Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation
$115 million to 400 nonprofit groups throughout New York State that address social determinants of health. Among the largest grants was $2 million to City Mission of Schenectady to expand its shelter for survivors of domestic violence.
Goldman Sachs
$25 million to eight universities for Market Madness: HBCU Possibilities Program, which offers skills training for jobs in finance to students at historically Black colleges and universities. The participating institutions this year are Florida A&M University, Hampton University, Howard University, Morehouse College, Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Prairie View A&M University, and Spelman College.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$15.3 million to enhance education in computing and data sciences at two universities and create a fellowship at a health-care center in Florida. The foundation is giving $10 million to Florida International University to expand the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences. The University of Miami will receive $4.3 million to back its Institute of Data Science and Computing. Baptist Health South Florida is getting $1 million to endow a fellowship in health-care innovation.
Rockefeller Foundation
$15 million commitment to the Rockefeller Opportunity Collective, which is making grants to support training, networking opportunities, and financial assistance to help small businesses owned by entrepreneurs who are Black, Indigenous, or other people of color.
Diageo North America
$10 million commitment to endow student financial aid at 25 historically Black colleges and universities.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
$9 million to Voices for Health Justice, a collaborative project from Community Catalyst, Community Change, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities to make grants to 25 state and community-based organizations that are working to improve access to health care for minority populations.
Intel
$5 million over five years to North Carolina Central University to create a new technology law and policy center at this historically Black university.
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
$4.1 million across 16 grants to bolster technology work-force development and education from kindergarten through college.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$3.7 million over three years to the University of California at Los Angeles for Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration, a project within the university’s Institute of American Cultures to collect data, first-person testimonies, artifacts, and police files for future research on racial and social justice.
Comcast NBCUniversal
$2.5 million commitment to Echoing Green for its Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund, which will enhance the work of 500 social enterprises that are addressing systemic racism.
JPMorgan Chase
$1.5 million to organizations in rural communities that work in work-force and neighborhood development. The largest grant of $1 million went to Achieving the Dream to bolster its network of rural community colleges in preparing students for technology jobs.
Ally
$1.3 million to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and other professional and university groups to offer scholarships and programs for Black students pursuing careers in the law, public policy, insurance, and financial services.
Mavs Foundation
$1.3 million in emergency grants to provide temporary housing, economic relief for rent and utilities, and food for people in Texas who have been displaced after Winter Storm Uri devastated the state with cold and snow. The foundation is the charitable arm of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team. Some of the grant money comes from the team’s owner, Mark Cuban; its CEO, Cynt Marshall; the head coach, Rick Carlisle; star players Luka Doncic, Tim Hardaway Jr., Maxi Kleber, and Dwight Powell; and Chime, a financial company that sponsors its jerseys.
CenterPoint Energy
$1 million to the Houston Harris County Winter Storm Relief Fund, which has been established at the Greater Houston Community Foundation and United Way of Greater Houston. It is making grants for relief and recovery efforts to help people in need of home repairs, food, or rent and utility assistance following Winter Storm Uri in Texas.
Credit One Bank
$1 million to Best Friends Animal Society to expand its national operations and outreach to animal shelters and rescue groups and to promote fostering, adoption, and spay-and-neuter practices.
Newman’s Own Foundation
$1 million to the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp to rebuild several of the summer camp’s buildings that were destroyed in a fire on February 12. The camp was founded by the late actor Paul Newman in 1988.
Pascale Sykes Foundation
$1 million to New Jersey Community Capital and the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey to support Black-owned businesses in the state, particularly entrepreneurs who have suffered economic losses during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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