{"id":69,"date":"2009-06-03T10:34:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T10:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huangshizhaopin.com\/news\/2009\/06\/03\/saint-peters-receives-private-grants-from-national-and-local-organizations\/"},"modified":"2013-02-01T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T19:33:14","slug":"saint-peters-receives-private-grants-from-national-and-local-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huangshizhaopin.com\/news\/2009\/06\/03\/saint-peters-receives-private-grants-from-national-and-local-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Peter&#8217;s Receives Private Grants from National and Local Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many Saint Peter&rsquo;s students, the College&rsquo;s partnerships with a variety of national and local philanthropic organizations play an important role in enriching their college experience and broadening their horizons.&nbsp; This includes funding for scholarships, internships, classroom enhancements, as well as equipment and program grants, all of which contribute significantly to the development of the whole person in the Jesuit tradition.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2008-2009 fiscal year, Saint Peter&rsquo;s was pleased to receive generous support from the following organizations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The George I. Alden Trust<\/strong>, an organization dedicated to the maintenance of philanthropic enterprises with particular interest in educational institutions, which provided $75,000 for SMART classrooms in Pope Lecture Hall.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gladys Brooks Foundation<\/strong>, which provides for the intellectual, moral and physical welfare of people by establishing and supporting non-profit libraries, educational institutions, hospitals and clinics. This organization contributed $200,000 to create an endowed nursing scholarship fund.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Capital One Foundation<\/strong>, an organization committed to strengthening education, empowering youth, and improving neighborhoods, which made a $25,000 gift to the College in support of the <em>Hearts &amp; Minds Scholarship Dinner<\/em>, the All Sports Golf Outing, and the <em>37th Annual Regents Business Symposium<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The E. J. Grassmann Trust<\/strong>, a New Jersey based non-profit organization, which invested an additional $7,500 in the E. J. Grassmann Trust Endowed Scholarship at the College.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Horizon Foundation of New Jersey<\/strong>, which continued its support of Healthing Along in Jersey City, a health education program for local school children, with a grant of $10,000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Jesuit Network for Equitable Excellence (JNEE) in Higher Education<\/strong>, which provided $5,000 for an &ldquo;Access &amp; Equity&rdquo; grant, creating workshops for under-served high school students and their families.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Loyola Foundation<\/strong>, an organization dedicated to overseas Catholic Missionary activities, which invested $50,000 in the William J. Mulcahy, S.J. Annual Scholarship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Italian American Foundation<\/strong>, which contributed $550 to Saint Peter&rsquo;s Italian Club, one of the College&rsquo;s multiple on-campus multicultural organizations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Northfield Bank Foundation<\/strong>, an organization focusing its efforts on projects to support education, health and human services, youth programs, affordable housing and other types of community organizations, which contributed $10,000 to create the Northfield Bank Foundation Scholarship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ACF Petroleum Research Fund<\/strong>, an organization managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or alternate energy at nonprofit institutions, which contributed a $50,000 research grant to the College&rsquo;s department of applied science and technology. The organization also contributed an additional $5,000 for a student research project.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Independent College Fund of New Jersey (ICFNJ)<\/strong> which provided a PURE (Pfizer Undergraduate Research Experience) Science grant to Saint Peter&rsquo;s in the amount of $7,500 for student research opportunities in the College&rsquo;s department of applied science and technology. This organization also provided a grant from BD Health, a global medical technology company, which invested $10,000 toward equipment for Saint Peter&rsquo;s state-of-the-art nursing laboratory.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG)<\/strong>, which contributed $15,000 to the <em>Hearts &amp; Minds Scholarship Dinner<\/em>, benefiting general student scholarships.&nbsp; The company was also awarded the College&rsquo;s first Corporate Citizen Award at the event.<\/li>\n<li><strong>United States Province of the Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) Fund for Ministry<\/strong>, which aims directly at changing public policy, social attitudes, economic structures and institutions that perpetuate poverty and injustice. This organization contributed $3,000 to Project Selma, a social justice program at the College.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Schumann Fund for New Jersey<\/strong>, an organization that focuses on early childhood development, school innovation and environmental protection, which contributed $25,000 to the Urban Youth Research Initiative &ndash; a program that empowers high school students to become social science researchers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The William E. Simon Foundation<\/strong>, which contributed $144,100 to Saint Peter&rsquo;s for the William E. Simon Leadership Development and Sustainability Project.&nbsp; This organization&rsquo;s motive is to strengthen the free enterprise system and the key spiritual values on which it rests: individual freedom, initiative, thrift, self-discipline and faith in God.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Constantinos C. Polychronis Foundation<\/strong>, a non-profit organization that provided a grant of $18,000 to the College to benefit Greek theater, culture and language programming at Saint Peter&rsquo;s.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many Saint Peter&rsquo;s students, the College&rsquo;s partnerships with a variety of national and local philanthropic organizations play an important role in enriching their college experience and broadening their horizons.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-current-students","category-faculty-staff","category-future-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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