Here are notable new grant awards specifically for the Covid-19 outbreak, compiled by the Chronicle:
LEGO Foundation and LEGO Brand Group
$50 million to Education Cannot Wait and other partners to bring play-based learning to children and families around the world who are experiencing school closures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Micron Technology
$35 million pledge to help those affected by the virus. From this commitment, the Micron Foundation is creating a $10 million Covid-19 Relief Fund for worldwide economic-recovery programs. In addition, the technology company is providing in-kind support to small businesses and by donating facilities and supplies for emergency medical workers.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$25 million to the Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a global effort that was started earlier this month with seed grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and Mastercard. The effort seeks to speed the development of treatments for Covid-19.
Lowe’s
$25 million in grants and in-kind donations to benefit the coronavirus relief effort. Among the first grants announced is $1.5 million to the Covid-19 Response Fund, a joint project of the Foundation for the Carolinas and United Way of Central Carolinas to aid residents of Charlotte, N.C.
Truist
$25 million pledge to support basic needs, medical supplies, and relief of financial hardship due to Covid-19. The bank has already committed $1 million each to LiftFund and Natural Capital Investment Fund, which are both community-development financial institutions that support small businesses.
UJA-Federation of New York
$23 million in grants and loans to provide immediate financial aid to people in New York who are facing food insecurity and economic hardship. Of that total, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty has received $1.8 million in operating support and to help stock local food pantries.
Citi Foundation
$15 million to support coronavirus-relief efforts globally. Of the total, $5 million will be directed to the United Nations Foundation and World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund. Another $5 million will go to No Kid Hungry to support emergency food-distribution programs in the United States. The remaining $5 million will be disbursed to international efforts in countries that are severely affected by the pandemic.
Google.org
$15 million in cash grants to nonprofit groups that are helping small and midsize businesses. This commitment is part of the tech giant’s commitment of $200 million to create an investment fund that will support nongovernmental organizations, nonprofit financial institutions, and other banking groups to make grants and loans to small businesses. In addition, Google is giving $250 million in advertising credits to help the World Health Organization and more than 100 government agencies disseminate critical information on how to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Seattle Foundation
$14.3 million to the Covid-19 Response Fund to aid community-based organizations that are providing emergency assistance, including financial support, health care, and child care, to people working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Seattle. Among the foundation and corporate donors to the fund are the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, KeyBank, Liberty Mutual, the Microsoft Alumni Network, Nordstrom, the Northwest Area Foundation, NW Children’s Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, the Seattle Seahawks, the T-Mobile Foundation, Target, Tencent America, the Wells Fargo Foundation, and Weyerhaeuser.
TikTok
$13 million to two groups responding to the coronavirus-relief effort. Of the social-media company’s gift, $10 million is going to the United Nations Foundation and World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, and $3 million will help After-School All-Stars provide food for families who rely on free and reduced-price meals at schools that are closed.
Amgen and the Amgen Foundation
$12.5 million pledge to Direct Relief, International Medical Corps, and other organizations to support emergency-response efforts to address the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States and abroad.
AT&T
$10 million to create a Distance Learning and Family Connections Fund that will support students and their families who are experiencing school closures. The telecommunications company has given $1 million to Khan Academy for its online learning platform.
Biogen Foundation
$10 million to support the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The commitment includes a gift of medical equipment and supplies to Partners HealthCare, in Massachusetts.
Dogwood Health Trust
$10 million commitment in support of efforts to address the public-health crisis in western North Carolina. The pledge includes support of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina’s Covid-19 Pandemic Response fund.
Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation
$10 million pledge in grants and loans to small businesses, families, and nonprofit groups. Of the commitment, $3 million in grants will support Boston-area nonprofit groups that are focused on Covid-19 relief; the remaining $7 million will provide loans to small businesses and individuals facing financial hardship.
Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation
$10 million pledge, including support for the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund and $1 million to the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund’s A Common Thread campaign to give financial aid to workers in the American fashion industry who are facing a loss of income because of the pandemic. The brand has also promised to begin making 250,000 masks and 25,000 isolation gowns for medical workers.
Spotify
$10 million challenge grant to the Spotify Covid-19 Music Relief project to provide financial aid to musicians who are out of work because of the pandemic. The music-streaming service is offering a dollar-for-dollar match of all donations to its fund.
Anheuser-Busch
$5 million to the American Red Cross to identify sports arenas and stadiums that can be used as temporary blood-drive centers.
Citizens Bank
$5 million commitment to support communities and businesses dealing with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Charities in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island will receive grants for broad relief efforts. Grants and loans will also be available for small businesses.
