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Grants Roundup: $400 Million for Emory U.; $18 Million for Job Training

By  M.J. Prest
January 10, 2018
A $400 pledge to Emory University will go toward research, improvements to patient care at the Winship Cancer Institute, and more.
Ann Borden/Emory University
A $400 pledge to Emory University will go toward research, improvements to patient care at the Winship Cancer Institute, and more.

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

$400 million to Emory University for medical research, facility upgrades, and improvements to patient care at the Winship Cancer Institute and a planned health-sciences research building on the university’s Druid Hills campus.

Wells Fargo

$18 million to United Way Worldwide for a new program to provide skills training and other assistance to help 1 million people find better-paying jobs within five years.

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Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

$400 million to Emory University for medical research, facility upgrades, and improvements to patient care at the Winship Cancer Institute and a planned health-sciences research building on the university’s Druid Hills campus.

Wells Fargo

$18 million to United Way Worldwide for a new program to provide skills training and other assistance to help 1 million people find better-paying jobs within five years.

Lilly Endowment

$10 million to the Children’s Bureau to endow its work to protect children who have been abused or neglected or who are living in foster care in Indianapolis.

Walther Cancer Foundation

$10 million to Purdue University’s Center for Cancer Research to develop drug-discovery trials and new treatments for cancer.

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Open Philanthropy Project

$6.4 million to Arizona State University for a clinical trial to test a broad-spectrum cancer vaccine.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

$1.5 million to the United Nations Foundation as the fiscal sponsor for the U.S. Climate Alliance and the California Global Climate Action Summit. The summit, which is scheduled for September in San Francisco, will bring together governors, legislators, CEOs, and leaders of charities working to find solutions to climate change.

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$1.4 million to Oregon State University for a study of microbial organisms that date back billions of years and were critical in shaping the evolution of our environment.

Moody Foundation

$1 million to Southern Methodist University to renovate its arts school and support cross-disciplinary research on education and human development.

New Grant Opportunities

Belk, the department store headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., has committed $15 million over five years to Project Hometown, its new grant-making program to bolster community-development organizations that strengthen hometowns throughout the southern United States.

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The Barr Foundation has expanded its climate program with an additional $5 million in grants available in 2018 for climate-resilience projects. Grants will be made to charities working to address the inevitable effects of climate change on coastal cities.

Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.

We welcome your thoughts and questions about this article. Please email the editors or submit a letter for publication.
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M.J. Prest
M.J. Prest has been writing about major gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004.
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