Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
James Irvine Foundation
$186.5 million over seven years to continue its Fair Work program, which makes grants to improve job conditions and pay for workers in low-wage industries in California.
Revisit this podcast featuring Don Howard, president and CEO of the James Irvine Foundation, about the program when it began in 2018.
Foundation to Combat Antisemitism
$25 million to establish the #StandUpToJewishHate social-media campaign to encourage non-Jewish Americans to become better allies against harassment, vandalism, and assault targeting the Jewish community.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$20 million to back interdisciplinary cyber-policy programs at two historically Black and two Hispanic-serving institutions.
The recipients are Florida A&M University, Florida International University, Spelman College, and Turtle Mountain Community College.
The Hewlett Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation
$17 million to Driscoll Children’s Hospital to hire more pediatric specialists and advance health care for children in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving With Bipolar Disorder
$15 million to advance scientific understanding of bipolar disorder’s genetic underpinnings.
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the New York Genome Center will use their share of the grant to create the BD² Genetics Platform, a project to analyze more than 30,000 samples from people with bipolar disorder in Africa, Central America, South America, and Asia.
The grant to the CommonMind Consortium, a partnership of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the University of Pittsburgh, and the California Institute of Technology, will support the BD² Brain Omics Platform to study the brain tissue of people with the mental illness.
Skoll Foundation
$11.25 million to the five winners of the 2023 Skoll Award for Social Innovation, which honors the achievements of social-entrepreneurship organizations worldwide.
Each winner has received $2.25 million in unrestricted and flexible support that may be used to conduct program evaluation, strengthen communications, and make grants to partnering organizations.
The recipients this year are AMAN, Reach Digital Health, Protect Democracy, Conexsus, and PolicyLink.
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
$6 million over three years to the American Cancer Society and Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute to upgrade cloud-based technology for a project that aims to accelerate cancer research and improve patient outcomes in Georgia.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
$5.3 million to DreamSpring to create and administer a fund that will offer low-cost loans to small businesses in historically marginalized communities within the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Doris Duke Foundation
Up to $5 million to One Nation/One Project for its efforts to use the arts to advance health and racial equity in the United States.
Google.org
$5 million through the Google.org Impact Challenge to the World Resources Institute.
The grant to the conservation group will back a project to deploy sensors, satellite imagery, and artificial intelligence to develop recommendations about where to expand cool-surface infrastructure, such as trees and reflective surfaces, in the areas most likely to experience extreme heat waves that put vulnerable people at risk.
Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey
$2.2 million to 14 nonprofit organizations that strengthen the well-being of residents of New Jersey.
The largest grant of $408,756 went to the Newark Community Street Team to support its Trauma Recovery Center, which supports victims of violent crime.
New York Women’s Foundation
$1.5 million to 21 organizations that advance economic justice, democracy, and solutions to mass incarceration in New York City and beyond.
Mellon Foundation
$1.3 million to New York University’s Latinx Project to enhance programs, research, and publications and back its Interdisciplinary Center for Arts and Culture.
John T. Vucurevich Foundation
$1 million to Rural America Initiatives for its capital campaign to build an early-childhood education and community center.
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