Delta Dental Community Care Foundation
$5 million to organizations across its 15-state service area that are supporting coronavirus-response efforts for at-risk populations. Of the total, $3.5 million will go to federally qualified health centers, which are government-funded clinics that provide primary-care services for people most in need.
Lineage Logistics Holdings
$5 million pledge to support relief efforts, including $1 million to Feeding America’s Covid-19 Response Fund. The Michigan company is also creating a Share A Meal campaign that aims to provide 100 million meals to people in need due to the crisis.
Southern Company Gas
$4.9 million from several of its subsidiaries to support relief efforts in the South. The parent company has committed $2.5 million across its service area. The Alabama Power Foundation is providing $1 million to the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, United Way, and other community partners in that state. The Georgia Power Foundation pledged $1 million for efforts to relieve food insecurity and homelessness. The Mississippi Power Foundation also committed $350,000 in aid.
California Wellness Foundation
$4 million commitment to provide support for frontline health workers; financial relief for economically disadvantaged people, particularly immigrants and seniors; and protections for Asian Americans experiencing race-based harassment and assaults as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Of the pledge, $1 million will go to community clinics in California and the associations that advocate on their behalf.
Comerica Bank and Comerica Charitable Foundation
$4 million to community- development financial institutions to support nonprofit organizations and small businesses affected by the Covid-19 crisis. Community-service organizations that provide services to young people, seniors, and other vulnerable populations also will receive grants as part of this effort, with a particular focus on food insecurities and access to health care.
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
$4 million to its current grantees to provide emergency operational funding during the Covid-19 crisis. Of the commitment, $2.6 million has already been paid to 55 of its grantees.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Foundation
$3.3 million to food banks across the state. Grants include $750,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, in Nashville, and $750,000 to the Mid-South Food Bank, in Memphis.
Bacardi Limited
$3 million to #RaiseYourSpirits, a campaign to support bars and restaurants that are closed and experiencing financial hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. The tequila brand Patrón is also pledging $1 million to the campaign.
Bloomberg Philanthropies
$3 million to Johns Hopkins University for research into the potential therapeutic uses of plasma taken from people who have recovered from Covid-19. The State of Maryland is matching the donation with $1 million in public funding.
Dow
$3 million pledge to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, Direct Relief, and other groups for coronavirus-relief efforts both globally and in the communities where the chemical company does business.
William Penn Foundation
$3 million to create the PHL COVID-19 Fund. An additional $3 million in commitments has flowed to the fund from local individuals and businesses as well as the United Way, the Philadelphia Foundation, and the City of Philadelphia.
Union Bank
$3 million to local efforts in Los Angeles to help small businesses and human-services organizations, as well as $100,000 for community-based organizations in Canada and Latin America.
Avangrid Foundation
$2 million pledge to support national and local organizations that help vulnerable communities as they deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The energy company has committed $1 million to support emergency needs in New York, Maine, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
$2 million to local programs that provide housing, food assistance, and access to health care for those in need in Los Angeles. Among the grants given is $1 million to the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County to establish a telehealth program and $150,000 to Project Angel Food to buy shelf-stable emergency food packages.
Estée Lauder Companies
$2 million to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières to support its work to treat people sick with Covid-19 in poorer and highly affected countries. The cosmetics company is also dedicating its manufacturing facility in Melville, N.Y., to produce hand sanitizer for medical workers and other high-need groups.
Lysol
$2 million to the CDC Foundation for its crowdfunding campaign called All of Us: Combat Coronavirus.
New Balance Foundation
$2 million to organizations responding to the coronavirus pandemic, including Global Giving, No Kid Hungry, and a selection of local food banks throughout the United States.
S&P Global Foundation
$2 million to support the global response to Covid-19, specifically focusing on food scarcity and medical supplies. Initial grantees include the Unicef Covid-19 Fund, Direct Relief, Feeding America’s Covid-19 Response Fund, the Food Bank of New York City’s Covid-19 Readiness Response, and Give2Asia.
Gulf Coast Community Foundation and Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation
$1.5 million to create the Gulf Coast Covid-19 Response Joint Initiative, a new fund to make grants to key health and safety organizations in Florida that are contending with the public-health crisis.
Northwestern Mutual
$1.5 million to its nonprofit partners to address shortages in food and essential supplies in the areas where the financial company does business. The company has designated $1 million to Feeding America’s nationwide efforts and an additional $50,000 for its work in Milwaukee. It is also making grants to the Dominican Center, Metcalfe Park Community Bridges, Milwaukee Christian Center, Ronald McDonald House Charities Eastern Wisconsin, United Performing Arts Fund, and the United Way of Milwaukee, and New York City.
