Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation
$50 million over 10 years to support programs that advance social justice and economic mobility for Blacks, Indigenous people, and people of color, particularly in Brooklyn. Clara Wu Tsai and Joe Tsai own the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA’s New York Liberty basketball teams. This pledge is in addition to the $10 million commitment to the NBA Foundation that will come from the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets men’s basketball team. The foundation intends to do some of its social-justice work in partnership with the two basketball teams and the Barclays Center, a sports arena in Brooklyn.
Koret Foundation
$10 million to nine colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area to continue the Koret Scholars program for the next five years. The program helps first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority college students complete their degrees and overcome obstacles that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated.
California Wellness Foundation
$9.3 million in grants to improve health equity in California during the Covid-19 pandemic, address racial disparities in pandemic response, and advance racial justice for communities of color. The foundation also made $2 million in program-related investments to support these causes.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$5 million to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to continue Humanities Without Walls, its consortium of interdisciplinary humanities centers at colleges and universities. The project has pledged $1.3 million over five years to Marquette University, a member of the consortium.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$5 million to the Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation for a clinical trial to evaluate a virtual specialty clinic model for people with diabetes.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$4.5 million to its Neurodegeneration Challenge Network to support 30 teams of researchers that are studying neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS.
Harris Philanthropies and Pew Charitable Trusts
$4 million to the Bridgespan Group to expand its Leading for Impact and Leadership Accelerator programs to Philadelphia and Camden, N.J. Each grant maker gave $2 million to the effort.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$1.9 million to the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy to back research on women’s giving and help nonprofit groups and donors more effectively use insights from that research.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
$1 million to eight neighborhood-revitalization projects in Flint, Mich. Residents of the city voted on the projects, and the foundation will pay to demolish condemned homes, hire young people for beautification projects, help older people make repairs to their homes, and other improvement ideas.
State Employees’ Credit Union and SECU Foundation
$1 million to Veterans Life Center to build a residence for military veterans in North Carolina and provide services to help them avoid homelessness, incarceration, suicide, and premature death.
New Grant Opportunity
The Grammy Museum, with support from the Recording Academy, is accepting letters of inquiry for its annual grant program. Nonprofit organizations and individuals may apply for grants worth between $5,000 and $20,000 each to archive and preserve the music and recorded sound heritage of North America for future generations. Grants worth up to $20,000 each are also awarded to scientific research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition. Letters of inquiry are due November 1.
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