Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$33 million for technology to address climate change. Of the total, $10 million went to Breakthrough Energy to support its fellowship program for entrepreneurs and researchers who are working to develop, scale, and commercialize decarbonization technology with the potential to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by at least 500 million tons annually by 2050.
Multiple organizations shared the remaining $23 million to focus on developing the field of carbon-dioxide removal and technology to capture and store greenhouse gases.
Apple
$25 million to California State University at Northridge to build the Global Hispanic Serving Institution Innovation Hub, which will offer internship and job-recruitment opportunities for Latinx and other underrepresented students of science, technology, engineering, and math.
Bank of America
$22.1 million to 142 grantees through its Neighborhood Builders and Neighborhood Champions programs, which award grants to nonprofit leaders whose groups are advancing economic mobility and community development in marginalized neighborhoods.
Cummings Foundation
$20 million to Endicott College to expand its School of Nursing.
Twilio
$18 million to advance equity in access to Covid-19 vaccinations.
The communications-software company gave $10 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to distribute Covid-19 vaccines in poorer countries. Other recipients in this effort include Unicef, Save the Children, and Civic Nation.
PNC Foundation
$16.8 million over five years to Howard University to create a center for entrepreneurship education and research. The center aims to eventually serve all 101 historically Black colleges and universities in the United States.
Barr Foundation and Ford Foundation
$10 million to the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts to create the Creative Futures Collaborative, which will partner with 15 organizations across Massachusetts to advance racial justice, arts, and community well-being through access to art and cultural expression of Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities.
Each foundation has contributed $5 million to the effort.
Omidyar Network
$10 million over three years to make grants within its new focus area of corporations, capital markets, and the common good.
Google.org
$5 million to Opportunity Finance Network to augment its Grow with Google Small Business Fund, which will enable community-development financial institutions to make loans and grants to small businesses.
Ms. Foundation for Women
$4 million to 114 nonprofit groups for general operating support and back a wide range of projects to combat gender-based violence, improve economic security, promote health equity, and fight for social justice.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
$3 million through its Performing Artist Recovery Fund to provide financial support to 300 performing artists who have lost income during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
$2.5 million to the Start Network for its Start Fund, which will make grants to humanitarian agencies and enable them to respond earlier and faster to crises.
Enlight Foundation, the Hearst Foundations, the Kresge Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and Photowings
$2 million to expand CatchLight Local, a program in the Bay Area and Chicago that aims to improve the long-term sustainability of visual journalism.
Truist Foundation
$2 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the Anchor Institutions Create Economic Resilience program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. This program will create job opportunities and business growth to help economically distressed communities that have been hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Greater New Orleans Foundation
$1.3 million to nonprofit groups in the New Orleans area that are helping local residents continue to recover from Hurricane Ida, which struck in August.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$1 million to Moneythink to expand DecidED, its free college-affordability comparison tool that helps historically marginalized students achieve college success through better financial decision making.
Blue Shield of California
$1 million to the Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation, the philanthropy arm of the California Department of Education, to expand support for mental- and behavioral-health services for youths in the state’s school system.
New Grant Opportunity
The Nissan Foundation is accepting letters of intent from nonprofit groups for grants to support educational programs that help people see the world through multiple perspectives. Charities must serve communities surrounding the car manufacturer’s locations in Southern California, middle Tennessee, central Mississippi, Dallas/Ft. Worth, southeast Michigan, New York, and Atlanta. Letters of intent are due November 1.