Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
O. Wayne Rollins Foundation
$65 million pledge to Emory University for the R. Randall Rollins Building, which will be built next to the existing School of Public Health facilities. Construction is slated to begin next year.
IBM
$25 million over four years to Code and Response, a program that will award grants to technology start-ups delivering critical aid to communities in need. In 2019, the focus is disaster preparation and recovery, with an emphasis on health and wellness.
ALS Association and Tow Foundation
$6 million to the New York Genome Center for research at the Center for Genomics of Neurodegenerative Disease. The ALS Association pledged $3.5 million, including a $1 million commitment from its Greater New York Chapter; the Tow Foundation also gave $2.5 million.
Moody Foundation
$5 million to the Presidential Leadership Scholars program, which brings together midcareer professionals to meet with top academics, business and civic leaders, and former U.S. presidents including George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Parker Foundation
$2.5 million to the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group to provide in-home health care to high-risk older adults with multiple chronic health needs.
New York Life Foundation
$2 million to Classroom Inc. for Read to Lead, its effort to help middle-school students develop leadership and reading skills through after-school literacy programs.
A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation
$1 million over three years to Genesys Works National Capital Region for its programs that provide career counseling to high-school students in the Washington area.
HNI Corporation
$1 million to Iowa State University to help build its Student Innovation Center.
Kautz Family Foundation
$1.5 million to the University of Cincinnati to enhance the Attic, a creative space within the Carl H. Lindner College of Business.
New Grant Opportunity
The NoVo Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for the Life Story Grants program, through which the foundation has committed $10 million to end commercial sexual exploitation. Nonprofit groups working in housing, medical needs, law enforcement, trauma and mental health, immigration, and youth protection, particularly those helping girls and women from marginalized communities, may apply. Letters of inquiry are due April 19.
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