Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$190 million for the Data for Health Initiative to facilitate the collection of birth and death records across the world, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed $150 million to the effort, and the Gates Foundation will contribute an additional $40 million.
Comcast
$35 million commitment through its Project UP program to support community organizations that help connect people to the internet, offer job training in digital skills, and advance economic mobility.
W.P. Carey Foundation
$25 million to Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business to bolster real-estate programs and endow a chair who will serve as executive director of the new W.P. Carey Center for Real Estate and Finance.
Lilly Endowment
$25 million to Marian University for a program at its Klipsch Educators College to work with students from kindergarten through 12th grade and improve literacy levels at schools in northwest Marion County, in Indiana.
The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
Delta Dental Community Care Foundation
$16.3 million to nonprofit organizations across 15 states and Washington, D.C., to increase access to low-cost oral health care.
Mellon Foundation
$11.5 million to two institutions to enhance Latino studies.
Hunter College received nearly $6.5 million for its Center for Puerto Rican Studies. The University of Illinois at Chicago will receive $5 million to continue its Crossing Latinidades program for three years.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$10.6 million to the Wilcox Medical Center to expand its imaging programs and upgrade technology at the hospital to improve rural health care in Hawaii.
Seneca Foods Foundation
$10 million to the Cornell Food Venture Center at AgriTech, a program at Cornell University to help food producers in New York State bring their products to market.
Half the gift will build a facility for the program, and the remaining $5 million will endow a professorship and pay the salary of the center’s director.
Conrad Prebys Foundation
$5.7 million to 38 visual art and performing-arts organizations to boost the arts and cultural scene in San Diego.
Coca-Cola Company and the Hartford
$3 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s American Women’s History Museum, which will be built on the National Mall, in Washington.
The museum received $2 million from the beverage corporation, and $1 million from the Hartford, an insurance company.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
$2.7 million to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute to improve the collection of data about the value of paid and unpaid child or elder care in families with caregivers.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
$2.5 million to Amazon Frontlines, a group based in San Francisco that helps Indigenous people in South America defend their rights to land and their way of life, preserve rainforest biodiversity, and protect the environment.
This organization is the winner of the foundation’s 2024 Humanitarian Prize, which is awarded annually to recognize efforts to reduce human suffering.
Harold Alfond Foundation
$1.5 million over three years to Husson University to back experiential learning programs at the Maine institution’s School of Technology and Innovation.
UnidosUS
$1.1 million through its Home Ownership Means Equity fund to support housing organizations across the United States that are working to increase homeownership opportunities for Latino families.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
$1 million over three years to the news organization MLK50: Justice Through Journalism for general operating support.
The MacArthur Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
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