Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Apple
$200 million through its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, which was created in 2020 to strengthen organizations that advance education, economic growth, and criminal justice for Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
Apple initially pledged $100 million to the program following the police murder of George Floyd.
Read more about the tech giant’s giving for racial equity in the Chronicle.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$50 million over five years to continue the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute, a partnership between the Beijing Municipal Government and Tsinghua University to develop therapies for tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases that disproportionately affect vulnerable people in the world’s poorest countries.
Mellon Foundation
$25 million to nine cities through its Monuments Project, which makes grants for the design and installation of public art, memorials, and commemorative monuments, and supports related community programs and policy development.
The nine cities receiving grants in this round are Asheville, N.C.; Boston; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Los Angeles; Portland, Ore.; Providence, R.I.; and San Francisco. Each will work with local artists and organizations on their planned installations.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
$10 million to the Hospital for Special Surgery to expand its main campus in New York and help build its new Kellen Tower.
John A. Hartford Foundation
$7.7 million to six organizations to enhance nursing home care, create a national Age-Friendly Health Systems research hub, produce a documentary on aging in America, and improve the diagnosis of health conditions that affect older adults.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
$6 million through its Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program for grants to support research that seeks to understand the causes of political polarization and develop ways to strengthen democracy.
The program will award stipends of up to $200,000 each to 30 scholars, journalists, and authors this year.
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
$4 million to more than 40 organizations that advance unconventional artistic and community-based projects.
This year, eight of the grants were awarded through the foundation’s Black and Indigenous Land Rights and Agriculture Initiative, a three-year program to give grants to small-scale farmers, environmental activists, and coalitions to remediate losses of land worked and protected by historically marginalized communities.
National Trust for Historic Preservation
$3.8 million to protect and preserve 40 historic sites and organizations through its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
The grants are made possible with support from the Ford, Getty, Mellon, and JPB foundations, and other donors.
Ball Brothers Foundation
$3 million to 28 organizations that advance arts and culture, public society benefit, health, education, environment, and human services in Muncie, Ind.
The largest grant, $500,000, went to the YMCA of Muncie to help build a new facility on the campus of Muncie Community Schools.
Safeway Foundation
$3 million to the United Way Bay Area to test a multiyear, community-based program that addresses food insecurity in California’s Alameda County through monthly cash stipends and financial coaching for 100 families in the region’s most marginalized communities.
William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Bezos Family Foundation
$2.6 million to the four winners of their 2023 Institutional Challenge Grant competition, which awards grants to university-based institutes, schools, and research centers to back efforts to address social issues that affect young people.
The grantees this year are the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Virginia.
Salesforce
$2 million to nonprofit organizations to advance the equitable and ethical use of artificial intelligence to advance their programs in education, work-force development, and climate change.
GHR Foundation
$1.5 million over three years to the Sahan Journal to support this nonprofit news organization in Minnesota, which covers communities of color in the region. The grant is unrestricted.
First Tech Federal Credit Union
$1 million to 69 nonprofit organizations that work to advance equity in access to education, career opportunities, and professional networks in STEM fields, literacy, and financial education throughout California, Oregon, and Washington.
New Grant Opportunity
The Dan David Prize is now accepting nominations from early- and midcareer scholars of history. Each of the nine winners will receive $300,000 in recognition of their academic achievements to date and to support their future work. Nominations are due October 11.
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