Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Goldman Sachs Group
$100 million over 10 years for One Million Black Women, its new program to help rectify the gender and racial discrimination Black women face in access to health care, investment capital, housing, education, job creation, career advancement, digital connectivity, and financial health. The grant commitment is in addition to $10 billion in direct investment capital the banking group has pledged to boost organizations with Black women leaders, financial institutions, and other partners by 2030.
J.P. Fletcher Foundation
$25.5 million to Boston Children’s Hospital to establish the Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center and develop targeted treatments for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Zander is a family therapist and the Fletcher Foundation’s president.
Google.org
$25 million commitment to its new Impact Challenge for Women and Girls, which will make grants to nonprofit and social organizations that are advancing women’s economic empowerment and developing pathways to prosperity for of women and girls around the world. Grantees will also receive mentoring from Google employees as well as advertising credit and additional technical support.
Lilly Endowment
$16.8 million in Covid-19 relief grants, including $15 million to Indiana United Ways to support its statewide network of local United Ways. A separate grant of $1.8 million is going to the United Way of Central Indiana to help meet community needs in Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, and Morgan Counties.
(The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)
Oak Foundation
$10.3 million to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for a new program through the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse. The program aims to disseminate effective strategies to stop the abuse of children around the world.
Friday Foundation
$10.5 million to the Seattle Art Museum, in addition to 19 abstract expressionist paintings and sculptures from the late art collectors Richard Lang and Jane Lang Davis.
Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation
$10 million to the University of Buffalo to bolster diversity programs and student scholarships, and to endow faculty positions.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
$6.9 million in Covid-19 relief to 32 recipients in the United States, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
Roundhouse Foundation
$6 million to the High Desert Museum to expand educational programs, create immersive visitor experiences, and update its permanent exhibition on Indigenous people of the Columbia Plateau.
Kaiser Permanente
$5 million to the East Bay Community Foundation to create the Covid-19 African American Education and Outreach Partnership, a campaign to increase access in Black communities to accurate public health information and resources about the coronavirus pandemic.
John A. Hartford Foundation
$1.5 million over 3 years to the National Committee for Quality Assurance to promote the use of its health-care quality measures to evaluate how well clinicians are treating older adults.
BorgWarner
$1 million to Kettering University to award need-based scholarships, focusing on Black and Hispanic students who will participate in an engineering co-op program at this company that develops clean-energy technology for vehicles.
Ford Foundation and Hearthland Foundation
$1 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Speed Art Museum, in Louisville, Ky., to jointly acquire the artist Amy Sherald’s painting of Breonna Taylor and support an exhibition at the Smithsonian this spring. Police in Louisville shot and killed Taylor in March 2020 while serving a search warrant for a man who no longer lived in her apartment.
In a separate grant, the Ford Foundation is giving the Speed Art Museum an additional $1.2 million to cover an exhibition inspired by Taylor’s life, as well as free admission and community programs.
New Grant Opportunity
The Elevate Prize Foundation will award $5 million to social entrepreneurs through the foundation’s annual Elevate Prize competition. Ten winning organizations will each receive a grant of $250,000, with an additional $50,000 going to each group’s founder. The remaining $2 million will be awarded in discretionary funding for follow-on support. The foundation awards the prizes in partnership with MIT Solve, and one of the 10 prizes will be allocated for MIT Solve’s first U.S. Challenge on Antiracist Technology. Applications are due May 5.
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