Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
18 Grant Makers
$302 million commitment to aid farmers and food-systems organizations on six continents in developing new solutions to protecting food and agriculture from climate disruption. The pledge was announced during Food Day at COP28, in Dubai.
The grant makers that are contributing to the total are the African Climate Foundation, Instituto Arapyaú, the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network, the Bezos Earth Fund, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the ClimateWorks Foundation, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, the Global Methane Hub, the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, the High Tide Foundation, the Macdoch Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, Ode Partners, the Robertson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sequoia Climate Foundation, the Stronger Foundations for Nutrition, and the Walton Family Foundation.
(The Walton Family Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.)
12 Foundations
$250 million to create the Ocean Resilience and Climate Alliance.
The funders include the Ballmer Group, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Builders Vision, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, Oak Foundation, Oceankind, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, the Rivian Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Vere Initiatives, among others.
X Prize
$101 million over seven years to create the X Prize Healthspan, a new global competition that will award annual cash prizes to research teams that develop new therapeutic drugs to restore muscle, cognition, and immune function in people ages 65 to 80 years, with a goal of extending human life expectancy by 10 to 20 years.
An additional prize of $10 million will be awarded to a team that helps restore lost muscular function due to facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$100 million commitment to CGIAR, AIM4Scale, and other international-development organizations to help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia make their practices more resilient to climate change and mediate the immediate and long-term threats to food security and nutrition.
Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation
$100 million to the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism to strengthen its digital and social-media accounts, create new television and multimedia campaigns, augment data and research, and partner with other organizations to expand its outreach to younger and older populations across the United States.
Sue Ling Gin Foundation
$21 million over three years donation to Chicago CRED, a nonprofit organization that leads efforts to reduce gun violence by offering therapy, life coaching, education, and job training for young people from marginalized communities in the city.
Gin was the daughter of Chinese immigrants who founded Flying Food Group, a network of 20 catering kitchens that worked with more than 70 airlines. She was also a real-estate investor in Chicago. Gin died in 2014 at age 73.
Borealis Philanthropy
$5.4 million through its Racial Equity in Journalism Fund to bolster 58 news organizations that serve communities of color across the United States.
Burke Foundation
$4.6 million to Marquette University to continue the Burke Scholars program for undergraduates and the Trinity Fellows program for graduate students.
Richard Burke, the founder and former president of Trek Bicycle Corporation, was a 1956 graduate of Marquette’s College of Business Administration. Prior to his death in 2008 at age 73, he served on the university’s Board of Trustees from 1996 until 2005.
Rite Aid Healthy Futures
$3.7 million to more than 370 local nonprofits across 17 states for their work to address racial inequities and health disparities in diverse and low-income communities.
Fritz B. Burns Foundation
$3 million to Thomas Aquinas College to endow a fund for student financial aid.
Hudson-Webber Foundation
$2.3 million to eight organizations for projects in arts and culture, conservation, racial equity, and community and economic development to benefit residents of the metropolitan Detroit area.
Amazon
$2 million to Mercy Housing Northwest for Mercy Angle Lake Family Housing, its new affordable-housing development close to public transit in SeaTac, Wash. It will include homes specifically for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
In a separate grant, the retail giant also gave $1.5 million to the Computer Science Teachers Association to enhance computer-science education in the United States.
Amplify Her Foundation
$1 million to nonprofit groups that are advancing the leadership of women and girls from marginalized communities across New York City.
New Grant Opportunity
Forge, in collaboration with Fundación Avina, is accepting applications for grants through its new Democracy at Work Fund, which will support organizations that are leading efforts in labor rights, fair pay, and democracy in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 will be made to strengthen organizations and programs to advance labor rights in 11 countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, South Africa, and Uganda. Priority will go to women and migrant-led organizations, as well as efforts at the intersection of workers’ rights, gender justice, racial justice, and climate justice. Applications are due January 31.
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