Ford Foundation Challenge Grant To The Initiatives For Women (Ifw) Announced
2001 July
Ford Foundation challenge grant to the Initiatives for Women (IFW) announced. The Ford Foundation pledged $80,000 if the IFW can raise $160,000 in new endowed funds by 2004. when the University meets the challenge, the foundation's award will be used to support the endowment to the IFW program for graduate fellowships for women pursuing careers in physical sciences. The endowed awards given out by the IFW in 2001 include the Lillian Barlow Award ($800) to Shirlee Duffort, the Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($1,000) to Limarie Nieves-Rosa, the Gloria R. DeSole Fund for IFW ($1,000) to Joyce Keyes, the Judy L. Genshaft Fund for IFW Scholarship ($500) to Linda Scoville, the Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship ($1,000) to Natalya Grigoryants, The Initiatives for Women Endownment Award ($500) to Shai Brown, the Bernice Mosby Peebles '39 Scholarship Award ($1,000 designated for women of color) to Chrislene Adams, the Physician's Endowment Fund for IFW ($500) to Linda Rodriguez, the Susan Van Horn-Shipherd '64 Women in Science Scholarship ($500) to Suzanne Levine. The named awards given by the IFW in 2001 are the Patrick Foti Award in Memory of R. Thomas Flemming ($500) to Claudine Lochard, the David and Gladys Groudine Award ($500) to Deborah McManamara, the Anne Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and Government ($500) to Alla Reyfman, the Secretarial-Clerical Council IFW Award ($500) to Labrada Pimentel, and the Kathleen A. Turek IFW Technology Award to Rachel Pocino.
Source Details
Greta Petry, "Ford Foundation Awards $80,000 Challenge Grant to Albany's IFW," UAlbany Update, September 14, 2001, p. 4