Accion International (Somerville, Mass.)
$400,000
For operating expenses for innovations in microenterprise development.

Accion International (Somerville, Mass.)
$200,000
To create an intermediary that will bring financial securities backed by microfinance loan portfolios to capital markets.

Aspen Institute (Queenstown, Md.)
$2,000,000
For a new research and development funding intermediary for microenterprise development.

Aspen Institute (Queenstown, Md.)
$155,000
For two international meetings of leaders in the field of development finance.

Association for Enterprise Opportunity (Chicago)
$400,000
To strengthen U.S. microenterprise and self-employment programs.

Association for Women in Development (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000
For the association's planning, administration and institutional development activities.

Credit Union Foundation (Madison, Wis.)
$345,000
To expand asset-building and financial services offered by U.S. credit unions to low-income people.

Friends of the Santa Fe Farmers Market (N.M.)
$200,000
To help establish a permanent farmers market.

Georgia Tech Foundation (Atlanta)
$75,000
For a feasibility study of a bonding company for minority contractors.

Home Care Associates Training Institute (Bronx, N.Y.)
$475,000
To create health care employment opportunities for low-income women.

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Washington, D.C.)
$75,000
To improve business development services for small enterprises in developing countries.

Media for Development International (Elkridge, Md.)
$100,000
For a television documentary on microenterprise credit programs.

National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (New York)
$400,000
To strengthen capital growth and management capabilities of community development credit unions.

North Carolina Minority Support Center (Raleigh)
$100,000
To expand the center's capital support loan fund, which helps community development credit unions.

Northeast Entrepreneur Fund (Virginia, Minn.)
$350,000
For management assistance and loans to self-employed people and small businesses.

Peer Partnerships (Cambridge, Mass.)
$400,000
For a national network of microenterprise programs.

Taos County Economic Development Corporation (N.M.)
$200,000
For economic development projects in poor minority communities.

Wider Opportunities for Women (Washington, D.C.)
$750,000
For a project to increase the effectiveness of welfare and workforce development programs now devolved to state control.

Woodstock Institute (Chicago)
$200,000
For projects on financing economic development in low-income communities.

ABT Associates (Cambridge, Mass.)
$300,000
To evaluate individual development accounts.

Aspen Institute (Queenstown, Md.)
$2,825,000
For a policy program on social innovation in business and a related business education fund.

California, University of (Berkeley)
$100,000
For research on affirmative action programs in U.S. companies.

Center for Community Change (Washington, D.C.)
$525,000
For the center's Public Housing Initiative.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
$155,000
For analysis of housing, welfare and employment issues.

Coastal Enterprises (Wiscasset, Me.)
$434,000
To measure long-term changes in the economic status of participants in a job-creation program.