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Coil Commits $100 Million to New Fund; Salesforce Gives $18 Million to Schools (Grants Roundup)

By  M.J. Prest
September 18, 2019
Salesforce is giving $18.2 million to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts to expand educational opportunities for students, teachers, and administrators in California’s Bay Area. Some of the money is going to the education nonprofit groups CORE and Blueprint Schools Network.
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Salesforce is giving $18.2 million to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts to expand educational opportunities for students, teachers, and administrators in California’s Bay Area. Some of the money is going to the education nonprofit groups CORE and Blueprint Schools Network.

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Coil

$100 million over five years to create Grant for the Web, a collaboration with Creative Commons and the Mozilla Foundation that will make grants to support alternative online business models that benefit the public good. Coil is a tech startup that operates a blogging platform where writers are paid in cryptocurrency.

Salesforce

$18.2 million to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts to expand educational opportunities for students, teachers, and administrators in California’s Bay Area. San Francisco Unified School District received $8.5 million, Oakland Unified School District was awarded $8.7 million, and $500,000 each went to the education nonprofit groups CORE and Blueprint Schools Network.

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Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Coil

$100 million over five years to create Grant for the Web, a collaboration with Creative Commons and the Mozilla Foundation that will make grants to support alternative online business models that benefit the public good. Coil is a tech startup that operates a blogging platform where writers are paid in cryptocurrency.

Salesforce

$18.2 million to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts to expand educational opportunities for students, teachers, and administrators in California’s Bay Area. San Francisco Unified School District received $8.5 million, Oakland Unified School District was awarded $8.7 million, and $500,000 each went to the education nonprofit groups CORE and Blueprint Schools Network.

Michael J. Fox Foundation

$5 million to three international research teams to bolster genetic research and treatments for Parkinson’s disease in Africa, East Asia, and India.

Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation

$4 million to the Interlochen Center for the Arts to build a new facility that will add waterfront housing for students, faculty, and visiting artists.

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PetSmart Charities

$3 million over three years to Meals on Wheels America to establish a national pet-food pantry and veterinary-care program that will provide home-delivered meals and veterinary care to pets of homebound seniors.

John A. Hartford Foundation

$2.6 million over three years to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation to continue Kaiser Health News, a journalism project that operates a news desk dedicated to reporting on issues that pertain to aging and older adults’ health care.

IDC Foundation

$2 million to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation to support faculty leadership and interdisciplinary research in the study of housing, and to develop new housing models that address shifts in demographics, challenges of climate resilience, and affordability.

Carnival Foundation

$1 million to Direct Relief and other nonprofit groups for disaster-recovery efforts following Hurricane Dorian’s direct hit on the Bahamas.

William Penn Foundation

$1 million to Keystone Counts for a nonpartisan effort to support a fair and accurate count of Pennsylvanians in the 2020 census.

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New Grant Opportunity

The AARP Foundation is seeking proposals for direct service, research, education, outreach, and field-building projects that aim to improve social connectedness among older adults. Nonprofit organizations in the United States may apply for grants between $50,000 and $250,000 per year for up to three years, depending on the scope of the project. Applications are due October 18.

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.

M.J. Prest has been writing about major gifts, grant making, and nonprofit-executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Email M.J.

We welcome your thoughts and questions about this article. Please email the editors or submit a letter for publication.
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