Grants and Gifts

• Tuskegee University, the historically black educational institution in Alabama, is among a consortium of universities sharing in a five-year, $9.6 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to increase agricultural food production and security in northern India.

• American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee, received a $900,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis for its African American Lectionary Project.

• Central State University, the historically black educational institution in Wilberforce, Ohio, is participating in a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation that will seek to develop sustainable agricultural practices in the Sahel region of Africa, just south of the Sahara Desert. Ohio State University, the University of California at Merced and the University of Thies in Senegal will also be involved in the project.

• The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund received a $200,000 grant from United Student Funds Inc. The grant will be used for scholarships for students attending the 47 black colleges and universities that are members of the fund.

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