Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Mastercard Foundation
$1.3 billion over three years to work with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to vaccinate at least 50 million people in Africa against Covid-19. This donation is in addition to the $100 million that Mastercard has given through the Mastercard Impact Fund to respond to the global health crisis.
Read more about the effort in the Chronicle.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$125 million over three years to Creatives Rebuild New York, which will provide guaranteed income and full-time employment opportunities to up to 2,700 artists to reinvigorate arts and culture in New York State during its recovery from the pandemic.
Deloitte
$75 million commitment to its Making Accounting Diverse and Equitable program to diversify the pipeline of people who seek careers as certified public accountants. The commitment includes $30 million over six years through the Deloitte Foundation to offer full-tuition scholarships to students pursuing a fifth-year master’s program in accounting, and additional grants to partner with faculty and administrative staff at historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions.
Cummings Foundation
$25 million to 140 recipients to support education, health care, human services, and social-justice programs in the Boston area. The multiyear grants range in size from $100,000 to $500,000 each.
Chispa Foundation
$14 million to the Nichols School to endow a scholarship fund that will be awarded annually to pay tuition to the private school from fifth through 12th grade for two African American students who live in Buffalo, N.Y.
Solidaire Network
$14 million over two years to 102 organizations through its Black Liberation Pooled Fund, which is giving multiyear grants for general operating support at grassroots and community-organizing groups with Black leaders.
Read more in the Chronicle about the goals of the Black Liberation Pooled Fund.
Best Buy
$10 million commitment to create the Community Impact Hub, in partnership with the Annenberg Foundation and the Greater LA Education Foundation, to build up to 12 new Teen Tech Centers in the Los Angeles area by 2023. The centers will address underrepresentation, technology inequities, and educational and career opportunities for minority youths.
PNC Foundation
$6.2 million to Sesame Workshop to back its Coming Together program to address racial justice through early-childhood education.
Schuler Education Foundation
$5 million challenge grant to five liberal-arts colleges that successfully raise matching gifts from young alumni. Bates College, Carleton College, Middlebury College, Wellesley College, and Williams College must each raise $1 million to secure the match.
Overdeck Family Foundation
$4.65 million to organizations that provide after-school and summer programs to students in need. Camp Invention and Club Invention will share $1.65 million over three years to provide scholarships and family-engagement programs as it reaches 122,000 students in summer and after-school programs. A two-year grant of $2 million will support BellXcel’s delivery of programs in the summer and throughout the school year. EdReports has received $1 million over two years to expand its reviews of instructional materials for kindergarten through 12th grade.
Google.org
$2 million to OutRight Action International’s Covid-19 Global LGBTIQ Emergency Fund in honor of Pride Month. Google is also giving the group $1 million in free ad credit, and another $1 million in ad credit to the Transgender Law Center and the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund.
Chubb
$1.1 million through the Chubb Rule of Law Fund to four projects that promote equity and advance racial justice.
Black Future Co-op Fund
$1 million in unrestricted grants to 40 organizations with Black leaders across Washington State.
Centene Charitable Foundation
$1 million to the Healthy Americas Foundation to match corporate donations to the Hispanic Family Equity Fund, which aims to raise $100 million to support Hispanic families during the postpandemic recovery.
New Grant Opportunity
The Urban Institute’s WorkRise network is accepting letters of inquiry for grants to strengthen economic well-being for low-wage workers, particularly workers of color and others who have suffered financial losses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Up to $2.5 million in grants will support research projects on the challenges to economic mobility that economically vulnerable workers face; the development of solutions, policies, and practices to create pathways to economic security; or pilot programs within workplaces, worker-advocacy organizations, or service providers. Letters of inquiry are due June 27.
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