Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$180 million over four years to the World Health Organization and other global partners for efforts to eliminate cervical cancer worldwide by expanding prevention, screenings, and treatments of the deadly disease.
The commitment comprises $100 million to increase access to HPV vaccinations for girls in low-income countries, $50 million to develop new prophylactic HPV vaccines, and $30 million for research on a therapeutic vaccine for people who already have HPV.
Cancer Grand Challenges
$125 million to five international research teams that are working to overcome obstacles and advance cancer research in four areas: solid tumors in children; cancer inequities; T-cell receptors; and early-onset cancers.
The National Cancer Institute gave $50 million and Cancer Research UK donated $75 million to back the cash awards, with additional support from the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research and an international network of cancer organizations.
OneOhio Recovery Foundation
$51 million in its first round of grant making to support opioid-use prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts at nonprofit groups and other organizations that serve people in Ohio.
Semmes Foundation
$26.5 million to Trinity University to name the D.R. Semmes School of Science, endow its deanship and two science faculty positions, support undergraduate research opportunities, and advance faculty and professional development.
Douglas Ramsay Semmes, who died in 1976, was president of the Sarnosa Oil Corporation, in San Antonio.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$14 million through its Exploratory Cell Networks program to four collaborative projects that will bring together regional labs in California, the Mid-Atlantic, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle that specialize in genomics, cell biology, and synthetic biology in order to develop new measurement technologies.
National Health Care CEO Council on Gun Violence Prevention and Safety
$10 million to the Ad Council to back a $40 million media campaign to reduce firearm deaths and injuries in the United States.
AAPI Civic Engagement Fund
$6.2 million across 52 grants for efforts to advance racial justice in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across the United States.
Wegman Family Charitable Foundation
$5 million to St. John Fisher University’s Wegmans School of Nursing to create educational and experiential programs for nursing students, add to its endowment, and back programs to expand the pipeline of nurses to work in the region surrounding Rochester, N.Y.
Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative
$4 million across 70 summer enrichment programs to enroll children and youths from low-income families in Baltimore.
Richard King Mellon Foundation
$2.7 million to eight performing-arts organizations in the Pittsburgh area.
The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra each received $500,000; Pittsburgh Trust for Cultural received $475,000; and $215,000 went to Carnegie Mellon University to attract theatrical artists to Pittsburgh so that they can write and workshop their newest shows in the city’s theater district.
Charles E. Kaufman Foundation
$1.8 million for interdisciplinary scientific research at Carnegie Mellon University, Drexel University, Gettysburg College, the Pennsylvania State University, Temple University, and University of Pennsylvania.
James E. and A. Dano Davis Family Charities
$1 million to the Museum of Science & History to name the front lobby of the museum’s new facility in Jacksonville, Fla.
The museum also received $500,000 from Jill Davis, who serves as vice chair of its Board of Trustees, and her husband, Jed, who is the president and CEO of the Davis Family Office. His grandfather, James Davis, was one of the founders of the grocery chain Winn-Dixie.
Truist Foundation
$1 million over three years to Year Up to expand two of its workforce-development programs – in banking and customer success, and application development – to 2,400 young adults in cities nationwide, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Pittsburgh, Tampa, and Washington.
New Grant Opportunity
New Music USA is accepting applications for grants through its New Music Organization Fund, which supports nonprofit organizations, performance groups, dance organizations, festivals, presenters, and venues. Organizations may apply for grants worth up to $15,000 each for general operating support if they had an operating budget under $3 million in the past three years. Grants will also be awarded for the creation of new work or live music for dance projects. The fund expects to make between 60 and 70 grants in this round. Applications are due April 4.
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