Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Peter Alfond Foundation
$40 million to MaineGeneral Health for its endowment and to expand its prevention programs to improve community health. The foundation also gave $8 million to the Alfond Youth & Community Center to endow the positions of wellness director and wellness trainers.
Alfond, who died in 2017, was a billionaire investor whose father started the Dexter Shoe Company and sold it to Berkshire Hathaway in 1995.
Truist Financial Corporation
$25 million pledge in additional grants to help small businesses in underserved communities recover from the economic fallout of the pandemic. The new commitment doubles what the bank previously promised in Covid-19 giving and includes $5 million to Local Initiatives Support Corporation and $1.5 million to the Community Education Alliance.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$24 million in Covid-19 emergency-response grants to 100 recipients.
Taco Bell Foundation
$11 million to scholarship programs for young people. Of the commitment, $8 million will go to nonprofit organizations that work with youths in their local communities, and $3 million will support the fast-food company’s Live Más Scholarships program.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$10 million to the Korea Telecom corporation for a three-year research project that will develop pandemic-response solutions that uses artificial intelligence and data analysis of mobile technology.
Housing Affordability Trust
$4.9 million to 19 organizations that are working to improve housing and quality of life in the area surrounding Birmingham, Ala.
Russell Berrie Foundation
$4.5 million in emergency grants to support organizations in New Jersey and Israel that are on the front lines delivering pandemic-relief efforts. Of the total, $1.8 million went to organizations in the United States, and $2.7 million has supported causes in Israel.
Reader’s Digest Foundation
$2 million to United Through Reading for its programs that use shared story times to connect military families who are separated because of deployment or military assignment.
Santander Consumer USA Inc. Foundation
$1.3 million to 18 nonprofit organizations that need assistance to continue operating during the pandemic in the communities in which the bank operates.
Amerigroup Texas and the Amerigroup Foundation
$1 million commitment for coronavirus-relief efforts across Texas, including support for food banks, Boys & Girls Clubs statewide, faith-based organizations, nursing facilities, foster-care groups, child-care centers, and other community organizations.
Kaiser Permanente
$1 million for the City of Denver’s Housing and Homeless Services Fund, which will provide resources to help suppress the spread of Covid-19 among people experiencing homelessness in the Denver area.
MathWorks
$1 million to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Combating Covid-19 Fund.
PepsiCo
$1 million to UnidosUS, the organization formerly known as the National Council of La Raza, to create the Esperanza/Hope Fund. The fund has so far awarded $750,000 in grants to 30 Latino community-based organizations.
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