Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
NeighborWorks America
$79 million to 247 organizations in its network to increase access to safe, low-cost housing throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
The grants will back efforts to develop affordable rental and homeownership opportunities, offer financial-counseling services, bolster community-revitalization efforts, and make loans to entrepreneurs for commercial and economic development.
Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation
$78 million to Nemours Children’s Health to create a new center in Wilmington, Del., to study and augment clinical care for children’s cancer, sickle-cell disease, or other blood disorders.
Arnold Ventures
$34 million to Community Housing Capital to establish a fund that aims to increase access to low-cost housing for people of color in 12 southern states and Washington, D.C.
Genentech and the Genentech Foundation
$17 million to 31 grantees through its Health Equity and Diversity in STEM Innovation Fund to back multiyear projects that address systemic racism in health care and education in communities of color.
TD Bank Group
$10 million to 10 organizations through its 2022 TD Ready Challenge, which supports groups that aid people and communities that may be disproportionately affected by climate change or systemic efforts to develop alternative, low-carbon energy sources.
The recipients have each been awarded $1 million.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$5 million to Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation to share its research on solutions to social programs through its Digital Benefits Network and Digital Service Network.
Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
$4 million through its Aspire Awards to 12 cancer-research projects at academic institutions in Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Spain, and the United States.
Golden Fleece Foundation
$2.6 million over four years to the Netherland-America Foundation to back an exchange program for up to 50 Dutch and American students through its Dutch2USA and USA2Holland paid internship programs.
Adobe Foundation
$2 million to eight nonprofit groups that serve the community near the software company’s headquarters in San Jose, Calif.
The recipients are the San José Downtown Association, HomeFirst, the Kelsey, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, the Tech Interactive, Cinequest, Local Color SJ, and the San José Museum of Art.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
$1.8 million over three years to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana to bolster its hunger-relief efforts in 21 counties in the state.
Elevance Health Foundation
$1.6 million to eight nonprofit groups to bolster maternal and child health in four areas: mental health; access to care; high-touch support; and health-related social needs.
Decolonizing Wealth Project
$1.5 million through its Liberated Capital fund to 36 Indigenous-led organizations and tribes to back efforts that strengthen Native American communities and advance solutions to the climate crisis.
American Express
$1 million to the National Trust for Historic Preservation for a program that will make grants to 25 independent, historically significant restaurants.
Autodesk
$1 million to Howard University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The grant is unrestricted.
Boeing Company
$1 million to STEM NOLA to help build an innovation hub in New Orleans that will make education in science, technology, engineering, and math more accessible to students from marginalized communities in Louisiana.
New Grant Opportunity
The Citi Foundation is accepting applications through its Global Innovation Challenge for $25 million in grants to develop and promote solutions to improve food security. In its first round, the foundation will award two-year grants of $500,000 each to 50 organizations to create or expand projects to strengthen the physical and financial health of low-income families and communities, with priority going to the following four areas: access, affordability, availability, and resilience. Applications are due March 22.
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