Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Liberty Mutual Foundation
$40 million to 450 nonprofit groups that work in increasing accessibility for individuals with disabilities; services for the homeless; and academic opportunities for youths in need.
Some of the largest grants include $1 million to the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program and $1 million to the Home for Little Wanderers, which provides services in behavioral, emotional, social, and educational development and physical well-being for at-risk children and families.
Heinz Endowments
$30 million over six years to Carnegie Mellon University to establish the Center for Shared Prosperity, which will conduct research and programs to address socioeconomic inequities and well-being in the greater Pittsburgh region and foster collaborative projects between the university and its surrounding community. A portion of the grant will create an endowment to support the center in perpetuity.
BrightFocus Foundation
$25.3 million to support 106 scientific research projects on Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
$19 million to organizations working in the arts, civic life, education, and health and human services in the southeast Michigan region.
Mastercard Impact Fund
$10 million commitment for critical needs to install portable hospitals in India that will include 2,000 additional beds for patients in an effort to contain the ongoing Covid-19 surge in the country.
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
$3 million in a second round of Covid-19 relief for nonprofit arts and culture organizations. The grants include $1.4 million in general operating support to 175 grantees in the Chicago region and 40 in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.
American Institutes for Research, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation
$2 million to Johns Hopkins University, Northeastern University, and the University of California Santa Cruz as the winners of the 2021 Institutional Challenge Grant competition. The competition awards cash grants to universities that partner with public agencies or nonprofit organizations to address problems that affect youths, including suicide, employment, and educational inequality.
Bank of America
$1.5 million to advance racial equality and economic opportunity in Massachusetts. King Boston has received $1 million to create a memorial on Boston Common in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, who met and married in Boston in the 1950s. It will also use the money for the new Center for Economic Justice in Nubian Square and to support a lecture series that uses the arts and humanities to promote antiracist ideals.
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers has received the remaining $500,000 to expand Covid-19 vaccine distribution in vulnerable areas through the state’s 52 community health centers.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$1.5 million over three years to the University of New Haven and Yale University to expand the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall, which offers for-credit courses to incarcerated individuals at Connecticut’s MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution and enables prisoners to earn a two-year associate’s degree from the University of New Haven.
Richard King Mellon Foundation
$1.4 million to the August Wilson African American Cultural Center for an artist-in-residency program that supports emerging artists of color who are based in Pittsburgh.
Walmart.org
$1.2 million to Good360 to expand distribution of critically needed basic personal and household goods to communities in need and to sustain its operating model throughout its nonprofit network.
New Grant Opportunities
Amazon Web Services is accepting applications for its 2021 Imagine Grant Program, open to nonprofit organizations in the United States that are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Its Momentum to Modernize category will award grants worth up to $30,000 in unrestricted financial support, as well as up to $10,000 in promotional credit and technical support, for projects to upgrade technology that support each grantee’s mission. For its Go Further, Faster category, grants worth up to $150,000 in unrestricted financial support, as well as up to $100,000 in promotional credit and technical support, are available to bolster nonprofit groups that employ cloud technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other high-tech solutions. Proposals are due June 30.
The Charles Bronfman Prize is now accepting nominations for its 2022 award to an individual or team under age 50 whose humanitarian work encompasses Jewish values. The annual award carries a $100,000 cash prize. Previous winners have worked in the areas of criminal-justice reform, help for immigration and refugees, medicine, the environment, education, humanitarian relief, human rights, and the arts. Nominations are due August 18.
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