New York City Employment and Training Coalition
To organize community-based organizations, community colleges, and other coalition members to advocate for more effective workforce development and welfare-to-work policies.
Archives Grants
Pioneer Valley Rebuilders CDC
To prepare and place nine ex-offenders in entry-level, living wage jobs in construction.
Science Communication Network
To broaden and deepen accurate media coverage of environmental health science and policy issues.
Snake River Alliance Education Fund
To conduct research, education, and community advocacy to protect Idaho’s people, water and economy by promoting responsible cleanup of nuclear waste and contamination.
STRIVE Boston Employment Service
To place ex-offenders from the Suffolk House of Corrections and the Roxbury STRIVE program in jobs.
University of Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese
To promote visibility and strengthening viability of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese through enhanced public relations.
World Resources Institute
To support the adoption and implementation of progressive climate change policies by demonstrating that major companies can thrive in a carbon-constrained economy.
California Institute of Techology
To support research by John Merck Scholar finalist John O’Doherty.
University of California, Berkeley
To support research by John Merck Scholar Kristin Scott on the modulation of taste perception by hunger.
University of Pennsylvania
To support research by John Merck Scholar finalist Sara Jaffee.