Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
$200 million to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to build the new Arthur M. Blank Hospital, a new 1.5 million-square-foot pediatric hospital that is scheduled to open in 2025.
Harold Alfond Foundation
$101 million to Colby College for a new athletics and recreation center and to spur economic development in the college’s town of Waterville, Me.
This gift comes as part of the $500 million commitment the foundation announced earlier this month to support organizations in Maine.
Jay Pritzker Foundation
$100 million to the Foundation for California Community Colleges to ease financial burdens for students at community colleges in the state through scholarships and emergency financial assistance.
Open Society Foundations
$70 million commitment for additional Covid-19 relief through nonprofit organizations in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa. This follows $130 million in pandemic aid that the foundations pledged in April.
Surdna Foundation
$36 million commitment over three years to advance racial justice in the United States, combat anti-Black racism, and meet the urgent needs of Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities during the pandemic.
Flamboyan Arts Fund
$15 million to support and sustain the arts in Puerto Rico as the island contends with financial hardship during the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing recovery from Hurricane Maria in 2017 and flooding from Tropical Storm Isaias in July. With the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, 10 nonprofit organizations in Puerto Rico will receive two years of bilingual arts-management training and consulting services to boost fund raising, strategic planning, digital marketing, and resilience training for responding to natural disasters.
The fund is a partnership between the Flamboyan Foundation, the composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, his family, and the Broadway musical Hamilton.
Lilly Endowment
$7.5 million to the American Red Cross in support of disaster-relief efforts throughout the United States in response to wildfires on the West Coast, powerful Atlantic hurricanes, and multiple tropical storms.
Kavli Foundation
$5 million matching grant to the University of Chicago for the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. The grant matches an anonymous gift of $5 million to name the institute’s directorship after the late David Schramm, a professor of theoretical physics at the university who died in a plane crash in 1997. He was 52.
Koret Foundation
$5 million to seven food banks and meal-delivery services in the San Francisco Bay Area as they face dramatically increased demand during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Swenson Family Foundation
$5 million to Chapman University to build the Swenson Family Hall of Engineering in the university’s Keck Center for Science and Engineering.
Elevate Prize Foundation
$3 million to 10 social entrepreneurs through the foundation’s inaugural Elevate Prize competition. Each winning organization has received a grant of $250,000, with an additional $50,000 going to each group’s founder. The foundation awarded the prizes in partnership with MIT Solve.
M.G. and Lillie A. Johnson Foundation
$2 million to the University of Houston-Victoria to build a student recreation and health center.
Atlanta United Foundation
$1.5 million to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to build 100 soccer pitches across Georgia before the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Booz Allen Foundation
$1 million through its Covid-19 Innovation Fund to 21 nonprofit groups, university projects, entrepreneurs, and start-ups in the United States to support innovative ideas to solve some of the pandemic’s most critical problems.
Verizon
$1 million to We Mean Business to help a global coalition of nonprofit groups work with companies to reduce their carbon emissions by 50 percent before 2030.
New Grant Opportunity
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in partnership with Lever for Change, is accepting letters of interest for grants from its Racial Equity 2030 program, which will make $90 million in grants to resolve racial inequities and advance social justice over the next 10 years. Up to 10 teams will be selected as finalists, and each will receive a one-year $1 million planning grant, which includes nine months of capacity-building support to develop their project and strengthen their application. An additional five awards adding up to $80 million will be announced in the summer of 2022. At least three organizations will each receive a $20 million grant. Two additional groups will each receive a $10 million grant. Applicants must embrace and reflect the values of racial equity and justice. Letters of interest are due January 28, and complete applications are due February 25.
Read more about Racial Equity 2030 here.
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