Grants Information
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Programs
- American Art
- American Arts (ACE)
- Asia
- CBL Designated
- CBL Invited
- CBL Visiting Professorship
- Clare Boothe Luce Program
- Democracy, Ethics, and Public Trust
- East and Southeast Asian Archaeology Initiative
- Environment
- Henry R. Luce Professorship Program
- Higher Education
- Indigenous Knowledge
- Luce Fund for Asian Studies
- Luce Fund for Asian Studies (1975-82)
- Luce Fund for Chinese Scholars
- Luce Fund for Scholarship in American Art
- Luce Fund for Southeast Asian Studies
- Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE)
- Luce Scholars
- Public Affairs
- Public Policy
- Religion and Theology
- Religion in International Affairs
- Special Projects
- STEM Convergence
- United States-China Cooperative Research Program
Regions
- Far West Region
- Great Lakes Region
- Mideast Region
- New England Region
- Non-U.S.
- Plains Region
- Rocky Mountain Region
- Southeast Region
- Southwest Region
Years
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
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To support the Higher Education Forward donor collaborative
Amalgamated Foundation|Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Establishing a Dynamic HERS-LUCE STEM Leader Community
Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)|Denver, Colorado, United States
Higher Education Convening
Institute of International Education|New York, New York, United States
To continue an initiative to improve communication and collaboration between state policymakers and higher education leaders.
Institute for Citizens & Scholars|Princeton, New Jersey, United States
For support for higher education programming
American Friends of Prospect Burma|Accord, New York, United States
To support the activities of the Humanities Truck during the COVID-19 pandemic.
American University|Washington, District of Columbia, United States
To support Tribal College and University
technology needs required for reliable on-line instruction during the pandemic
American Indian College Fund|Denver, Colorado, United States
To support the Way Forward, an effort to reimagine higher education in a time of crisis.
Bringing Theory to Practice, Elon University|Elon, North Carolina, United States
To support an internship at the Center for Advancement of Public Action.
Bennington College|Bennington, Vermont, United States
A supplemental grant for Expanding Horizons: The Luce International Seminar for Women Graduate Students in STEM
from the US and East Asia.
Ewha Institute for Leadership Development|Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Humanities Truck: Supplement and Extension
American University|Washington, District of Columbia, United States
To continue and expand a project to support community-engaged research and graduate mentorship.
University of California, Merced|Merced, California, United States
Support for the "Sea Change: Making Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEMM Normative" initiative
American Association for the Advancement of Science|Washington, District of Columbia, United States
To launch a new, public humanities initiative that will provide support to scholars during the COVID-19 pandemic.
American Council of Learned Societies|New York, New York, United States
To support technology required for reliable on-line instruction at Tribal and College Universities
American Indian College Fund|Denver, Colorado, United States
To provide emergency grants to adjunct and other vulnerable MLA members
Modern Language Association|New York, New York, United States
For CBL Scholar COVID-19-related emergency needs, and Xavier’s COVID-19 student emergency fund
Xavier University of Louisiana|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
To support an initiative to explore changing definitions of “America” and “American-ness” in order to inform the development of new curricula and public programming
Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University|Tempe, Arizona, United States
Special Grant of $25,000 to the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences for the Gender Summit18-Africa Conference.
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences|Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Special Grant of $25,000 to the American Associates of the Science and Technology in Society (AA-STS) forum to support the 2020 STS forum Annual Meeting and US-based AA-STS activities.
American Associates of the STS Forum|New York, New York, United States
For the project, "Promoting Trinity's Model of Inclusive Excellence"
Trinity Washington University|Washington, District of Columbia, United States
To plan a new initiative on defining “American-ness.”
Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University|Tempe, Arizona, United States
To support the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s initiatives to increase the participation of women in STEM leadership and entrepreneurship.
National Academy of Sciences|Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education- 30 CBL Undergraduate STEM Research Awards
Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education (SEPCHE)|Radnor, Pennsylvania, United States