Wellesley College - Office for Resources: Corporate and Foundation Grants

Grants from corporations and foundations are an important source of support. If you are associated with a foundation or corporation that is interested in making a gift to Wellesley College, please call or e-mail Karen Ossen, Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at 781-283-2261 or kossen@wellesley.edu.

The following list is a sampling of institutional grants greater than $50,000 that were recently awarded to Wellesley College:

In April 2009, the College received a second $50,000 grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation to provide continued funding for the Osher Reentry Scholarship Program for incoming Davis Degree Scholars.

In April 2009, the Joseph Drown Foundation awarded the College a grant of $50,000 to provide financial aid to our students, with preference for students from California.

In July 2009, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded the College a three-year $300,000 grant in support of Dr. Peggy Levitt's research on the impact of Diasporas on reforming institutions in China and India.

In January 2009, the Starr Foundation made an additional $50,000 grant to augment the C.V. Starr Scholarship Fund.

In September 2008, the College received a three-year $225,000 grant from the Whitehall Foundation in support of Dr. Bevil Conway's work on the study of color perception in the primate cortex.

Wellesley was selected in June 2007 to receive a three-year Beckman Scholars Program Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Supporting student research in Biological Sciences and Chemistry, this grant enables four Wellesley College students to undertake cutting edge scientific inquiry over a fifteen month period, which covers an academic year and the previous and subsequent summers.

Wellesley College has received a $150,000 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation's Summer Stipend Program in the Sciences. The three-year grant will fund a total of thirty summer research positions for rising sophomores and juniors--allowing more Wellesley College students to engage in scientific research early in their academic careers.

In 2008, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded Wellesley College a $1.2 million four-year grant to support various aspects of the College's science program. This award was the sixth such award from the institute since 1988.

The Clare Boothe Luce program, administered by the Henry Luce Foundation, has been instrumental in providing private support for women in science, mathematics and engineering. In July 2008, Wellesley received a five-year, $595,110 grant to establish a Clare Boothe Luce Professorship for newly appointed female science faculty member. Dr. Orit Shaer has been hired for this new position, and she will join the Computer Science department in spring 2009.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded Wellesley a three year grant of $100,000 to establish a presidential discretionary fund. This support will be used for an examination of what the College must do to ensure that a Wellesley education is recognized widely by the next generation of talented young women as not only affordable and accessible, but distinctive and relevant to the lives they will lead and the leaders they will become in the 21st century.

In March 2008, Wellesley College received a four-year $300,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enhance the Environmental Studies program. This interdisciplinary program gives students the knowledge and skills to analyze environmental problems and recommend possible solutions. The grant has enabled the College to hire an Environmental Studies Program Coordinator.

In February 2007, Wellesley College was selected by the Merck Institute for Science Education and the American Association for the Advancement of Science for a Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program Award. This three-year $60,000 grant is enabling the College to implement an interdisciplinary summer research fellowship program for twelve talented students majoring in the biological sciences, chemistry or biological chemistry.

In May 2008, the Teagle Foundation awarded a three-year $196,000 grant to Wellesley College to support the continued work on the New England Consortium on Assessment and Student Learning. Led by Wellesley College Sociology Professor Lee Cuba, and in collaboration with six other colleges and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the project is exploring how students learn and how they made important decisions about their academic programs.

Wellesley College was selected for funding by the U.S Department of Education under its Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language program. The two-year $166,144 grant, awarded in April 2008, will provide support for the continued development of the South Asia Studies program.

The I.N. and Susanna H. Van Nuys Foundation created an endowed Library Fund at the College in 1950. Each year, this foundation adds approximately $80,000 to this special fund, which provides ongoing support to the Margaret Clapp Library, the Book Arts Laboratory, and the Annis Press.

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