Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Cisco Foundation
$100 million over 10 years to make grants and impact investments to nonprofit groups that are using technology to combat climate change and promote community education, carbon reduction, climate resilience, green jobs, and activism.
American Express
$40 million to the Accion Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit community-development financial institution, to offer loans and other resources to small-business owners in the United States, with a focus on Black entrepreneurs.
Sunderland Foundation
$30 million to the University of Washington to renovate the Haring Center for Inclusive Education, which provides special education and early learning to children and youths with neurodevelopmental disorders and other disabilities.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
$15 million to the Child Mind Institute for a five-year project to expand access to mental-health services for children and adolescents in Greece.
JPMorgan Chase
$12.5 million to the Financial Health Network, Cabrini Green Legal Aid, Safer Foundation, the Center for Employment Opportunity, and other community organizations in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Chicago, Nashville, and elsewhere to help people with criminal backgrounds train for in-demand, well-paying jobs and give them the skills and tools needed for financial success.
Kresge Foundation
$8.4 million to 14 community-based nonprofit organizations through its Climate Change, Health, and Equity program. Each charity will receive $600,000 to improve the health and well-being of their communities, with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color.
Henry L. Hillman Foundation
$7 million to 57 arts and cultural organizations in the Pittsburgh area that have experienced financial declines during the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the largest grants was $1 million to the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, which operates the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Science Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum.
The 1954 Project
$5 million through its inaugural Luminary Awards, which will give grants of $1 million each to five recipients and their founders. The first round of winners are Adrian Mims and the Calculus Project; Hiewet Senghor and the Black Teacher Collaborative; Nicole Lynn Lewis and Generation Hope; Aimée Eubanks Davis and Braven; and Sharif El-Mekki and the Center for Black Educator Development.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and United Nations Foundation
$5 million pledge to Unicef for an interactive social-media campaign to promote childhood vaccinations. Through the end of April, the grant makers will donate $1 for every like, share, or comment on social-media posts that mention Unicef and use the hashtag #VaccinesWork.
Bain Capital
$4 million commitment to the GreenLight Fund to scale its social programs that serve the needs of children and families in 10 cities. Its services include early-childhood literacy, college access, teacher effectiveness, health, economic mobility, and youths in foster care.
Pew Charitable Trusts
$4 million over five years to Benefits Data Trust to expand its services that help qualified residents of Philadelphia file for the public benefits they are entitled to receive.
Golub Capital
$3.5 million to Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management to sponsor its board fellows program for five years. The program places business-school students on the boards of directors at Chicago-area nonprofit groups. The grant will also create a second Golub Capital Social Impact Lab.
Walmart
$2.9 million to the National Skills Coalition for projects to advance an inclusive economic recovery over the next two years. These include a digital-literacy policy project, a program to increase skills attainment for essential workers, technical assistance for states that are developing policies to increase attainment of credentials for workers without degrees, a series of industry panels to speak in front of Congress, and resources and training opportunities for partners working on racial equity.
Kresge Foundation
$2 million commitment to bolster vaccine access and health equity throughout Detroit. It has so far given $1 million to 13 community health centers, community-development organizations, human-services agencies, and outreach campaigns in the city, and it will award the remaining $1 million in the coming weeks.
Siemens Foundation
$1.4 million to five nonprofit groups that are conducting direct outreach to promote Covid-19 vaccine distribution in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. The recipients are the Morehouse School of Medicine, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the Urban Indian Health Institute, UnidosUS, and United Way New York City in partnership with Choose Healthy Life.
National Park Foundation
$1 million through its Open OutDoors for Kids Hybrid Learning grant program, which has awarded grants to 32 National Park Service sites and their partners to enhance innovative distance-learning programs to benefit teachers and students, especially in lower-income communities.
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