Grants
America's Promise Alliance
The Foundation is pleased to award one of its first grants, in the amount of $1 million, to America's Promise Alliance for use in leveraging its 200-strong partner network to expand the teaching of financial literacy and related civic activities for middle and high school students around the country.
Be the Change, Inc.
As a start-up itself, the Foundation is pleased to provide start-up non-profit be the Change, Inc. with $250,000 toward the execution of a groundbreaking campaign to inspire the next President and Congress to enact new legislation that will offer all Americans meaningful national service opportunities and boost civic engagement.
Center for the Study of the Presidency
With a $700,000 grant from the Foundation, the Center for the Study of the Presidency will continue to organize and execute a Comprehensive Net Assessment (CNA) to help inform President Barack Obama and members of Congress on how to address the nation's most urgent challenges and address key sustainability issues facing the country.
The Committee for Economic Development
As one of its first grants, the Foundation is pleased to award the Committee for Economic Development (CED) with $1 million to help expand its outreach to the nation's business sector and engage the sector in a dialogue about the critical financial challenges threatening the U.S. economy, including growing entitlement spending, rising health care costs, debt and deficits.
Common Good/NewTalk.org
The Foundation is pleased to award Common Good, in partnership with NewTalk.org, a grant for $45,000 to support the development and operation of NewTalk.org's series of online conversations about America's fiscal future and a broader but related conversation regarding entitlement reform.
The Concord Coalition
The Foundation is pleased to award the Concord Coalition $1.5 million to expand its highly acclaimed Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, an urgent, bipartisan call for changes to America's fiscal policies in the tradition of Paul Revere. The Tour's town-hall meetings promote a dialogue about tough choices with respect to budget controls, entitlement reform, spending reprioritization and constraint, and tax reform. These meetings are featured in the critically acclaimed documentary IOUSA, which arrived in theatres in summer 2008.
Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions, Emory University
With a $600,000 grant provided by PGPF, the Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions at Emory University is establishing a Center for Entitlement Reform, focusing on conducting research and analysis related to health care in order to (a) outline the factors responsible for the rise in federal entitlement spending; (b) link new approaches in financing, payment and care delivery for achieving better value (lower costs with the same or better outcomes) based on factors driving higher spending; and (c) present the options to key policy makers in Congress and the White House, along with state-level governments, business leaders, the public and the media.
Institute of Medicine
The Foundation is pleased to award the Institute of Medicine a grant of $945,000 to define opportunities to reduce the costs of health care in the United States by hosting a series of meetings at the National Academies aimed at: (a) fostering insight and agreement on the most important elements of value in health care; (b) reducing waste and inefficiency in the health care system; and (c) improving the focus on delivering care proven to work. It is anticipated that these meetings will contribute to a clearer understanding of some of the specific ways in which current health care costs can be reduced, without compromising — and even improving — the health outcomes for Americans.
Mobilize.org
The foundation is pleased to award $254,000 to Mobilize.org to organize a Democracy 2.0 Grant Summit in Chicago, IL which will convene 150 millennials to examine the barriers preventing the millennial generation from achieving financial health. Mobilize.org is an all-partisan organization that improves the way Democracy works by investing in millennial driven solutions. More information about Mobilize.org and our Summit can be found at www.mobilize.org.
The National Academy of Public Administration and PETLab
With a $325,000 inaugural grant from the Foundation, the National Academy of Public Administration and PETLab, a joint initiative of Parsons The New School for Design and the nonprofit Games for Change, will develop a "Big Fiscal Game" to be played on the physical space of college campuses around the country. The game, designed to be played by 30 to 500 students at a time, will educate them about the extent and causes of the country's looming fiscal crisis, and will model the policy and budget trade-offs involved.
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
The Foundation is pleased to award one of its inaugural grants, in the amount of $295,000, to the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to support its development of a set of curricula for low-income elementary and secondary school students that will increase their financial literacy and teach them to create personal financial plans.
Nuclear Threat Initiative
With a $3 million grant from the Foundation, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is establishing the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS), a new international organization to help nuclear security practitioners implement more effective and efficient security programs for nuclear materials in use, storage, and transit. WINS will be developed with the goal of implementing new international measures to secure highly enriched plutonium and uranium and to contain related nuclear terrorism threats. This program will complement and supplement the efforts of IAEA, its member states and other global initiatives, and will seek to create a first line of accountability with facility operators.
Public Agenda
In one of its first grants, the Foundation is awarding $500,000 to Public Agenda to support the expansion of its initiative titled "Students Face up to the Nation's Finances," a package of learning materials designed to raise college students' awareness of our national fiscal challenges and engage them in a discussion of the solutions. The materials, which will be provided to at least 500 colleges and universities, can be adopted as mini-courses within existing classes. Intensive work with four colleges, to be identified during the first year of the project, will yield even more innovative uses of the materials.
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