Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Open Society Foundations
$220 million commitment to emerging organizations and leaders in Black communities across the United States. Of this commitment, $150 million will be disbursed in five-year grants to social-justice organizations with Black leaders working toward racial equality. Among the first recipients are Black Voters Matter, Circle for Justice Innovations, Repairers of the Breach, and the Equal Justice Initiative.
Salesforce
$200 million commitment to philanthropic organizations that are working to advance racial equality and justice at the global, national, and local levels. The technology company has dedicated nearly $100 million of the pledge to improve public education and close the achievement gap for Black and underrepresented minority students. Salesforce is also promising $10 million in software, training, certifications, and other in-kind donations to its grantees.
Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation
$194.7 million to the University of Arkansas for the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research. The grant will expand its cross-disciplinary research capability, build a facility to house the institute, support entrepreneurship education, and create a campus in Bentonville, Ark.
A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation
$27 million to MedStar Health to establish the D.C. Safe Babies Safe Moms program, which will provide critical services for mothers, including diabetes management, mental-health services, prenatal and postpartum care, breastfeeding support, health screenings, and nutrition education.
IBM
$20 million over 10 years to the University of Notre Dame for the new Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab, which will conduct applied research and develop models for the ethical application of technology within business, government, and the tech sector.
Lilly Endowment
$10.2 million to the Arts Council of Indianapolis for Indy Arts and Culture Restart & Resilience Fund, which is designed to help \
Marion County nonprofit groups in the arts reopen and continue to serve their audiences during the Covid-19 crisis.
Morgan Stanley
$10 million to the National Urban League to bolster programs that support financial literacy, work-force development, and access to lending in minority communities.
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
$8.5 million for Covid-19 relief. The amount represents the foundation’s entire institutional grant-making allocation for 2020. So far, it has made $2.5 million in grants to 22 nonprofit organizations, including $1 million to the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles for its Covid-19 relief efforts locally and in Israel.
Trinity Church Wall Street
$6.9 million in grants to 57 organizations that are dedicated to ending systemic racism in New York City.
Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
$6.2 million pledge to meet the increased need for food, social services, and engagement with the Jewish community in Los Angeles during the Covid-19 crisis.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$5 million to Particles for Humanity to develop a food additive that would help millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa who suffer negative health effects from a lack of vitamin A in their diet.
Jean and David W. Wallace Foundation
$5 million to Greenwich Hospital to endow the medical director of the neurovascular surgery program.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
$4.5 million to seven grantees that are working to support the health and well-being of Native communities in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. The recipients are the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums; Covenant House Alaska; First Peoples Fund; IllumiNative; National Indian Child Welfare Association; Parents and Children Together; and Standing Rock Community Development Corporation.
Rockefeller Foundation
$4 million to the Lacuna Fund to establish this collaborative effort to connect data scientists, researchers, and social entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income communities with key resources to produce labeled datasets and build artificial-intelligence applications to benefit philanthropic projects in agriculture, health, and language.
Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation
$1.5 million to the Mind Trust for a mathematics-instruction pilot program for teachers in Indianapolis schools as they adjust to teaching remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.
Arcus Foundation
$1 million over four years to Fondo Semillas (Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer) to support grass-roots groups that support policy change, inclusion campaigns, legal aid for human-rights violations, and access to services for LGBTQI people in Mexico.
New Grant Opportunity
The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation is making a second round of grants through its Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund to support racial-justice organizations in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, and Union Counties. Charities must address the disproportionate economic, social, and health impacts that the pandemic has had on New Jersey’s communities of color. This fund will provide up to 60 one-time unrestricted grants worth between $1,000 and $10,000 each to support urgent funding needs at organizations that do not have endowments. The average grant size is expected to be $4,000. Applications are due August 14.
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