Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
FedEx
$100 million to Yale University to create the Center for Natural Carbon Capture, a new institute that will boost interdisciplinary research and develop solutions to enhance the Earth’s natural processes to store atmospheric carbon and reduce pollution.
Bloomberg Philanthropies
$25 million to New York University to endow a fellowship program at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. The fellowship is named for former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s daughter, Georgina, and mother, Charlotte, both of whom graduated from the university.
Genentech and the Genentech Foundation
$16 million to 40 grantees that are working to dismantle systemic racism in health care and job pathways in science, technology, engineering, and math for Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
Bristol Myers Squibb
$11 million to 56 organizations that are working to deliver health care to underserved communities nationwide. The grants come as part of the pharmaceutical company’s $150 million commitment in August to advance diversity, inclusion, and health equity, with a focus on improving cardiovascular health, hematology, immunology, and oncology among people of Asian, Latino, Pacific Islander, and African descent.
Kislak Family Foundation
$10 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum for its World War II in the Air exhibition and gallery, which is expected to begin construction next year.
Jay Kislak, who died in 2018, was a naval aviator in World War II who later founded the Kislak Organization, a real-estate investment company in Miami.
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
$10 million to Creighton University and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix to partner on a program that will improve access to and quality of health care for low-income communities and people of color in Arizona’s Maricopa County. The grant will also support skills development for the university’s medical students at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul’s Virginia G. Piper Medical Clinic.
GreenLight Fund Bay Area
$4 million to address poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among the first grantees are EveryoneOn and Food Connect, which are helping people who have suffered economically during the Covid-19 pandemic.
UJA-Federation of New York
$2.7 million to provide emergency food relief for people in need in New York. Of the total, $2.2 million is going to the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.
Electrify America
$1.6 million to four grantees that support science, technology, engineering, and math education in kindergarten through 12th grade and at the community-college level to raise awareness and education about zero-emission vehicles and develop a pipeline of workers for the industry. The recipients are Ecology Action, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, the National Energy Foundation, and Valley Clean Air Now.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
$1 million to 18 grantees through its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Capacity Building Program, which will give each recipient up to $60,000 over two years to improve organizational strength at nonprofit groups through board development, leadership trainings, reviews of internal policies, and strategic planning.
Samsung
$1 million to the North Texas Food Bank and other food-relief organizations in Central and North Texas for recovery efforts following last month’s winter storm.
Zoom Cares
$1 million through its EdInnovation Awards to six nonprofit groups working in education using video communications. The recipients are Cambiar Education, the Center for Black Educator Development, Kabakoo Academies, Open Up Resources, Re:Coded, and STEM From Dance.
New Grant Opportunity
The Citi Foundation is accepting proposals from nonprofit organizations that work directly with small businesses owned by people of color that have been harmed the most by the Covid-19 crisis. The foundation will provide unrestricted grants of up to $500,000 each to nonprofit groups that provide direct technical assistance to entrepreneurs of color. A total of $25 million will be given through the program. Proposals are due April 12.
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