 Headlines
Pew Partnership Announces National Program to Share
Successful City Solutions
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Receives
$25 Million Gift
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gives $91.1 Million to
Undergraduate Sciences
Eli Broad Donates $18 Million to California Institute
of Technology
Arnold O. Beckman Donates $14.4 Million to Science
Education in California
1998 Lasker Awards Recognize Medical and Scientific
Achievements
Milken Family Foundation Honors Educators With Awards
Milken Foundation Donates $10 Million for Jewish High
School
University of Southern California's School of Education
Receives $20 Million
David and Lucile Packard Foundation Gives $1.4 Million
to Arts Program in California
$1 Million Donation Provides Home for Emotionally
Troubled Foster Children in California
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PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced
$1.4 million in grants for public schools in Santa Cruz
County, California, to create, strengthen, or expand
offerings in visual art and music.
The School Arts Program will fund 21 projects, some for
entire districts, others for individual schools, in the
1998-99 school year. Most of the grants range from $15,000
to $50,000, but several were larger.
The foundation received 29 proposals requesting $5 million.
It has committed $3 million over two years to the program.
FCnote: The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
(CA) had assets of $7,386,414,000
and made grants totaling $102,778,997 in the year ending
12/31/96.
"$1.4 Million Awarded for Art, Music Programs." San Jose
Mercury News Online 9/16/98.
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