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
$1.5 million to respond to the Covid-19 relief effort in North Carolina, particularly in Forsyth County. Of the money, $500,000 went to the Covid-19 Response Fund for Forsyth County, which was established by the Winston-Salem Foundation, the City of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, United Way of Forsyth County, and Community Organizations Active in Disaster.
Pegula Sports & Entertainment
$1.2 million to nonprofit organizations in the Buffalo, N.Y., area, including a donation to the Western New York Covid-19 Community Response Fund.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$1 million to Citymeals on Wheels and an additional $250,000 to God’s Love We Deliver to bring free, nutritious meals to homebound elderly and health-compromised people in New York.
Coca-Cola Consolidated Charitable Giving Fund
$1 million to the Covid-19 Response Fund, a joint project of the Foundation for the Carolinas and United Way of Central Carolinas to aid residents of Charlotte, N.C.
Hellman Foundation
$1 million to the Give2SF Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund to support food security, access to housing, and financial security for workers and small businesses.
San Diego Gas & Electric
$1 million to the San Diego Foundation’s Covid-19 Community Response Fund. Other local corporate and foundation donors to the fund, which has raised $6.5 million so far, include a $500,000 matching grant from the Dr. Seuss Fund, plus donations from the Alliance Healthcare Foundation, AFL-CIO, the California Wellness Foundation, San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, the United Way of San Diego County, and the Qualcomm Foundation.
Twitter
$1 million split evenly between the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Women’s Media Foundation to support journalists who are reporting on the coronavirus pandemic.
WhatsApp
$1 million to the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network to provide fact-checking assistance for the #CoronaVirusFacts Alliance, which is working to slow the spread of misinformation about the virus in 45 countries.
Workers Lab
$1 million to create the Workers Fund: Covid-19 Rapid Response to give emergency financial assistance to gig workers and low-earning contractors. The Marguerite Casey Foundation seeded it with a $300,000 grant.
New Grant Opportunities
The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment has committed up to $5 million in rapid-response funding for nonprofit groups in Wisconsin that are responding to the coronavirus outbreak. Grants will support immediate actions statewide that focus on prevention, risk reduction, and strategies to minimize transmission of the virus. Applications are due March 30.
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation has dedicated at least $2 million in grants to charities in Louisiana that meet the basic needs of communities across the state as they respond to Covid-19. Community-crisis grants and disaster-response grants are worth up to $50,000 each for general operating support. Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis.
The Foellinger Foundation has allocated $1.4 million to make grants to charities that serve children and families, particularly those with greatest need, in Allen County, Ind. Innovative rapid grants that are worth up to $25,000 each will go to nonprofit organizations with creative ideas to address the effects of Covid-19 on the communities where they are located. Emergency-response rapid grants of up to $5,000 each are available to purchase cleaning or other supplies and provide resources to respond to community needs, work-force aid, and other operational support.
The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation has created a $3 million fund to make grants to community and nonprofit organizations in New England that are supporting Covid-19 relief efforts. As part of the program, $1 million in grants will be awarded to nonprofit groups in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire to help provide food, transportation assistance, and other support services in response to the coronavirus pandemic. A total of $1 million will be awarded to local nonprofit community-service organizations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Another $500,000 will be awarded to local nonprofit organizations that assist older adults in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Grants are worth up to $10,000 each.
The Mile High United Way’s Colorado Covid Relief Fund is accepting applications for grants for coronavirus prevention, impact, and recovery needs at community-based organizations in the state. The fund will award at least $7.5 million in grants, and eligible community-based organizations across Colorado can apply to receive a general operating grant of up to $25,000. The first deadline is April 4; applications will be reviewed every two weeks through May 30.
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation has created the Racism Is a Virus Too rapid-response grant fund to support organizations in New England that are addressing an uptick in hate crimes and bias against Asian American people due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nonprofit groups, community-based organizations, and schools in New England that work with communities of color toward racial equity in public education are eligible. Grants are worth up to $15,000 each. Priority will be given to organizations with budgets under $500,000.
The Provident Bank Foundation is accepting requests for emergency-response grants from nonprofit organizations working in communities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania that are affected by Covid-19. The foundation has committed $125,000 to ensure that charities in its service area can continue to operate. Organizations may request up to $5,000 each.
The Sempra Energy Foundation has established the Covid-19 Nonprofit Hardship Fund, which will award grants to small and midsize nonprofit organizations that serve people and families who are significantly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Grants will range in size from $500 to $50,000. Charities must work in health, education, welfare, or social services in the areas of the United States where Sempra Energy and its family of companies operate, including California, Louisiana, and Texas.
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