Grantee Profile
Columbia University Earth Institute
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Grants to Columbia University Earth Institute
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$500,000Active Strategy
2010 (Inactive Grant)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — To support the Master's in Development Practice Secretariat (over 21 months).
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$1,000,000Active Strategy
2009 (Duration 2 years, 1 month)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — To incorporate sexual and reproductive health into African national development strategies and the Millennium Villages, and to scale up misoprostol use (over two years).
The MacArthur Foundation awarded Columbia University Earth Institute $1,500,000 between 2009 and 2012.