At home, other than the occasional donation to its corpus, it has received only three generous one-time grants from institutions/individuals, all in the first decade of the 21st century.
At universities across the country, multiyear partnerships like these are replacing traditional one-time grants for individual labs and research projects.
Another $25 million would be used to help schools struggling with "pervasive violence," and $30 million would be for one-time grants for states to help schools develop emergency plans.
Since funds are disbursed regularly and continuously, the offices in charge of such projects are able to achieve their objectives more effectively than if they had been issued one-time grants.
