THE
Volume 11, Issue 2 Summer 2009
Largest Award in Danfor th Center
History Granted by Department of Energy
On April 27, in an announcement timed to
coincide with a speech delivered by President
Obama to the National Academy of Sciences, the
White House revealed the recipients of awards
to create 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers
(EFRCs) across the United States. Funded by the
U.S. Department of Energy’s Offi ce of Science, a
total of $777 million has been committed to establishing EFRCs at universities,
national laboratories, nonprofi t organizations, and private companies across
the U.S., with a goal to enhance the country’s energy security while protecting
the global environment.
The Danforth Center was awarded $15 million over fi ve years and was one of
only two non-profi ts chosen. The award is the largest in the Center’s history
and will be used to create the Center for Advanced Biofuels Systems (CABS).
Center scientist Dr. Richard Sayre, Director of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Institute for Renewable Fuels, will lead CABS, which will work synergistically
within Institute at the Danforth Center. Other participating Danforth Center
scientists and principal investigators include Drs. Leslie Hicks, Jan Jaworski,
Toni Kutchan, Sam Wang and Oliver Yu, along with select scientists from
around the country.
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CAMPAIGN FOR A GREEN FUTURE CONTINUES WITH THE
Dr. William H. Danforth
Honored for Dedication
DONOR STIMULUS CHALLENGE
to Science & Public
The Center’s Campaign for a
Service
Green Future, launched in 2005
with a generous challenge from
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the Danforth Foundation, continues to build momentum. With a dual goal
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to build an endowment for the long-term sustainability of the Center and to
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steadily increase annual support from donors, the Danforth Foundation’s
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challenge fund ultimately reached $62.5 million, for a total of $125 million
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when fully matched.
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With support from leading donors including Jack Taylor, the Monsanto
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Fund, the William T. Kemper Foundation, the AT&T Foundation and
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countless others, the challenge fund was fulfi lled in January 2009. With the
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Danforth Foundation’s fund met, and recognizing that today’s economic
climate requires thoughtful consideration of charitable priorities, eight
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Center donors have generously pooled additional resources to create a new
Introducing the Global
Danforth Center Donor Stimulus Challenge. This fund will match, dollar- Harvest Alliance
for-dollar, all new and increased annual giving contributions made through
December 31, 2009 (or until the challenge has been fulfi lled), providing
additional incentive to those who expand their support or become donors.
The Leafl et is a quarterly
Chairman Dr. William H. Danforth remarked on donating to the Center’s
publication for partners,
cause in both good and bad economic times: “Markets rise and fall, but we
friends, and supporters of
are in this for the long term; our mission is just as important as ever and will
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be for as long as we can foresee.” ■ Science Center.
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