Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$250 million over five years to create its Monuments Project, which will change the way U.S. history is told in public spaces by building new monuments and memorials, relocating some statues and commemorations, and adding context to existing monuments through installations, research, and education. Among the first grants is $4 million over three years to the Monument Lab in Philadelphia.
Ford Foundation and Other Grant Makers
$156 million commitment to the newly established America’s Cultural Treasures program. To date, $50 million from the Ford Foundation has been granted to 20 Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous arts groups; each grantee will receive between $1 million and $6 million, depending on the size of each organization’s operating budget, and up to $100,000 each for capacity building. A collection of other donors — Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Abrams Foundation, the Alice L. Walton Foundation, as well as Barbara and Amos Hostetter and Tom and Lisa Blumenthal — have committed an additional $31 million to this initial cohort.
The McKnight Foundation has pledged $10 million to Minnesota arts groups led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color. In addition, the Barr Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, the Houston Endowment, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the William Penn Foundation will make $25 million in grants to regional arts groups in their geographic areas.
(The Heinz Endowments are a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)
Amgen Foundation
$16.4 million commitment to the Amgen Biotech Experience, its program that gives science teachers the tools and resources to implement real-world biotechnology labs in their classrooms. The foundation has pledged more than $40 million to the program over the past 30 years.
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
$15 million to the University of California at Los Angeles’s School of Law to create the Graton Scholars program for students in the Native Nations Law and Policy Center. The scholarship will support Native American students and others interested in pursuing careers as tribal advocates.
Enterprise Community Partners and Wells Fargo
$12 million to six nonprofit groups to create new solutions to housing affordability. The grantees are Come Dream Come Build, Forterra NW, the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, the Gulf Coast Housing Partnership, Impact Justice, and the Preservation of Affordable Housing. Each will receive $2 million in grants as well as two years of technical assistance.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
$10.8 million across 38 grants to help alleviate the effects of the Covid-19 crisis and help families and young people get on a path toward equitable economic recovery. This new round of grants is part of the foundation’s pledge of $100 million for pandemic relief.
NoVo Foundation
$10 million to the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium toward its $100 million fundraising campaign to support the Black Girls Dream Fund and its programs to financially empower the goals of Black girls and women from the U.S. South.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$8 million divided into four grants to expand public space in Akron, Ohio. The grants include $4 million to design a trail around Summit Lake Park and $2 million to redesign and rebuild Lock 3 Park.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$5.9 million to SOS Children’s Villages to expand EduCare, its program that works to keep children in school and help families get themselves out of poverty, in Ethiopia.
Stupski Foundation
$5 million to community-based organizations that partner with the Oakland Unified School District and the San Francisco Unified School District to bolster advising in academic and financial aid for 12th-grade students at 13 high schools in the Bay Area.
Yidan Prize Foundation
$3.7 million to the Campaign for Female Education for its efforts to scale up its high-quality education programs for adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa. Camfed is the winner of the 2020 Yidan Prize for Education Development.
Ford Family Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, and Oregon Community Foundation
$3 million to the 2020 Community Rebuilding Fund, which has raised $5.2 million to date from individuals and grant makers to help residents of Oregon rebuild after wildfires have burned more than a million acres in the state. Each of the above foundations gave $1 million to the effort, and the Nike Foundation also contributed $750,000.
Cognizant U.S. Foundation
$1.5 million to the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition for its efforts to double the number of Black, Latinx, and Native American women who earn degrees in computing by 2025 and create a pipeline of diverse talent at technology companies.
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
$1.5 million to 13 cultural organizations to foster racial equity, expand access to the arts, and continue operations during the Covid-19 crisis. Among the grants is $500,000 over two years to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to provide public access to its digital archives of visual art, artifacts, and photographs.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
$1.5 million to museums in New York to build a more equitable workplace culture as they reopen after months of closure during the Covid-19 pandemic. The grantees include the Africa Center, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of the City of New York, the Queens Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
O’Donnell Foundation
$1.4 million to the Dallas Museum of Art to upgrade its technology infrastructure and systems to support digital programs for museum visitors, both online and on site.
Save the Music Foundation
$1.3 million across 42 grants to 20 school districts for the 2020-2021 school year, to purchase musical instruments, technology, and equipment. The grants include multiyear community partnerships in Dayton, Ohio; Miami; New Orleans; New York; Newark, N.J.; Northern California; and West Virginia.
New Profit and the Skoll Foundation
$1 million over two years to PushBlack, a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization for Black Americans. The grant is unrestricted.
New Grant Opportunity
The Primary Care Development Corporation and Community Health Care Association of New York State will make a total of $10 million in grants through their Covid-19 Community Health Care Resiliency Fund. Community-based health care providers in New York may apply for grants to restore, sustain, and enhance their operations to meet the needs of their communities during the pandemic and through recovery. Applications are due October 30.
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