Grants and Gifts

The College has received a $500,000 grant from the Max Kade Foundation, Inc., which will be used for construction of the Max Kade International Wing in our new student residence, North Village. This facility will provide apartments for up to fifteen students and a resident advisor/teaching assistant who will provide the students with academic support. We plan to welcome the first student residents in fall 2006.

Additionally, the Max Kade Foundation recently has made two other gifts to the College: a $7,000 grant to support student exchange programs and a grant of $10,000 in support of the 2005 Max Kade Writer-in-Residence. The travel grants will support eight students who are participating in the Cologne/Tuebingen exchange programs during the 2005-2006 academic year. The Writer-in-Residence program has been part of the Allegheny College German program since 1992. Each fall semester the Max Kade Foundation has supported a writer from a German-speaking country to come to Allegheny and teach a course in writing. This year's writer-in-residence is Liane Dirks.

The Center for Political Participation (CPP), directed by Associate Professor of Political Science Dan Shea, recently received two grants. The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development granted funding in the amount of $50,000. This grant will support educational outreach programs for civic education. A congressionally directed grant of $49,600 has been awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to the CPP. This grant, which also will support educational research, represents 32.5 percent of the center's educational outreach budget for the two years of the grant. Non-federal funds—$102,670—compose the remaining 67.5 percent of the budget.

The Community Foundation for the Alleghenies has awarded the College a grant of $25,000 to support LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for the construction of our new residence hall, North Village. Through this grant, Allegheny will have its first LEED-certified building; it will be the first LEED-certified college facility in northwestern Pennsylvania.

The College has received a $25,000 Bonner Leader Program Enrichment Grant from the Corella & Bertram Bonner Foundation. This grant will help to fund a service trip for students in their first year of the Bonner Program, a service exchange for second-year Bonner Leaders, internships, enrichment funds, and other related activities.

The George I. Alden Trust has awarded the College a grant in the amount of $150,000 in support of our Learning Commons. The grant will be applied to construction and renovation of an academic space within the library.