Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
California Endowment
$225 million over 10 years to make grants to organizations with Black leaders who are conducting programs for organizing, activism, and advocacy for racial equity in California.
See what other grant makers have pledged for social-justice programs this summer.
New York Community Trust
$73 million in emergency grant support through the NYC Covid-19 Response & Impact Fund to 754 nonprofit groups that are working in social services and arts and culture in New York. In addition, the Nonprofit Finance Fund provided $37 million in no-interest loans to 43 charities that were affected by the coronavirus public-health crisis.
Robin Hood
$35.5 million through the Robin Hood Relief Fund to 432 frontline nonprofit organizations across New York City’s five boroughs that are serving people living in poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on direct cash assistance, emergency support, and food distribution.
Lowe’s Companies
$25 million to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to make grants to small businesses in rural areas. The home-improvement chain is also giving an additional $5 million to LISC’s Small Business Grant Fund, focusing specifically on businesses owned by women and minority entrepreneurs; Lowe’s has previously given $25 million to this fund.
St. David’s Foundation
$22.3 million to strengthen the social safety net in Texas during the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the grantees is People’s Community Clinic, which received $2.9 million for its Enhanced Community Health Through Value-Based Strategies project, a integrated dental program, and its prenatal program for teenage parents.
Google.org
$10 million to nonprofit organizations that are working to expand access to digital-skills education. Of the total, $5 million went to YWCA USA to help nonprofit groups expand their job-training programs for women and other groups of people who are underrepresented in technology jobs. JFF received $4 million for its Outcomes for Opportunity Initiative.
Rose Community Foundation
$4.1 million across 395 grants in its second phase of Covid-19 grant making, focusing specifically on mitigating the pandemic’s midterm and longer-term effects on health and economic development in the Denver area.
Clowes Fund
$3.2 million from its endowment to make grants in response to the economic and human-services crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in Indiana, New England, and Seattle.
Amgen Foundation
$3 million to Khan Academy to support the education website’s virtual science lessons, boost partnerships with school districts that are facing budget shortfalls during the pandemic, and begin a collaboration with Harvard’s LabXchange, the university’s new and free online science program.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
$3 million to Impact Assets for the Capital Access Lab, which will make loans to small businesses owned by people of color, women, and those who live in rural areas. The Rockefeller Foundation also gave the effort $500,000.
Moody Foundation
$2 million to the Galveston Independent School District to buy more than 3,000 internet-connected computer devices for the 30 percent of the Texas district’s students and teachers who do not have a laptop or internet access at home. The grant also includes two years of support for 1,200 mobile Wi-Fi hot spots.
Barr Foundation
$1.4 million in its third round of grants in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This round was awarded to 19 organizations that serve Black communities in Massachusetts.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$1.3 million to the National Organization for Rare Disorders and Eurordis-Rare Diseases Europe to support capacity-building projects and awareness campaigns for Rare Disease Day.
Kresge Foundation
$1.1 million in its fourth round of grant making to support nonprofit organizations that are responding to the coronavirus crisis. In total, the foundation has given $10.3 million in Covid-19 grants since April.
Gill Foundation
$1 million for Covid-19 relief in Colorado, including $500,000 to Food Bank of the Rockies.
New Grant Opportunities
The Center for Nonprofit Advancement is requesting nominations for its Excellence in Chief Executive Leadership Award, which recognizes exceptional nonprofit chief executives in the Washington area. Nominees must have held the top salaried executive position for at least three years at a nonprofit group with an annual budget under $10 million in Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia. Nominations are due August 7.
The Lewis Prize for Music is accepting applications for its Accelerator Awards, which will grant three multiyear awards of $500,000 each to creative youth development music organizations. Eligible organizations must provide access to learning, creating, and performing experiences for young people that reflect their culture and identity. Applications are due August 21.
Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.
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