Foundation and Corporate Relations

The Katherine Baxter Memorial Foundation
Purpose: To advance the discourse of philosophical thought through the Philosophy Department at Pomona College, student research, and travel; made possible by The Frederick Sontag Philosophical Fund in Memory of Martin Baxter Ortlieb '50
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
Purpose: Getty Music Department Internships
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Accomplishment: Faculty Fellowship awarded to Lorn Foster, Charles and Henrietta Detoy Professor of American Government and Professor of Politics, for the Haynes Foundation 2nd Baptist Church Archive Preservation Project
Principal Investigator: Lorn Foster

William R. Hearst Foundations
Purpose: Scholarship support through the William Randolph Hearst Scholarship Fund
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

Hilton Hotels Corporation
Purpose: Pomona College Summer Intern Partnership
Contact: Career Development Office

The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
Purpose: Music Department Guitar Program
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

Los Angeles Philanthropic Foundation
Purpose: General scholarship support
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The MacKenzie Foundation
Purpose: Scholarship support for pre-medical students
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

Meltzer Family Foundation
Purpose: Music Library Performance Preservation Project
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

Merck Institute for Science
Purpose: 2007 Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program
Contact: Office of Foundation & Corporate Relations

The Ann Peppers Foundation
Purpose: General Scholarship Support
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The Regence Group
Purpose: Pomona College Summer Internship Program
Contact: Career Development Office

The Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship Fund
Purpose: General scholarship support of the Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The William and Mazy Bell Free Trust
Purpose: General scholarship support of the Mazy Bell Free Scholarship
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Purpose: New Directions Fellowship awarded to Heather Williams, support to complete her study and document the links between environmental change, migration and political activism among the rural Aymara community
Principal Investigator: Heather Williams

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Purpose: The Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program
Contact: Office of Foundation & Corporate Relations

The Rose Hills Foundation
Purpose: Scholarship support for students from the Inland Empire who are recipients of Rose Hills Foundation Science and Engineering Scholarships
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The Rose Hills Foundation
Purpose: Rose Hills Foundation Summer Science and Engineering Research grants for student summer research
Contact: Office of Foundation & Corporate Relations

2006
The Cecile and Fred Bartman Foundation
Purpose: Unrestricted institutional support
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation
Purpose: Sabbatical research grant awarded to Margaret Waller, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Principal Investigator: Margaret Waller

California Educational Facilities Authority
Purpose: To sustain the Summer Scholars Enrichment Program, a residential summer outreach program held on the Pomona College campus, designed to help prepare high school students traditionally underrepresented at the college/university level.
Contact: Office of Foundation & Corporate Relations

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Purpose: To help fund construction of the new Foreign Language Resource Center during the renovation of Mason Hall.
Contact: Office of Foundation & Corporate Relations

The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Purpose: General scholarship support
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Accomplishment: Faculty Fellowship awarded to Jennifer Perry, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, for faculty summer research, research assistance, and associated expenses
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Perry

The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Accomplishment: Faculty Fellowship awarded to Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, for faculty summer research, research assistance, and associated expenses
Principal Investigator: Gary Smith

David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation
Purpose: Capital support for the James Turrell '65 art installation to be located in the courtyard of the Lincoln and Edmunds buildings
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

William T. Kemper Foundation
Purpose: Capital support for the James Turrell '65 art installation to be located in the courtyard of the Lincoln and Edmunds buildings
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

Los Angeles Philanthropic Foundation
Purpose: General scholarship support
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The MacKenzie Foundation
Purpose: Scholarship support for pre-medical students
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Purpose: New Directions Fellowship awarded to Gary Wilder, “Parasites and Parastates: Mercenary Imperialism from Decolonization to Neoliberalism”
Principal Investigator: Gary Wilder

The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Purpose: Equipment for the neuroscience laboratory in the Lincoln Building
Contact: Office of Foundation & Corporate Relations

The Rose Hills Foundation
Purpose: Scholarship support for students from the Inland Empire who are recipients of Rose Hills Foundation Science and Engineering Scholarships
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

