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Citi Foundation Will Spend Another $100 Million on Jobs Program (Grants Roundup)

By  M.J. Prest
September 22, 2020
NPower trainees in Baltimore participate in a hands-on troubleshooting competition. <br/>NPower is one of the many community organizations that Citi Foundation provides grants to as part of our Pathways to Progress initiative. Citi and Citi Foundation are giving $100 million over three years for a global expansion of its Pathways to Progress program, which helps young people access jobs, internships, and career training. (NPower Inc.)
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NPower is one of the community organizations that receives grants through Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress program, which helps young people access jobs, internships, and career training.

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Citi and Citi Foundation

$100 million over three years for a global expansion of its Pathways to Progress program, which helps young people access jobs, internships, and career training. Including this commitment, the bank has poured a total of $300 million into the program since its creation in 2014.

3M

$50 million over five years to bolster racial-equity efforts, particularly in areas close to its headquarters in St. Paul, Minn. Among the first grants is $5 million to the United Negro College Fund to cover a scholarship and student-support program for students in St. Paul, with an emphasis in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

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Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Citi and Citi Foundation

$100 million over three years for a global expansion of its Pathways to Progress program, which helps young people access jobs, internships, and career training. Including this commitment, the bank has poured a total of $300 million into the program since its creation in 2014.

3M

$50 million over five years to bolster racial-equity efforts, particularly in areas close to its headquarters in St. Paul, Minn. Among the first grants is $5 million to the United Negro College Fund to cover a scholarship and student-support program for students in St. Paul, with an emphasis in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

Burnett Foundation

$25 million to the Texas Christian University and the University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine to establish an endowment for the operations of the TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine in perpetuity. The grant was partially funded from the estate of Anne Marion, who died in February at age 81. She was president of Burnett Ranches and the chairman of the Burnett Oil Company.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$25 million to 21 nonprofit organizations to address anti-Black racism; offer support services to Native Americans, who have been disproportionately affected by Covid-19; and strengthen voter education and mobilization during this year’s elections.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$24 million to 12 midsize art museums in the United States through its Art Museum Futures Fund, an emergency grant program to ameliorate the economic blow the pandemic has had on cultural institutions. Grantees received between $600,000 and $5.5 million each in this round.

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Lilly Endowment

$10.7 million to community foundations across Indiana through its Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow program.

Open Society Foundations

$5 million over five years to Conectas Direitos Humanos to expand the Brazilian human-rights organization’s efforts to lead and monitor legal cases in defense of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.

PepsiCo

$5 million to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Women’s Global Development and Prosperity program, which will support efforts by women farmers to build a more sustainable food system.

Pew Charitable Trusts

$5 million to the University of Virginia School of Nursing to endow the dean’s chair. The position will be named for Rebecca Rimel, who graduated from the nursing school in 1973 and recently stepped down as president of the Pew Charitable Trusts after 26 years as its leader.

James B. McClatchy Foundation

$3.7 million to four school districts in California’s Central Valley to help young immigrant children learn English before they enter kindergarten.

Intel Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and STEM Next Opportunity Fund

$3.3 million to establish the Million Girls Moonshot, which will offer STEM learning opportunities for 1 million school-age girls in the United States over the next five years. The STEM Next Opportunity Fund is contributing $1.3 million in the first year, and the Intel Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation are each granting $1 million.

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Google.org

$3 million to Hispanics in Philanthropy to support the PowerUp Fund, in partnership with Ureeka, which will provide direct support to hundreds of Latino-owned small businesses in California, New York, and Texas.

Read more about the PowerUp Fund here.

Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation

$3 million to create the Freedom Scholars program, which will give $250,000 over two years to 12 academics who are active in the movements for economic and social justice, particularly in the areas of abolitionist, Black, feminist, queer, radical, and anticolonialist studies.

Cushman Foundation

$1.6 million to develop sustainable programs at 11 organizations in California’s San Diego County that provide services to veterans, seniors, or children. The grants were administered by the Jewish Community Foundation in San Diego.

Richard King Mellon Foundation

$1.5 million to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to find a vaccine for acute flaccid myelitis, a disease that typically strikes children under age 5 and can cause paralysis and difficulties in talking or breathing.

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Home Depot Foundation

$1.3 million to Volunteers of America to build permanent supportive housing for military veterans, particularly women, in Florida, Houston, Los Angeles, and Montgomery, Ala.

Raikes Foundation

$1 million to six social-justice organizations that are working to dismantle anti-Black racism. The grantees are the Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute; NAACP Empowerment Programs; the Visionary Freedom Fund; the Communities for Just Schools Fund; Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research; and the Movement for Black Lives.

Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.

We welcome your thoughts and questions about this article. Please email the editors or submit a letter for publication.
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M.J. Prest
M.J. Prest has been writing about major gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004.
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