Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
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$38 million to four organizations to expand affordable-housing options and solutions to homelessness in California’s Silicon Valley. This is the first round of grants from its $150 million commitment to affordable housing in the region.
The grants are $14 million to MidPen Housing Corporation’s 1171 Sonora Court in Sunnyvale; $9.8 million to PATH Ventures’ Villas at Buena Vista in San Jose; $8.3 million for First Community Housing’s Lighthouse at Grace in San Jose; and $5.8 million to Excelerate Housing Group’s Elevate Apartments in Alameda County.
Kataly Foundation
$31.8 million over five years through its Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective to support 78 organizations working at the intersection of environmental and social justice in communities of color.
Apple
$30 million to expand its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, which the tech giant created last year with a $100 million commitment.
New grants will support its Global Hispanic-Serving Institution Equity Innovation Hub; expand education opportunities at community colleges and historically Black colleges and universities; recruit Hispanic and Latinx tech developers and entrepreneurs for the Apple Entrepreneur Camp; and aid leaders working to advance reforms in criminal and environmental justice.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$16 million through its Essential Open Source Software for Science program to fund 35 projects in open-source software for biomedicine, as well as 14 groups to support their leaders and employees who have historically been underrepresented in scientific open source.
Ballmer Group
$7 million to Concordance to expand its efforts to reduce reincarceration rates among people recently released from prison, with a focus on Black men.
Overdeck Family Foundation
$6 million over three years to Saga Education to expand its programs that place tutors within schools to support students who are struggling with math.
The foundation also pledged $3 million over three years to Teaching Lab and $2.1 million over three years to Leading Educators to offer professional development for teachers.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$4.9 million to Western Governors University for five projects to close existing equity gaps in postsecondary education for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students across the United States.
Windgate Foundation
$4.3 million to Arkansas Tech University. Of the gift total, $4 million will endow a need-based scholarship. The remaining $300,000 will purchase simulation equipment to train nursing students at the university.
Wilf Family Foundations
$4 million to 27 organizations that are working toward racial equity and social justice. The grantees include Camp Equity, Teach for America, Black Girls Code, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Black Voters Matter, the Texas Civil Rights Project, the Vera Institute of Justice, and the Anti-Defamation League.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
$2 million commitment to Hispanics in Philanthropy for its Family Unity Fund, which works to reunite migrant families that federal agents separated at the U.S.-Mexico border from April 2018 to January 2020.
JPMorgan Chase
$1.3 million for four projects in the New Orleans region to help its most vulnerable residents develop resilience strategies to contend with natural disasters brought on by climate change.
The largest grant of $500,000 went to the BuildNOLA Mobilization Fund to invest in businesses owned by people of color to enable them to participate in green infrastructure opportunities.
The bank also pledged $200,000 to the League of California Community Foundations and the California Fire Foundation for wildfire recovery and preparedness.
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
$1 million to the American Red Cross and the Greater New Orleans Foundation for disaster-relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ida. Each organization has received $500,000.
Home Depot Foundation
$1 million commitment for immediate disaster relief and long-term recovery efforts in the areas where Hurricane Ida struck.
MI Charitable Foundation
$1 million over five years to Pennsylvania State University for unrestricted support of its Four Diamonds program, which cares for children with cancer who are being treated at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, and to support childhood-cancer research at the Penn State College of Medicine.
Wells Fargo
$1 million to the Caravanserai Project, the Inland Empire Community Collaborative, and the Inland Empire Community Foundation to strengthen mission-driven organizations in California’s Inland Empire.
New Grant Opportunity
Robin Hood will make $10 million in grants through its FUEL for 50 program to support parents and caregivers of children under age 3 in New York City. Fifty nonprofit groups that help parents and caregivers are eligible to apply for $25,000 in unrestricted grants, access to workshops and support for early-childhood development, and opportunities for up to $1 million in future grant making from the antipoverty group. Applications are due November 19.
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