Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Ascendium Education Group
$58 million to enhance work-force training and education for students from low-income backgrounds, particularly those who attend community colleges, are currently incarcerated, or are the first in their families to attend college.
Eat. Learn. Play.
$25 million over five years to Oakland Unified School District to strengthen reading programs and offer one-on-one literacy tutoring to students in need, particularly those who are Asian, Black, or Latino.
Eat. Learn. Play. is a nonprofit group started by the Golden State Warriors basketball star Steph Curry and his wife, Ayesha.
William Penn Foundation
$24 million to eight organizations to make capital improvements that improve access to the arts, cultural programs, and public spaces in Philadelphia.
American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
$20 million to Furman University, Yale University, and the University of California at San Diego for research on racial disparities in heart and brain health, and to create a network on health equity, housed within a community-engagement resource center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Bill Gatton Foundation
$14 million challenge grant to King University to match donations that support scholarships for students from northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia.
Families and Workers Fund
$12 million to 14 organizations through its Powering Climate and Infrastructure Careers Challenge, which support programs at community organizations and within state and local governments to help women, people in rural communities, and people of color train for careers in clean energy, construction, community resilience, and other specialized industries.
Robert F. Wolfe and Edgar T. Wolfe Foundation
$10 million commitment to the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine to establish the Rita Jean Wolfe Deanship.
Rita Wolfe was the daughter of the late John Wolfe, the former CEO of the Dispatch Printing Company and publisher of the Columbus Dispatch, which was founded by his great-grandfather Robert Wolfe. Rita Wolfe died in August at age 56.
Toyota USA Foundation
$8.6 million to expand academic and career-training programs in science, technology, engineering, and math for students at Fulton County Schools, in Georgia.
Pass It On to Kids Foundation
$7 million to Nemours Children’s Health to back research on the Zika virus’s possible use as a treatment for neuroblastoma and ovarian cancers.
The grant will also support the hospital’s music-therapy program.
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
$6.5 million to refurbish football fields at four historically Black colleges and universities in Georgia and Alabama.
The recipients are Albany State University, Clark Atlanta University, Miles College, Savannah State University.
UnitedHealth Group
$4.5 million over three years to Goodwill Industries International to increase access to education and training, health-related social needs, and work-force development for workers in 25 states.
Teiger Foundation
$3.9 million to 33 art institutions to back the work of contemporary art curators in conducting research, presenting exhibitions, hosting touring shows, and continuing other programs. Grants in this round ranged from $50,000 to $150,000.
The foundation additionally committed $500,000 in grants through its Climate Action for Curators to provide financial and coaching support for art projects that address climate change.
Florida Blue Foundation
$2.4 million to seven nonprofit organizations for programs to strengthen mental health care for young people and bolster the pipeline of mental-health professionals, particularly those that serve underinsured and low-income individuals from rural communities in Florida.
W.M. Keck Foundation
$1.6 million to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to develop new technology to measure mass loss from the melting Antarctic ice shelf and better predict the rise of sea levels.
South Dakota Corn Utilization Council
$1.2 million pledge to South Dakota State University to support its Swine Education and Research Facility.
New Grant Opportunity
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is accepting applications from organizations that are working to advance economic mobility and equity in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The foundation is focusing on four new priorities: essential competencies and skills for workers; equitable access to learning pathways and capital; participation and belonging; and strengthening connections between education and employers. Applications for capacity-building grants, worth between $100,000 and $250,000 each, are due October 8. Applications for collective-impact grants, worth up to $500,000 for planning stages and between $5 million and $20 million for implementation over multiple years, are due November 1. Previous grantees whose mission areas no longer align with the foundation’s new funding priorities may apply for sunset grants worth up to $100,000 each before March 31, 2025.
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