EXTERNAL GRANTS, AUGUST 2020
As part of a new initiative, the Office for the Advancement of Research is sharing external grants secured by faculty and staff with the John Jay community, to promote greater awareness of the research and other projects your colleagues are undertaking. OAR hopes these monthly updates will create new opportunities for collaboration and inspiration across disciplines.

The below grants were all received in August 2020. Please join us in congratulating the PIs listed below!
New Awards

SPONSOR: Salesforce.com Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: Creating Pathways
PERIOD: 5/1/2020 - 4/30/2022
AMOUNT: $62,632

SPONSOR: Solomon E. Summerfield Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: Career Success Peer Leader Program
PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021
AMOUNT: $20,918

SUMMARY: The Career Success on Campus program is a two year grant funded project that will expand campus-level expertise on career readiness preparation, and cultivate industry/employer partnerships that increase the number of high-quality paid internship and full-time opportunities available to John Jay College of Criminal Justice undergraduate students in the Business and Government/Non-Profit sectors.

SPONSOR: David Rockefeller Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: David Rockefeller Fund Fellowship Initiative
PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021
AMOUNT: $63,000
SUMMARY: The Institute's David Rockefeller Fund (DRF) Fellowship recruits and trains individuals with legal system involvement to complete paid internships at DRF, while also engaging additional professional development to build the skills and knowledge required for careers in philanthropy. DRF Fellows research prospective grantees, help prepare for Board meetings, and otherwise support DRF's daily operations.

SPONSOR: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: Adapting the Prison-to-College Pipeline at Otisville Correctional Facility to Incorporate Remote Instruction and Support
PERIOD: 8/1/2020 - 7/31/2021
AMOUNT: $100,000
SUMMARY: Funding from the Mellon Foundation will allow the Institute to sustain and expand its college-in-prison program at Otisville Correctional Facility while in-person instruction is suspended. The Institute will install teleconferencing equipment at Otisville for staff to connect with students and maintain a robust college program remotely.
SPONSOR: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: IIP Operating Support
PERIOD: 8/1/2020 - 7/31/2021
AMOUNT: $200,000
SUMMARY: The Institute for Innovation in Prosecution provides a collaborative national platform that brings together prosecutors, policy experts, and the communities they serve to promote data-driven strategies, cutting-edge scholarship, and innovative thinking.
SPONSOR: Langeloth Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: Correctional Health, Race and COVID-19: An Online Fellowship and Training Seminar for Journalists
PERIOD: 8/1/2020 - 7/31/2021
AMOUNT: $25,000
SUMMARY: The Langeloth Foundation has awarded the Center on Media, Crime and Justice $25K to support a series of 3-5 interactive webinars for journalists examining the disproportionate racial impact of COVID-19 on prison health care. The first webinar is scheduled for mid-October.
Renewals for Multi-Year Awards
SPONSOR: The Tow Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: Tow Advocacy Fellowship Initiative
PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021
AMOUNT: $300,000
SUMMARY: The Tow Fellowship prepares John Jay graduate students to become effective policy advocates. Tow Fellows complete year-long placements with advocacy-focused nonprofit organizations while also taking a two-semester course to sharpen relevant skills.

Year 7
SPONSOR: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
PROJECT TITLE: DNA Methylation Biomarkers and Ancestry in Breast Cancer in Hispanic Women
PERIOD: 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021
AMOUNT: $120,865
SUMMARY: The project aims to discover biological markers that can help us learn about the progression of breast cancer in Latinas. It also takes racial variation into consideration, by studying ancestry through the analysis of genetic measures, which has been shown to be important in the disease and has not previously been applied to this population.

Year 3
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