum academic and social-emotional experience.
Twice Exceptional Grants
$40,000
2013

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz

Jazz in the Classroom - To support the Jazz in the Classroom program for Washington, DC, public s ...
Jazz in the Classroom - To support the Jazz in the Classroom program for Washington, DC, public schools. The program will offer professional instrument training and performance opportunities for 825 students in master classes and specialized lessons, customized consultation for band directors in three high schools, and professional development for teachers to deliver the National Jazz Curriculum to nearly 4,500 students ages 9-18.
Good Neighbor Grant
$30,000
2013

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt Summer Academy and Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young - To provide enrichmen ...
Vanderbilt Summer Academy and Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young - To provide enrichment programming to high-need students through accelerated summer learning experiences, courses at the weekend academy, and college planning support. Also to offer outreach programming focusing on poverty and gifted students to school personnel and community leaders.
Academic Achievement
$250,000
2013

Equal Opportunity Schools

Increasing student access and success in AP/IB courses - To support the expansion of the program ...
Increasing student access and success in AP/IB courses - To support the expansion of the program to 10 new schools in Santa Clara County, California, and throughout Delaware as the first half of a matching grant that will be completed by local funding. The grant will enable EOS to find at least 1,000 missing high-ability, low-income students.
Advanced Learning
$75,000
2012

Foster Care to Success

Scholarships and Program Support - To provide scholarships, study abroad and internship stipends ...
Scholarships and Program Support - To provide scholarships, study abroad and internship stipends to students and to support administrative aspects of the program.
College Access and Success
$250,000
2012

Harmony Project

The Academy at Harmony Project - To support the Academy within Harmony Project to allow us to bet ...
The Academy at Harmony Project - To support the Academy within Harmony Project to allow us to better nurture the talents of Harmony Project students who demonstrate exceptional musical talent and drive.
Artistic Advancement
$249,918
2012

KIPP Foundation

Outreach Support - To support organizations across the country that offer middle-school students ...
Outreach Support - To support organizations across the country that offer middle-school students with financial need the chance to realize the highest levels of achievement in arts and academics. In addition to supporting these services for exceptional low-income students, each grantee identifies outstanding prospective candidates for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Young Scholars Program.
Outreach Grants
$500,000
2012

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