Grants Roundup: $5.3 Million for Equity in Bay Area, $1 Million for National Park Trails

Here are notable new grants compiled by The Chronicle:

San Francisco Foundation

The community foundation awarded about $5.27 million in the first round of grants reflecting its new focus on racial and economic equity and its new grant-making areas of people, place, and power.

Recipients include California Calls, an alliance that received $450,000 to further its work helping African Americans participate in civic life; the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, which got $235,000 to help low-income families find housing; and Californians for Safety and Justice, which received $50,000 for its work ensuring people benefit from Proposition 47, a state law that reduces some drug-possession felonies to misdemeanors.

REI Foundation

$1 million to the National Park Foundation to restore trails at Mount Rainier and Olympic national parks in Washington state. Philanthropists Mike and Sue Raney also contributed $2 million to the project.

New York Women’s Foundation

$2.91 million to 49 organizations working to help women and families gain economic security. Recipients include Strive/East Harlem Employment Services, Girls Write Now, and the Red Umbrella Project, which each received $70,000.

Tufts Health Plan Foundation

$1.8 million to community programs in New England that serve older adults. Recipients include the Friends of Yarmouth Council on Aging and Greater Boston Legal Services.

Osteopathic Heritage Foundation

$1.8 million to seven agencies that serve older adults in Franklin County, Ohio.

Mat-Su Health Foundation

$1.7 million to seven organizations in Alaska. Recipients include HeartReach Pregnancy Center ($500,000) and Set Free Alaska ($97,000).

Bezos Family Foundation and Nellie Mae Education Foundation

$1.5 million and $1 million, respectively, to help the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation develop the Woodrow Wilson Academy and Walter Buckley Teaching and Learning Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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