2005
ARCS Foundation, Los Angeles Founder Chapter
Purpose: General scholarship support
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Purpose: Scholarship support for the Beckman Scholar Program
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The Cecile and Fred Bartman Foundation
Purpose: To help endow the Fred Krinsky Professorship in Jewish Studies
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

Booth Ferris Foundation
Purpose: To purchase specialized scientific equipment to establish a Molecular Genetics Center in the Richard C. Seaver Biology Building
Principal Investigator: Laura Mays Hoopes

The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Purpose: General scholarship support
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Purpose: Faculty Fellowship awarded to Gilda Ochoa, Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicano Studies, for faculty summer research, research assistance, and associated expenses
Principal Investigator: Gilda Ochoa

The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Purpose: Faculty Fellowship awarded to Margaret Hwang Smith, Assistant Professor of Economics, for faculty summer research, research assistance, and associated expenses
Principal Investigator: Margaret Hwang Smith

The James Irvine Foundation
Purpose: To endow the Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

The James Irvine Foundation
Purpose: To supplement the Gother Ensemble Performance Fund and help support and sustain the activities of the Department of Music
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Purpose: New Directions Fellowship awarded to Katherine Hagedorn, "Toward A Theology of Sound," Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University Divinity School
Principal Investigator: Katherine Hagedorn

Lluella Morey Murphey Foundation
Purpose: General scholarship support
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

National Endowment for the Humanities
Purpose: Television Project Consultation Grant in support of the film project titled “How the Enlightenment Made Our World”
Contact: The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College

The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
Purpose: To support the College’s growing robotics and research programs in Computer Science
Principal Investigator: Jim Marshall

The Edwin W. Pauley Foundation
Purpose: To support an ELISA (Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay) laboratory
Principal Investigator: Gene Fowler

The Ann Peppers Foundation
Purpose: General scholarship support
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

Paul K. Richter and Evalyn E. Cook Richter Trusts
Purpose: To support independent study for Richter Scholars in the humanities and fine arts, social sciences, and natural sciences
Contact: Office of Foundation and Corporate Relations

The Rose Hills Foundation
Purpose: Scholarship support for students from the San Gabriel Valley who are recipients of Rose Hills Foundation Science and Engineering Scholarships
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

2004
Aramont Foundation
Purpose: To endow a professorship in Latin American history
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

ARCS Foundation, Los Angeles Founder Chapter
Purpose: General scholarship support
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Purpose: Scholarship support for the Beckman Scholar Program
Contact: Office of Financial Aid

The Florence Gould Foundation
Purpose: To underwrite costs associated with the French translation of Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism: Blurring Genre Boundaries, by Arden Reed, Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English
Principal Investigator: Arden Reed
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Purpose: New Directions Fellowship was awarded to Pamela Smith to explore the craftsmanship of the early modern artisans.
Principal Investigator: Pamela Smith

The Fletcher Jones Foundation
Purpose: To support the building of the Lincoln and Edmunds buildings and to create a new student research/instruction fund for Cognitive Science
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

Weingart Foundation
Purpose: Capital support for the Richard C. Seaver Biology Building
Contact: Office of Institutional Advancement

2003
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Purpose: Faculty Fellowship awarded to Daniel O'Leary, Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Carolyn Anderson, Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow, for research relating to NMR studies of hydrogen bonding in acyclic polyols
Principal Investigator: Daniel O'Leary/Carolyn Anderson
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The Ford Foundation
Purpose: To enable the Pacific Basin Institute to present a symposium on Asian studies, addressing the subject of the Asian Enlightenment and honoring Peter Stanley’s 12-year presidency at Pomona College and commitment to PBI
Contact: The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Purpose: To enhance the college’s Biology Department and expand interdisciplinary scientific programs that relate to biology and the Undergraduate Science Education Program
Principal Investigator: Bruce Telzer
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The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Purpose: Capital support for the Richard C. Seaver Biology Building
Contact: Institutional Advancement

Wayne & Gladys Valley Foundation
Purpose: To endow the Shirley Makinson Greig ’41 Scholarship
Contact: Office of Financial Aid