Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
KaJ Labs
$50 million commitment over 10 years to nonprofit groups working toward racial justice and equity in the United States. The technology company is also offering free resources, such as hosting and development services, to tech start-ups run by Black entrepreneurs.
Eli Lilly and Company and the Lilly Foundation
$25 million over five years, as well as 25,000 employee volunteer hours, to address racial justice and assist communities of color.
PepsiCo.
$20 million over five years to create opportunity and advance economic empowerment for Black Americans. The commitment includes $6.5 million in community-impact grants to address systemic issues and $1 million to replicate its Southern Dallas Thrives program in Chicago.
Clara Lionel Foundation
$11 million, in partnership with Jack Dorsey’s #StartSmall, to 12 organizations that are working to improve the criminal-justice system. The grantees include Black Lives Matter, the Movement for Black Lives, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The Clara Lionel Foundation was created by the singer Rihanna to raise money for social causes.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$10 million to six United States Regional Arts Organizations to help create the new United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund, which will support small to midsize arts organizations across the country, with priority going to organizations that are at greatest financial risk during the Covid-19 crisis.
MUFG Union Bank
$10 million commitment to establish a Community Recovery Program, which will focus on economic stability, increasing access to capital, entrepreneurship, job retention, and skills training for Black, Asian, and Latino communities.
Rockefeller Foundation
$10 million to create the Rockefeller Foundation Opportunity Collective, which will make grants over the next 10 years to promote more inclusive economic growth and prioritize Black and Latino small-business owners as the economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Target and the Target Foundation
$10 million to social-justice organizations, including the National Urban League and the African American Leadership Forum. The retailer plans to make additional grants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and across the country.
Daniels Fund
$5 million commitment for its Covid-19 response in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Quaker Oats Company
$5 million over five years to support racial-justice nonprofit groups and engagement in the Black community. The announcement came as the company promised to rename its pancake and syrup line to resolve complaints of racist imagery in the Aunt Jemima brand.
Republic Services Charitable Foundation
$3 million shared among Rebuilding Together, Habitat for Humanity International, and NeighborWorks America to help local small businesses across the United States recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Each charity is receiving $1 million.
Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge
$2.8 million to 28 grantees to give a platform to diverse voices and broaden discussion of poverty and economic mobility in the United States. The program is a collaboration of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Raikes Foundation, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, and the Schultz Family Foundation.
L.A. Arts Covid-19 Relief and Recovery Fund
$2.7 million to 400 artists and 80 arts organizations in its first round of grant making. This fund, a joint project of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the California Community Foundation, plans to make $10 million in emergency grants to support the region’s culturally diverse arts communities and audiences.
St. Louis Regional Racial Healing Fund
$2 million to make grants to challenge the conditions that reinforce systemic racism. The effort was started by the Deaconess Foundation, Forward Through Ferguson, and the Missouri Foundation for Health. It has also received a matching grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
T. Rowe Price and the T. Rowe Price Foundation
$2 million commitment to organizations that are working to correct racial injustice.
UPS Foundation
$2 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to deliver routine vaccinations to children in the world’s poorest countries and support its work to eliminate childhood deaths from preventable diseases.
Bob Woodruff Foundation
$1.9 million to 13 organizations for programs that serve veterans, service members, and their families by improving veteran and caregiver health and wellness, helping veteran and military families move into civilian communities, and addressing the specific needs of veterans caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.
James Graham Brown Foundation
$1.5 million to the University of Louisville’s Co-Immunity Project to expand coronavirus testing in Kentucky and create a public “virus radar” for tracing its spread.
Kroger
$1.5 million pledge to the University of Louisville to reduce hunger and waste in the local community.
John A. Hartford Foundation
$1.2 million to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to evaluate the quality of care in nursing homes, with special emphasis on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in facilities that serve elderly adults.
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
$1 million to Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications for a new program to bolster local news in Chicago.
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