Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation
$100 million over five years to establish a new center that will focus on racial equity and philanthropic giving to improve financial, health care, education, and criminal-justice systems to benefit people of color.
Warner Music Group
$100 million commitment, in partnership with the Blavatnik Family Foundation, to support charities related to the music industry that are working toward social justice and campaigns against violence and racism.
YouTube
$100 million to create a new fund that is dedicated to amplifying the voices of Black artists and their stories on the company’s video platform.
Anthem and the Anthem Foundation
$50 million pledge over five years to address racial injustice and health disparities in Black and minority communities.
Shubert Foundation
$32 million in unrestricted grant making to 560 arts organizations. All these grants, which range from $10,000 to $325,000, are for general operating support.
Bank of America
$25 million to the Smithsonian Institution to create a new program across several of its museums that will explore issues of race and racism in the United States. The program will pull experts from the Smithsonian’s African American and American Indian museums and Latino and Asian Pacific American centers.
Universal Music Group
$25 million to create its Change Fund, which will make grants to nonprofit groups that support economic empowerment and business development, housing, mental-health services, legal services, and bail, among other resources. The initial round of grants has gone to Black Girl Ventures, Black Lives Matter, the Black Mental Health Alliance, the Colin Kaepernick Foundation, Color of Change, the Equal Justice Initiative, the National Association of Black Journalists, Silence the Shame, the Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of California, the Bail Project, and When We All Vote.
PayPal
$15 million pledge for economic-empowerment grants to nonprofit groups and businesses run by black people and have been financially affected by the twin challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and property damage during protests against police brutality. Among the initial grantees are the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, Baltimore Business Lending, Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Micro Finance Group, Expanding Black Business Credit Initiative, Kiva, Mortar, Nebraska Enterprise Fund, Opportunity Fund, Rising Tide Capital, Start Small Think Big, Walker’s Legacy Foundation, and Women’s Opportunity Resource Center.
PayPal is also promising $500 million in loans and investments to strengthen businesses and communities of Black people and underrepresented minorities.
U.S. Bank Foundation
$15 million to establish a new fund that will award community grants to address systemic economic and racial inequities in small business, affordable housing, and workplace development for people of color across the country. The bank is also promising $1 million to community-development financial institutions to award grants and commercial loans to organizations and businesses owned by Black entrepreneurs.
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
$14.1 million to Bharat Biotech and the International Vaccine Institute to develop a vaccine that will protect against chikungunya disease, a mosquito-borne illness that is prevalent in India.
Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation
$5 million pledge to the Lead Safe Home Fund, a public-private partnership that provides resources to families and property owners to remove lead paint and other sources of the toxic heavy metal from their homes.
Amazon
$4.1 million to the Nature Conservancy’s Urban Greening program in Germany. This follows a $10 million grant from the online retailer giant to the Nature Conservancy in April.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$3.8 million across 23 grants to support open-source software projects to expand biomedical research and enable software maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement.
Rockefeller Foundation
$3 million to four organizations — Dalberg, Dimagi, Medic Mobile, and Odyssey Energy Solutions — for their work with government agencies, communities, and regions in Africa and Asia to use data and technology to bolster their responses to the Covid-19 crisis.
Ball Brothers Foundation
$2 million in grants, of which $1.7 million provides support to organizations in Muncie, Ind., and Delaware County in its program areas of the arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment; human services; and public society benefit. The remaining $300,000 was distributed in emergency grants to local efforts to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$1.7 million to the Women’s Funding Network to support its Regional Women’s Economic Mobility Hub project, which is working with women’s foundations nationwide to boost economic mobility among women and girls.
Lewis Prize for Music
$1.3 million to 32 creative youth-development organizations working to increase access to music education through its Covid-19 Community Response Fund.
AstraZeneca
$1.1 million to the American Kidney Fund for its Coronavirus Emergency Fund, which will give financial assistance to 4,000 patients who are awaiting kidney transplants, are recovering from kidney transplants, or are on dialysis.
Atlantic Philanthropies
$1 million to Cornell Tech to back its Public Interest Tech program, which is developing tools, data sets, research, and education to address major societal problems.
Patterson Foundation
$1 million matching grant to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. Of the gift, $750,000 supported its Global Recovery Fund, and $250,000 will aid continuing recovery efforts in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi following Tropical Cyclone Idai in 2019.
New Grant Opportunities
The Burton D. Morgan Foundation is holding its Changemaker Program for public schools in Ohio’s Cuyahoga, Summit, Portage, and Mahoning counties that serve students in kindergarten through 12th grade to learn new methods of achieving student success. All schools that complete the program will be eligible to apply for a Changemaker Grant from the foundation. These three-year grants, worth a total of up to $400,000, will be awarded to four schools. Interested administrators should attend a virtual open call on June 24 to register their schools.
The Fund for Investigative Journalism is offering immediate grants for journalists based in the United States who are reporting on police misconduct. Journalists can apply for grants of up to $10,000 each; the average grant will be worth $5,000. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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