Generous support from Population Council trustees, alumni, staff, and friends helped the Policy Research Division (PRD) meet a one million dollar endowment challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—a year before the deadline. Special thanks go to The Fred H. Bixby, The William and Flora Hewlett, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur, and the Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher foundations for their generous grants and to the Mellon Foundation for matching each endowment gift. Now totaling more than $2 million and still growing, the endowment will provide an ongoing revenue stream to sustain research on such concerns as the unmet need for contraception, poverty in the rapidly expanding urban centers of developing countries, diffusion dynamics, and population aging; and to launch new projects on emerging trends. (Return to issue contents)
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