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Selected Grants

These are just a few of the more than 400 grants we made in 2004. For more information on our grants please visit our Grant Highlights section of our Web site.

Global Health

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria
To support efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria in the developing world.
$50,000,000

Institute for One World Health
To support the development of a novel treatment for diarrhea in infants and children in the developing world.
$46,070,160

Johns Hopkins University
To support the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS-TB Epidemic (CREATE), which will conduct research on urgently needed strategies to control TB in communities with high HIV infection rates.
$44,651,305

National Academy of Sciences
To enable African scientific communities to provide policy advice in the public interest.
$20,000,000

Voluntary Health Services
To reduce the spread of HIV infection among female sex workers and their clients in Tamil Nadu, India.
$12,978,870

Education

Council of Chief State School Officers
To provide states with sophisticated, Web-based data tools that will strengthen accountability and improve results through data-driven decision making.
$25,000,000

Portland Community College
To support existing and develop new College Bound sites to support at-risk youth.
$6,997,047

Achieve, Inc.
To assist strategic states and to encourage all states to put in place high school graduation requirements that align with college entry requirements.
$4,095,931

National Council of La Raza
To create new early college charter high schools and redesign existing charter high schools.
$3,632,666

University System of Georgia Foundation Inc.
To support the development and implementation of six Early Colleges in Georgia for students underserved in traditional high schools.
$2,000,000

Global Libraries

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
To support workshops on sustaining public access computing in rural libraries in all 50 states.
$6,849,383

Direccion de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (DIBAM)
To provide 100 public access computers in the new Biblioteca de Santiago (Santiago Public Library) and create 13 mobile laboratories to serve remote areas in each region of the country.
$998,578

Office of the Secretary of State Illinois State Library
To support public access computing sustability efforts in Illinois public libraries including upgrading computer labs in high-poverty communities and expanding training opportunities for public library staff statewide.
$662,400

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
To support an outreach program to make the library and technology programs more accessible to Spanish-speaking patrons.
$471,900

Florida State University Research Foundation
To support a national survey of public libraries and public access computing in the United States to better understand and communicate the library's role in providing access to the Internet and the impact this service has on the community.
$303,893

Pacific Northwest

Asian Counseling and Referral Service
To support a capital campaign for a multi-service center serving immigrants and refugees living in King County of Washington state.
$1,000,000

Consejo Counseling & Referral Service
To support the construction of Villa Esperanza, a new 23-unit transitional housing facility in Federal Way, Washington with supportive services for homeless families to help them stabilize and become more self-sufficient.
$632,500

YMCA of Greater Seattle
To support an advanced computer skills training and GED completion program for high school dropouts in Seattle, Washington.
$480,946

The Potlatch Fund
To support capacity-building and training for Native American nonprofit organizations in Washington and Oregon.
$300,000

Chelan-Douglas Community Action Council
To support a capital campaign including a food bank, Head Start center, and family support services in Wenatchee, Washington.
$285,000