Grants

• Xavier University, the historically black educational institution in New Orleans which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, received a $100,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation to develop a master plan for its campus.

• Bethune-Cookman University, the historically black educational institution in Daytona Beach, Florida, received a $100,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation for the development of its Project Pericles civic engagement course.

• The department of African-American studies at Syracuse University received a $223,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for its Gender and Environmental Justice project. The grant will support a lecture series and an environmental health symposium next spring. The grant will also be used to support research in the field of environmental justice.

• Columbia University received a $91,219 grant from the Ford Foundation to develop a prototype of its Amistad Digital Resource for Teachers. The multimedia resource will be available free online to K-12 teachers who want to integrate African-American history into their curriculum.

• The United Negro College Fund received a $1 million grant from the Bush Foundation and a $1 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The grant money will be used to support the organization’s Institute for Capacity Building which seeks to boost enrollments, particularly among black males, at UNCF member institutions.

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