Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
15 Grant Makers
$102.5 million over five years to Native Americans in Philanthropy and the Biodiversity Funders Group to back conservation work led by Indigenous tribes.
The 15 foundations that have signed the Tribal Nations Conservation Pledge so far are the Alaska Conservation Foundation, the Christensen Fund, the Decolonizing Wealth Project, the Doris Duke Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Grousemont Foundation, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Resources Legacy Fund, Re:wild, the Walton Family Foundation, the Water Foundation, the Wilburforce Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Wyss Foundation.
Bezos Earth Fund
$34.5 million to four nonprofit groups for their efforts to improve greenhouse-gas accounting and develop sustainable food systems.
The grants are $9.9 million to CDP to update its systems to make climate data publicly available; $9.9 million to Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to back a project that will use GPS tracking on livestock animals and expand grazing areas without decimating forests; $9.3 million to the GHG Protocol to improve reporting of greenhouse gases; and $5.5 million to the Good Food Institute to develop protein alternatives to conventional meat.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$26.4 million to improve access to ultrasound imaging services for both rural and urban residents of Minnesota.
Of the total, $18.3 million will help Minnesota hospitals and health centers purchase 200 new ultrasound imaging devices. The remaining $8.1 million will support training for sonographers and ultrasound technicians through the Minnesota Rural Health Association, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities in partnership with St. Cloud Technical and Community College’s sonography program, and the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.
Gilead Sciences
$7.6 million through its Toward Health Equity Oncology Grant program to 24 community organizations to reduce barriers to care for patients with breast cancer in the United States.
Mellon Foundation
$5.8 million to the Montpelier Foundation to build a memorial to enslaved people who lived at Montpelier, the Virginia home of President James Madison.
The foundation also gave $3.5 million to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to expand its Getting Word African American Oral History Project, a collection of stories that have been passed down to the descendants of the enslaved community at President Thomas Jefferson’s home.
Shubert Organization
$5 million to the Entertainment Community Fund to expand low-cost housing and health care for actors and entertainers at the Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts, in New York; the Actors Fund Home, in Englewood, N.J.; and the Hollywood Arts Collective, in Los Angeles.
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
$4 million to six research and conservation projects that focus on protecting diverse ecosystems and at-risk species across the United States.
Builders Initiative
$2.8 million to Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute to establish a queen conch hatchery in Grand Bahama.
Yawkey Foundation
$2.5 million to the Dimock Center to develop a new facility that will serve more than 1,000 people per year who have completed in-patient detox for substance use disorder.
Truist Charitable Fund
$2.2 million to the Coastal Community Foundation to make impact investments in minority-owned small businesses and affordable housing in the coastal South Carolina region.
Bay Area Lyme Foundation
More than $1 million to the University of California at San Francisco to back its Lyme Clinical Trials Center.
T-Mobile
$1 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History for its forthcoming “Cellphone: Unseen Connections” exhibition.
Wareham Development
$1 million over four years to the Berkeley Public Schools Fund to bolster education in science, technology, engineering, and math for students in the Berkeley Unified School District, in California.
New Grant Opportunity
The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation has committed to award $2.5 million through its NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants, which will give unrestricted cash awards to nonprofit groups that foster storytelling, youth education and empowerment, or community engagement. Organizations must have an annual operating budget of more than $100,000 but less than $1 million and be within the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Hartford, Los Angeles, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, or Washington, D.C. Applications are due April 21.
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