Afterward, 16 students came consistently for the year, he says.That success helped earn a grant for a suicide prevention program, which along with the students' work is bringing an average of 35 students a week to the center.
Marco Gualazzini earned a grant for his photo essay on the M23 military faction in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Tomas van Houtryve also won a grant for his proposal for a story on the use of drones to target enemy combatants.
This will feature an oversized prosthetic arm that commuters can "high five" to give 50p to a charity.Chip In is one of several projects that have earned a grant from the Innovation in Giving Fund, overseen by Nesta, Britain's innovation foundation, and part of a £34m ($51m) package from the Cabinet Office to foster social action and spending.
Burkholder was a thin biochemist who'd graduated from Johns Hopkins, earned a grant from the National Science Foundation, and spent his time engaged in investigations of Antarctic fauna and lasers, but seemingly one of his last scientific investigations into the chemistry of a potent PCP derivative PCPy (alternately called rolicyclidine or PHP) ended in his disastrous August 4 delirium.
In July 2015, Ruffin won first place in the Start Something Challenge competition, earning a $10,000 business grant.
So does former professional basketball player Will Allen, who has since become a pioneer in the urban farming movement, earning a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in the process.
Edison Township and the nonprofit Edison Memorial Tower Corporation have raised $410,000 to restore the crumbling Art Deco monument, surpassing their fund-raising goal by more than $30,000 just in time to earn a federal grant.
Mr. Hallsson, 33, a self-described conceptual artist, earned a Chinati grant after a career in Iceland and other parts of Europe, where he once placed a hot tub on a street in Germany and invited pedestrians to take a dip.
I have successfully earned a postdoctoral grant, but need more publications in order to compete for an academic/research position.
Soljacic has already earned a $500,000 genius grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for his work, but Giler said the technology is at least a year away.
