For the December 2012 grant cycle only:  Invitations to submit a Phase II proposal will be issued on July 23, 2012.  Phase II proposals are due at the Foundation offices on August 23, 2012, by 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

Counseling advice on Phase I submissions for the November 1, 2012 deadline will take place only between July 1 and August 15, 2012.  Potential applicants are encouraged to submit their ideas for grants in the form of a single-page concept paper.  For a complete list of the Foundation’s important dates and deadlines: Grant Cycle Timeline

Keck Foundation Gives $150 million to USC's Keck School of Medicine

On June 13, 2011, the W. M. Keck Foundation announced its $150 million naming gift to the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine to accelerate groundbreaking medical, clinical and translational research and education.  This is the second transformative gift the Keck Foundation has made in recent years to USC’s medical enterprise, following its historic $110 million gift in 1999 to the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

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http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-usc-gift-20110613,0,2058974.story

In 2009 and 2010, the W. M. Keck Foundation initiated an external evaluation of its grant-making programs.  Towards this end, we secured the assistance of three blue-ribbon committees chaired by Harvey Fineberg for Medical Research, Ralph Cicerone for Science and Engineering, and Jim Ukropina for the Southern California grant program.  (The recently reorganized Undergraduate Education program will be evaluated at a later date.)  These panels in turn tasked subject area experts to evaluate the last 15 years of grants made by the Foundation.  After reviewing grant outcomes, the committees each made independent findings and recommendations.  These are helping to establish our priorities for future grantmaking.  We are indebted to these evaluation committees and subcommittees for their hard work.  A full list of the talented and dedicated people who helped review the programs is found at the end of this letter.