STRIVE Boston Employment Service
To train and place Boston ex-offenders in jobs, and help ten ex-offender graduates enroll in post-secondary education.
Archives Grants
Universidad Diego Portales
To publish, disseminate and publicize the seventh annual report on human rights in Chile, and to support the newly established Human Rights Center.
University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
To create a widely accepted and feasible plan for creation of an Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse to foster collaboration and information-sharing among state and local governments implementing industrial chemicals management policies.
University of Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese
To retain Goodman Media to create an enhanced public relations strategy that will translate into greater fundraising success, thereby improving the institute’s likelihood of long-term financial sustainability.
Vermont Housing & Conservation Board
To host a national conference on farm viability and success for state program directors and coordinators from service provider organizations.
Harvard University
To study functional analyses of a neural circuit regulating olfactory learning by John Merck Scholar Yun Zhang.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
To support Russell Ferland’s research into environment-genetic interactions and risk factors in autism.
University of California, San Francisco
To support research by John Merck Scholar finalist Susan Voglmaier on the developmental regulation of glutamate release in cells and circuits.
University of Massachusetts/Amherst
To research how selective attention deficits contribute to language processing disorders by John Merck Scholar Lisa Sanders.
University of Oregon
To support research by John Merck Scholar Finalist Michael Wehr on cortical balance of excitation and inhibition during development in autism.