Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Lilly Endowment
$85 million to support early literacy in Indiana as part of a collaboration with the Indiana Department of Education.
Of the total, $60 million will pay for instructional support for educators using the Science of Reading method, in partnership with the Hunt Institute and the University of Indianapolis’s Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning. The remaining $25 million will be shared among colleges and universities in Indiana that incorporate or enhance Science of Reading methods as part of their programs to prepare future elementary teachers.
The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and ELMA Foundation
$25 million to the Clinton Health Access Initiative to deliver affordable medical-oxygen equipment to government-run health agencies in Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Pokémon Company International
$25 million over five years to organizations that work to improve the lives of children and social equity. Priority will go to charities near the entertainment company’s two headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., and London.
Ballmer Group
$21 million over five years to City Year to expand educational equity and train civic leaders.
City Year will use $1 million of the total to strengthen its National Partnership for Student Success, which is helping students recover from learning gaps stemming from pandemic-related school closures.
UnitedHealthcare
$11 million to community-based organizations in 11 states through its Empowering Health program to improve access to health care and address the social determinants of health for uninsured people and underserved communities.
Bank of America
$10 million to Atrium Health to establish Meaningful Medicine, a program that aims to recruit new health care workers from underrepresented backgrounds in Charlotte, N.C., to strengthen health equity and economic mobility in the region.
The program is in partnership with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Mecklenburg County, Central Piedmont Community College, and the YMCA of Greater Charlotte.
Marguerite Casey Foundation
$6 million to four organizations that are working to advance social-justice scholarship and social movements.
Grants of $1.5 million each will go to the Portal Project of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago; the University of California at Los Angeles Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy; Haymarket Books; and the Highlander Research and Education Center.
William H. Davis, Dorothy M. Davis, and William C. Davis Foundation
$5.5 million to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center for research at the Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute.
New Jersey CEO Council
$5 million to establish the New Jersey Pay It Forward Program, which will help workers in the state obtain zero-interest, no-fee student loans to continue their postsecondary education and receive job training to expand the workforce in health care, technology, and clean energy.
Heinz Endowments and Ford Foundation
$3.2 million to arts groups with Black leaders in western Pennsylvania through Pittsburgh’s Cultural Treasures, which is jointly funded by the two foundations and housed at the Poise Foundation. The money will be administered by the Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise over the next three years.
Unrestricted grants of $10,000 each will be awarded to 30 grantees for organizational development in this round.
Auer Foundation
$3 million to Purdue University Fort Wayne to build a new facility for its School of Music.
Cigna Foundation
$3 million to community-based nonprofits through its Healthier Kids for Our Future program, which has pledged $25 million over five years to improve nutrition and mental health for school-age children across the United States.
Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts
$2 million to Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, the Hektoen Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of State Health Policy for programs that address the opioid and overdose crisis at the national, state, and community levels.
Duke Endowment
$1.2 million over three years to the Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina to help hospitals and community organizations more effectively address complex health and social issues, as well as reduce the economic, racial, and geographic barriers to accessing health care statewide.
Dollar General
$1 million to Feeding America to increase access to nutritious food through its network of community food banks.
Health Foundation of South Florida
$1 million to Miami Dade College and Broward College to expand enrollment and provide scholarships and other support services for undergraduate students, particularly those who are Black or Hispanic, in nursing and health sciences.
Miami Dade College also received a matching grant of $500,000 from the Mitchell Wolfson Family Foundation to back the effort.
Mailchimp
$1 million to Clayton State University to continue its Launchpad Academy over the next three years. The program, which is a partnership between the university’s College of Information and mathematical-sciences department, offers students training in the technical, social, and business expectations of working at technology companies.
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