Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Ballmer Group
$175 million commitment to StriveTogether to expand its economic-mobility programs to reach at least 4 million more young people, with a focus on children and families from historically marginalized communities in the United States.
Blue Meridian Partners
$124 million to the HBCU Transformation Project to increase enrollment and retention, improve fundraising, and create opportunities for collaboration among historically Black colleges and universities across the United States.
Read more about the project, which is a joint effort of the United Negro College Fund, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and the Partnership for Education Advancement.
Red Gates Foundation
$50 million commitment to Virginia Tech to back health-sciences research within its Fralin Biomedical Research Institute.
O. Wayne Rollins Foundation
$25 million to the University of the Cumberlands to establish the R. Randall Rollins Endowed Scholars Program for undergraduate students.
Randall Rollins, who died in 2020, was the chairman of Rollins Inc., the pest-control company founded by his father, O. Wayne Rollins. Randall Rollins did not graduate from college.
Tampa General Hospital
$25 million to the University of South Florida to name its Center for Athletic Excellence, part of the university’s stadium complex that will include clinical space where the hospital will provide behavioral-health services, treatment, therapy, career mentoring, and other services to students and the surrounding community.
The gift will also name the university’s athletics district.
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
$15.6 million to 26 grantees that are working to protect grassland habitats in the northern Great Plains, improve ranching operations, and strengthen communities in Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$14 million to community-development organizations in Macon, Ga.
Among the grants is $5 million to the National Trust for Local News to establish a newsroom in Macon in collaboration with Mercer University.
GitLab Foundation
$10 million over three years to develop new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to drive economic development for low-income people around the world.
Templeton Religion Trust
$6 million to Belmont University’s Innovation Labs to back entrepreneurial ideas that address social problems, reduce poverty, and promote human and community flourishing.
Marguerite Casey Foundation
$5 million through Public Dollars for Public Goods, its new program to support community organizers who help people from historically marginalized communities access federal and local grants for public-safety projects.
The program’s first grantees are Native Americans in Philanthropy, the Southern Economic Advancement Project, Addition Collective, the Heartland Fund, the Rural Democracy Initiative, the Amalgamated Foundation, Seattle Solidarity Budget, Kansas City Tenants, the Economic Security Project, the Workers Lab, and the Center for Working Families.
KeyBank
$2.5 million to CHN Housing Partners and LISC Cleveland to make grants to low-income homeowners in Cleveland and help them afford necessary home repairs.
Cars for Kids
$2 million to Texans Can Academies to support this network of high schools that serves students who are at risk of not completing their high-school education in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.
James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation
$2 million to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to support performances in its 2024 season.
Eisner Foundation
$1.5 million to eight organizations in Southern California for general operating support and to back programs that serve children and older adults.
Mario and Alma Pastega Family Foundation
$1 million over 10 years to the Tillamook YMCA to buy the Tillamook Bowling Lanes.
The nonprofit group will continue operations at the bowling alley in Oregon. It will also house some of its after-school programs for children there.
New Grant Opportunity
The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund is accepting applications for grants to back new approaches to climate restoration in the face of rapid deterioration. In its first round, the fund will make three grants of $50,000 each to organizations worldwide that are working to stop and reverse global warming, focusing on predictive environmental-impact assessments, impact-modeling studies, and small-scale field tests of climate-intervention technologies. Applications are due November 1.
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