Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$1.6 billion over five years to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to deliver routine immunizations to 300 million more children worldwide and prioritize children in low-income countries once a Covid-19 vaccine is available.
Sony Music Group
$100 million to create a new fund that will support social justice and antiracist programs worldwide, in response to widespread protests against police brutality.
Comcast
$75 million pledge over three years to make grants to address discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, or ability. Grantees include the National Urban League, the Equal Justice Initiative, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Action Network, and the Community Justice Action Fund. The communications giant is also promising $25 million worth of ads and media content.
Mastercard Foundation
$40 million to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention for its Partnership to Accelerate Covid-19 Testing, which is working to deliver 1 million test kits and employ 10,000 community health workers to contain the pandemic’s spread in Africa.
Nike
$40 million commitment over four years to social-justice organizations that fight systemic racism and support the black community in the United States. The pledge is coming from a combined effort between the Nike, Jordan, and Converse brands.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
$32 million through its Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative. Twenty scientists in the United States will each receive $1.6 million in unrestricted support over the next five years to pursue experimental research that has the potential for significant advances in quantum materials.
Cummings Foundation
$20 million in multiyear grants to 130 nonprofit groups in Massachusetts.
Google
$12 million to organizations that are addressing racial inequities. Among the first grants are $1 million each to the Center for Policing Equity and the Equal Justice Initiative.
Amazon
$10 million to 12 organizations that are supporting racial justice and equity. Among the recipients are the ACLU Foundation, Black Lives Matter, the NAACP, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Year Up.
Bad Robot Productions
$10 million pledge over five years to social-justice organizations with antiracist agendas. Among the first grantees are the Equal Justice Initiative, the Black Futures Lab, the Know Your Rights Camp, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, and the Community Coalition, each of which has received $200,000.
Facebook
$10 million commitment to nonprofit groups that advance racial justice.
Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation
$10 million commitment to the State Infrastructure Fund, the Heartland Fund, and other organizations to increase civic participation among black, Latino, and indigenous communities in forthcoming U.S. elections. The grant comes in response to the ongoing civil-rights protests and the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Verizon Foundation
$10 million to seven civil-rights organizations to advance racial equity and social justice. The recipients are the National Urban League, the NAACP, the National Action Network, the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, the Rainbow Push Coalition, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Starbucks Foundation
$8.5 million in its Covid-19 giving, including $1 million each to the United Nations Foundation’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, Some Good News, Mercy Corps, and Feeding America’s Covid-19 Response Fund.
Greater Cincinnati Foundation
$5 million over five years through its newly created Fund for Racial Justice to combat systemic racism in Cincinnati.
Minnesota Disaster Recovery Fund
$3 million in its fourth round of Covid-19 grant making to 20 organizations in Minnesota. Of this total, $2 million has been awarded to organizations that support nonprofit recovery and community resilience among black, indigenous, and other minority communities in the state. This fund is a project of the Minnesota Council on Foundations and Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation.
Rockefeller Foundation
$2 million to the Baltimore Civic Fund to create the Baltimore Health Corps, a public-private partnership with the Baltimore City Health Department and the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development that will employ hundreds of city residents as contact tracers and care coordinators during the Covid-19 pandemic. The project has also received grant support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the France-Merrick Foundation, the Goldseker Foundation, the Open Society Institute-Baltimore, the PepsiCo Foundation, the Rauch Foundation, the Stulman Foundation, and the T. Rowe Price Foundation.
American Express
$1 million to be shared between the National Urban League and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund to support their work in racial equity, economic empowerment in black communities, civil rights, and justice.
DeBruce Foundation
$1 million to the Police Foundation of Kansas City to purchase body cameras for the Kansas City Police Department in Missouri.
Grange Insurance Company
$1 million to local nonprofit groups working in health and human services in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Columbus area.
San Francisco 49ers
$1 million pledge to “local and national organizations who are creating change,” the football team’s CEO, Jed York, said in a statement. Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback and social activist, last played for the 49ers in 2016 when he knelt during the National Anthem to protest police brutality. The team released him following that season, and he has not been signed since then.
New Grant Opportunity
WorkRise, an affiliate of the Urban Institute, has announced a request for proposals to rapidly develop projects that bolster workers’ economic security during the Covid-19 crisis and promote their longer-term financial health. The program will make $2 million in grants to support research on promising policies, practices, and programs that stabilize workers who may be out of work as well as create new opportunities as workers and businesses recover from the pandemic. Grants will range between $50,000 and $500,000 over up to 18 months. Letters of inquiry are due June 29.
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