Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Microsoft
$20 million through its AI for Health program to support nonprofit groups, researchers, and other health organizations on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis and provide them with upgraded artificial intelligence and data-science tools. The technology giant is also giving $35 million worth of software products, credits for its Azure cloud-computing platform, and tech support for pandemic-response organizations.
Okta
$10 million over three years to the Okta for Good Nonprofit Technology Initiative, which will support improvements in technology at nonprofit groups.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$5 million to Vaxxas, a biotechnology company that is conducting initial human clinical studies using a microneedle patch as a new method for measles and rubella vaccination.
Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and Competition in Healthcare
$5 million over five years to the Patient Safety Movement Foundation to expand its work to eliminate preventable hospital deaths worldwide.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$2.5 million over three years to Oxfam America to develop an advocacy campaign designed to increase awareness of the value of unpaid care and domestic work.
(The Hewlett Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)
Ford Foundation
$2.3 million to the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation for general operating support.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$1 million to the University of Washington to share conservation services among the university’s libraries, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
New Grant Opportunities
The Provident Bank Foundation is accepting letters of intent to apply for grants from organizations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Grants between $5,000 and $25,000 are available to support organizations within the Foundation’s three priority areas of community enrichment, education, and health, youth, and families. In 2019, the foundation awarded $1.3 million to approximately 140 organizations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Letters of intent are due April 24.
Eat the Change Impact is accepting applications for grants to promote plant-based foods through partnerships with community-based nonprofit groups. The program will donate a total of $1 million over the next three years to community-based nonprofit groups at the intersection of nutrition and climate change. Applications are due May 15.
Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.
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