Here are notable new grant awards specifically for the Covid-19 outbreak, compiled by the Chronicle:
Albertsons Companies
$50 million pledge to hunger-relief groups in 34 states and the District of Columbia through its Nourishing Neighbors Community Relief campaign. This grocery chain operates supermarket stores nationwide that include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Acme, Shaw’s, Star-Market, Tom Thumb, and Randalls.
Alwaleed Philanthropies
$30 million for the global battle against Covid-19, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates Philanthropy Partners, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and other international organizations. It will focus on UN-Habitat’s efforts to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene in the Middle East and North Africa and slow the spread of the virus in South Asia.
Direct Relief
$25 million to create the Covid-19 Fund for Community Health, which will support and protect health care workers at safety-net community-health centers, pharmacies, and clinics in the United States. The fund includes a $10 million donation from 3M.
Bloomberg Philanthropies
$20.5 million for pandemic-response efforts. Of the total, $10.5 million will build a contact-tracing program that will improve ways to identify and control the infection rate of Covid-19 in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University will build an online curriculum and training program for contact tracers involved in this effort, and Resolve to Save Lives, a program at Vital Strategies, will provide operational and technical support to staff members in the New York State Health Department.
Another $10 million grant will support the International Rescue Committee’s efforts to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on vulnerable people worldwide.
United Health Foundation and UnitedHealth Group
$15 million in additional coronavirus-relief giving. A grant of $5 million from UnitedHealth Group will support a federally sponsored program at the Mayo Clinic to study promising plasma treatments for Covid-19 patients in the United States. Another $5 million will support a partnership with the AARP Foundation to address social isolation and food insecurity among older Americans during the Covid-19 crisis. The United Health Foundation is also making grants of $2 million to the CDC Foundation, $2 million to Direct Relief, and $1 million to the American Nurses Foundation. The donations augment the United Health Foundation’s previously announced $50 million commitment for pandemic relief.
UPS Foundation
$15 million for nonprofit organizations helping communities most affected by the pandemic, with a focus on the United States. The first round of funding directed $1 million toward urgent needs in the United States, including health care supplies, food insecurity, education, and financial assistance.
Kroger Co. Zero Hunger/Zero Waste Foundation
$10 million to create the Emergency Covid-19 Response Fund, which will make grants to local, state, and national organizations for their pandemic relief efforts.
UJA-Federation of New York
$9 million in new Covid-19 relief grants to support families, frontline workers, and Jewish people in need in the New York region. The grants included $6 million to support Jewish overnight and day camps that are facing closure this summer because of the pandemic.
Kansas Health Foundation
$5.3 million to support Covid-19 efforts that increase access to health care, food, and other pandemic-response efforts in the state. The grants include $1 million in total to the Kansas Food Bank, Harvesters Community Food Network, and Second Harvest Community Food Bank.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$4.7 million to hospitals in Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming to purchase mechanical CPR devices that may be used to treat patients in cardiac arrest while protecting health care workers from exposure to the coronavirus and other infectious diseases. The foundation also gave $200,000 to the American Heart Association to improve training on the use of ventilators on Covid-19 patients.
Anthem Blue Cross
$4 million for its coronavirus response, including $100,000 each to Feeding America and the United Way’s Covid-19 Response Fund to help low-income residents in California.
Marguerite Casey Foundation
$3.5 million to help low-income families suffering from the pandemic’s fallout. The grantees include $600,000 Color of Change and Mijente for a project to release prisoners and immigrant detainees, $300,000 to the Antiracist Research and Policy Center for the Covid Racial Tracking Project, and $300,000 to the Workers Lab for a national emergency direct cash grant program.
Caring for Colorado Foundation
$3 million for general operating support at health care groups, family-resource centers, groups that provide emergency shelter and food, and Covid-19 relief funds at other grant makers in Colorado.
Schultz Family Foundation
$3 million for #ThePlateFund, a project in partnership with #allinseattle, Seattle Foundation, and UpTogether to give direct cash payments to cooks, wait staff, bartenders, and other restaurant employees who are out of work because of the pandemic. The fund has raised $7 million to date and has paid $5.3 million directly to affected workers.
Edward Jones
$2.7 million commitment to support national and community organizations near the financial firm’s offices. The pledge includes donations to the American Red Cross; United Way affiliates in St. Louis; Tempe, Ariz.; and Mississauga, Canada; and five local hospital systems.
Qurate Retail Group
$2.5 million for an Emergency Assistance Fund that will support nonprofit groups including Meals on Wheels, No Kid Hungry, and Nest in the United States, as well as the National Emergencies Trust in the United Kingdom; the German Center for Infection Research; research universities in Italy; and charitable organizations in Japan. The company owns the television shopping channels QVC and HSN, as well as the retailers Zulily, Ballard Designs, Frontgate, Garnet Hill, Grandin Road, and Ryllace.
Barr Foundation
$2 million in a second round of Covid-19 grants to 23 organizations that serve immigrant communities in Massachusetts.
Batchelor and Hearst Foundations
$2 million to the Jackson Health Foundation to support frontline health care workers who are treating patients sick with Covid-19 in the Jackson Health System, in Miami. Each foundation gave $1 million.
Richard O. Jacobson Foundation
$2 million to Iowa Health Care for diagnosing, treating, and preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus, and to aid frontline health care workers in the state by providing emergency child care, housing, meals, and personal protective equipment.
Broadridge Financial Solutions
$1.5 million for community relief efforts, including $1 million to support charities and schools in 12 areas where it does business in the United States, Canada, India, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Some of the first grants went to hunger-relief programs at Pronto, which works with people living in Long Island, N.Y., and the Community Food Bank of New Jersey.
Siemens Foundation
$1.5 million to community-health centers in 12 cities that are responding to the Covid-19 crisis in the United States.
Addison Hines Trust
$1.2 million to Elwyn for its Covid-19 Emergency Fund. Addison Hines was a real-estate investor from Pennsylvania who died in 2003.
Meadows Foundation
$1.2 million in emergency grants to organizations in Texas, including $250,000 to Feeding Texas, $200,000 to the Texas Association of Community Health Centers, and $200,000 to the North Texas Food Bank, in Plano.
Advanced Micro Devices
$1 million to a group of charities responding to the pandemic, including the Chinese Red Cross Foundation, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the Austin Community Foundation.
Duke Energy Foundation
$1 million to assist Florida communities during the Covid-19 crisis, including $450,000 in emergency grants to 50 organizations that will address immediate social-service and hunger-relief needs stemming from the pandemic.
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
$1 million for Covid-19 relief, including $400,000 in rapid-response grants for operating support at 56 charities in New Jersey, as well as $300,000 to the Community Foundation of New Jersey for the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund, $100,000 to the United Way of Greater Newark for its COVID-19 Community Response Fund, and $100,000 to the Community Foundation of South Jersey for the South Jersey Response Fund.
KIND Foundation
$1 million to Project N95 for the Frontline Impact Project, through which health care institutions and other frontline-response organizations can request supplies and resources to help meet their greatest needs during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation
$1 million to create the Louis Armstrong Emergency Fund for Jazz Musicians, which will award one-time grants of $1,000 to individual freelance jazz musicians who live or work in New York.
Sam’s Club
$1 million to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation for the LISC Rapid Relief and Resiliency Fund and other efforts to provide emergency assistance to small-business owners during the pandemic.
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