Gifts & Grants

The Bayer Foundation has awarded a three-year grant of $126,255 to establish a residential summer Creek Connections Camp for high school students on Allegheny's campus. Creek Connections Camp will use the nationally acclaimed French Creek watershed as a laboratory to provide rising 10th- and 11th-grade students with a comprehensive series of laboratory and field experiences. Students will learn the fundamentals of aquatic ecology and watershed science by engaging in authentic research and presenting their results to their peers in a scientific research symposium format.

The Dr. and Mrs. Arthur William Phillips Charitable Trust has approved a grant in the amount of $50,000 to support library renovations to create a permanent home for the Learning Commons. The Learning Commons provides students with ready access to research, communication, tutorial, and technology assistance, as well as a social space where academic endeavors are advanced.

The Graduate School of Public Management at the George Washington University, with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, has awarded the Center for Political Participation at Allegheny College a grant of $159,078. The CPP will use the funds to support a nonpartisan project to register 18- to 29-year-old voters in the 2006 election cycle. The CPP will recruit and train student leaders at thirty community colleges in Ohio and Pennsylvania to register 20,000 voters on campus and in their communities through peer-to-peer outreach. The CPP's project is part of a nationwide nonpartisan effort to register 350,000 voters in 2006.

The Max Kade Foundation, Inc. has approved two grants at Allegheny College for the 2006-2007 academic year. The first grant, in the amount of $10,000, will support the Max Kade Writer-in-Residence for 2006. We have invited Hans-Michael Speier from Berlin to assume the residency. The second grant will support exchange programs in Cologne and Tübingen. Thirteen Allegheny students will be provided with travel grants through the generosity of the Max Kade Foundation. In addition, during the recently completed Tradition & Transformation fund-raising campaign, the Max Kade Foundation awarded an unrestricted grant to the College of $500,000.

Allegheny College has been awarded a $25,000 Bonner Leader Program Enrichment Grant from the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation. The Bonner Leader Program provides educational and service opportunities for hundreds of students throughout the country. Funds from our award will support orientation for new Bonner Leaders, a service trip for first-year Bonner Leaders, a service exchange for second-year Bonner Leaders, summer service internships, and a variety of other opportunities.