Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
California Endowment
$100 million over 10 years to Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations across California to advance health equity and racial justice, in response to recent violent attacks on people of Asian descent.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
$100 million to Community Solutions through its 100&Change grant competition. The organization is using a data-driven approach to address homelessness and improve public health in 75 communities in the United States over the next five years.
Read more about the other finalists in the competition.
Rockefeller Foundation
$20 million to create its Equity-First Vaccination Initiative, which has selected five pilot cities where it will concentrate its efforts to improve the Covid-19 vaccination rate in communities of color. The five cities are Baltimore; Chicago; Houston; Newark, N.J.; and Oakland, Calif.
Intel
$20 million through its Intel RISE Technology Initiative to support projects in health care, education, and the economy during the global recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on social equity and human rights, accessibility, and climate action.
This new pledge follows a previous commitment of $50 million last year.
Walter Foundation
$15.5 million to the Rotary Foundation to establish a Rotary Peace Center in the Middle East or North Africa. The service organization plans to send its first “peace fellows” abroad in 2026.
Collective Future Fund
$11 million over three years to 25 organizations that are working to end gender-based violence. All the recipient organizations are led by women who are Black, Indigenous, or people of color, queer, transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, or immigrants.
PayPal, Uber, and Walgreens
$11 million to create the Vaccine Access Fund, in partnership with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, to provide free transportation to Covid-19 vaccination sites that serve U.S. communities in need.
California Funders for Boys and Men of Color
$10 million to 13 organizations led by people of color to reduce the incarceration of young people, reform the youth-justice system, and create a new youth-development department in Los Angeles County. The recipients are the Arts for Healing and Justice Network; the Anti-Recidivism Coalition; Brotherhood Crusade; the Brothers, Sons, Selves Coalition; the Children’s Defense Fund-California; the Community Coalition; InnerCity Struggle; Khmer Girls in Action; the LA Youth Uprising Coalition; LeadersUp; the Social Justice Learning Institute; the Urban Peace Institute; and the Youth Justice Coalition.
California Funders for Boys and Men of Color is administered by the Liberty Hill Foundation and supported by a group of philanthropic partners that includes the California Endowment, the California Wellness Foundation, and the Weingart Foundation.
New York Community Trust
$9.9 million to 53 nonprofit groups in the city primarily to help more people get vaccinated against Covid-19, expand internet access in low-income neighborhoods, and encourage participation in this year’s local elections.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$2.2 million to nine organizations to advance equitable community development, outdoor recreational spaces, and technological innovation in Philadelphia neighborhoods.
Ray Charles Foundation
$2 million to Morehouse College to offer scholarships to students majoring in business.
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
$1 million over two years to eight organizations that help young people with disabilities complete their education and find jobs in the postpandemic economy.
Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation
$1 million challenge grant to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to generate donations for the Dean’s Catalytic Fund. The fund will give the medical school’s dean the opportunity to direct money toward emergency student scholarship support, early-stage research, and faculty recruitment and retention.
New Grant Opportunity
Amazon Web Services will award $12 million to health organizations this year through its Diagnostic Development Initiative to contain the spread of Covid-19 and other infectious diseases. The focus of the 2021 program is on projects that use early detection to identify disease outbreaks at the individual and community level, advance understanding of a disease’s trajectory, and employ public-health genomics to bolster viral genome sequencing worldwide. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through the end of the year, with priority going to applications received before July 31.
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