Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Citi Foundation
$50 million commitment to make grants to nonprofit community-development financial institutions across the United States to help people from low-income and marginalized communities build wealth and assets.
The grants will back advancements in human capital and talent development, financial and risk-sharing models, technology, operations, leadership, and research.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$25.7 million over five years to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, a research affiliate of CGIAR, to expand the use of biodiversity preserved in gene banks.
It will provide access for small-scale farmers worldwide to new crop varieties that resist climate changes.
Bezos Earth Fund
$17 million for Future Seeds, a new CGIAR gene bank that is collecting seeds for beans, cassava, and forages to safeguard the world’s food supply in the future.
Civitas Resources
$10 million pledge to charitable groups that are providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainians and refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
H. Hovnanian Family Foundation
$10 million to Villanova University to back a speaker series that focuses on the civil exchange of ideas on current issues, modernize its Falvey Library, and endow a chair in the DiLella Center for Real Estate within the Villanova School of Business.
Justice and Mobility Fund
$7.5 million over three years to the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund. The grant is unrestricted to this organization that expands economic development and employment opportunities for previously incarcerated people.
The Justice and Mobility Fund was created by Blue Meridian Partners and the Ford Foundation and supported by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies.
Education Cannot Wait
$5 million to Save the Children and Unicef for their efforts to continue the education of 875,000 school-aged children from Ukraine who have had to flee their homes.
LEGO Foundation
$5 million to the Global Fund for Children for its Partnership to Educate All Kids program, which will work with 50 community-based organizations that are addressing educational gaps resulting from pandemic-related school closures. The program will prioritize children ages 6 to 12 from marginalized communities in Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
$4 million to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Program to help those displaced by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
Each humanitarian group has received $2 million.
Breakthrough Prize Foundation
$3 million to support Ukrainian mathematicians, physicists, and life scientists who have had to flee their country during the conflict with Russia.
Gilead Foundation
$3 million to humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
Chicago Community Trust
$2.5 million to seven grantees to provide skills training and connect Black and Latinx workers with high-quality employment opportunities in skilled trades in Chicago.
North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
$1.9 million to North Carolina Central University to increase the number of its students who go on to careers in pharmaceutical and life sciences.
Black Future Co-op Fund
$1.1 million to 21 organizations led by Black women who are working to advance the wealth, health, and well-being of Black communities in Washington.
Each grantee will receive $50,000 in unrestricted support.
Petco Love
$1 million to animal-welfare organizations that are rescuing pets in Ukraine and supporting Ukrainian pet owners as they seek refuge with their animals in neighboring countries.
New Grant Opportunity
Amazon Web Services is accepting applications for its 2022 Imagine Grant Program, open to nonprofit organizations in the United States that are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Its Momentum to Modernize category will award grants worth up to $30,000 in unrestricted financial support, as well as up to $10,000 in promotional credit and technical support, for projects to upgrade technology that support each grantee’s mission. For its Go Further, Faster category, grants worth up to $150,000 in unrestricted financial support, as well as up to $100,000 in promotional credit and technical support, are available to bolster nonprofit groups that employ cloud technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other high-tech solutions. Proposals are due June 1.
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