In addition to gifts from individuals, Carleton also receives generous support from foundations, corporations, government agencies, and other organizations that help Carleton maintain its strong commitment to the liberal arts.

Carleton's Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations secures funding to support institutional priorities, which are determined collaboratively by the Carleton president, Board of Trustees, deans, faculty, and senior administrators. These priorities include support for faculty salaries, creating academic programs, developing innovative curricula, buying equipment, establishing endowed funds, securing financial aid for students, acquiring capital purchases, and building and maintaining facilities.

Carleton College faculty work with the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations for externally funded grants and with the Dean of the College Office for internally funded grants.

Recent Grants

The Corporate & Foundation Relations website includes a complete list of recent grants to the College and to its faculty. Below are some significant recent awards.

In May 2007, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations awarded a $200,000 grant to Carleton for use in planning the College's new arts center, which will occupy the old Northfield Middle School. The College will use the funds in selecting an architect for the center and developing initial plans for the project.

In March 2007, the Luce Foundation awarded Carleton College a major grant to support a new initiative in the Environmental and Technology Studies concentration. Led by Prof. Tsegaye Nega (Environmental and Technology Studies), the initiative will seek to expand faculty members’ and students’ use of geographic information systems, which are tools for understanding and visualizing quantitative data about environment. Prof. Nega will lead faculty workshops on the use of GIS in classes and research, help award sub-grants to faculty who want to develop GIS assignments for their courses, and further collaborative research by students and faculty on topics which might benefit from GIS tools. In this last category, ENTS faculty-student research will focus initially on problems arising from the interaction of transportation networks, urban growth, and land use in the greater Twin Cities metropolitan region.

In April, Mark Hansell (Asian Languages & Literatures) received a Blakemore Freeman Fellowship to support a year’s study of Japanese at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan. The fellowship will help Prof. Hansell, a long-time instructor of Chinese at Carleton, to expand his scholarly and teaching activities.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made two awards at the beginning of Carleton's 2006-2007 academic year: $50,000 for the planning of an Arabic Language Initiative by Carleton, Macalester, and Grinnell, and $265,000 for the joint Carleton-St. Olaf Library Consortium Collections Development Project.

In late 2005, Carleton received a $200,000 grant from The C.V. Starr Foundation to support The C.V. Starr Scholarship Fund, which aids undergraduates who are interested in the study of East Asia. Carleton has benefited from the generosity of The Starr Foundation for many consecutive years.

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Corporate and Foundation Relations Staff

Mark Gleason
Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
mgleason@carleton.edu
507-222-4047

Nina Mangelsen
Administrative Assistant to the Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
nmangels@carleton.edu
507-222-4046

Christopher Tassava
Assistant Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
Coordinator of Faculty Support
ctassava@carleton.edu
507-222-5833

Dee Menning
Corporate and Foundation Relations Administrative Assistant
dmenning@carleton.edu
507-222-4441