Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
California Black Freedom Fund
$100 million pledge to Black-led organizations throughout California that are working to end systemic racism in the state. The fund, which is housed at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, has so far received $32.4 million in support from a group of grant makers that includes the Akonadi Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, the California Endowment, the California Wellness Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund, JPMorgan Chase, the San Francisco Foundation, and more.
Read more in the Chronicle about pooled funds.
IKEA Foundation
$36.2 million to the International Rescue Committee to support Refugees in East Africa: Boosting Urban Innovations for Livelihoods Development, a program to help 20,000 refugees and other members of the communities where they live find meaningful jobs in Kenya and Uganda.
Rockefeller Foundation
$35 million to 24 organizations in Africa to create more equitable access to Covid-19 testing and vaccines, and also address the escalating food crisis and improve sources of renewable energy throughout the continent, focusing on Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The largest grant of $12 million is going to the Africa Public Health Foundation to support the Africa Centres for Disease Control.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
$18.4 million to 17 organizations in the Boston area for projects to improve housing affordability, jobs and financial security, and behavioral health. Of the total, $1 million over three years was awarded to Metro Housing to survey the use of rental vouchers in resolving economic inequality for working families and provide $700,000 in direct financial assistance to families in the study.
Bank of America
$13 million to 20 community-development financial institutions and nonprofit groups serving Native American communities that have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. Of the total, $10 million went to Native American Bank to provide low-cost loans for small businesses, affordable housing, schools, health care clinics, and other consumer-lending needs.
Merck
$10 million through its Safer Childbirth Cities program to nine organizations that are working to improve maternal-health outcomes and reduce racial inequities in prenatal care.
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
$7.5 million in grants to three community-development financial institutions to make low-cost loans to nonprofit groups that are providing direct services to address critical needs during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Getty Foundation
$5.4 million to 45 cultural, educational, and scientific institutions throughout Southern California for exhibition research grants in connection with Pacific Standard Time, a regional project on the history of art and science that is scheduled to open in 2024.
CVS Health Foundation
$5 million over five years to the United Negro College Fund to create the Health Care Careers Scholarship program, which will be awarded to Black and Latinx students who are pursuing a career in health care and studying pharmacy, nursing, business management, biology, biochemistry, finance, operations and supply chain, data analytics, information technology, or human resources.
National Football League
$4.3 million to 13 organizations that are working to address systemic racism. The grants come as part of a 10-year, $250 million pledge from the NFL to advance social justice.
Harris Philanthropies and Pew Charitable Trusts
$4 million to the Bridgespan Group to support the first group of participants in its Leading for Impact program for nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and Camden, N.J. A total of 50 nonprofit groups led by people of color will receive leadership training and support, and an additional 50 charities will participate in the Bridgespan Leadership Accelerator online program that includes workshops and coaching support. Harris Philanthropies and Pew Charitable Trusts each contributed $2 million to the program.
Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Henry Luce Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund
$3.1 million to the Institute of International Education to create the China-U.S. Scholars Program, which will give 48 Chinese and American professors and students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences the opportunity to conduct research, study, or teach abroad in the United States or China in the 2021-22 academic year.
George Family Foundation
$1 million to 40 organizations, primarily in the Minneapolis area, for general operating support and emergency funding to respond to urgent community needs that have arisen during the Covid-19 pandemic.
New Grant Opportunity
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is accepting letters of interest for the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, a new program that will make grants to support energy efficiency and clean-energy projects at art museums in the United States. Grants will be made in three categories: scoping grants, to help museums determine their climate and energy mitigation options for their facilities; technical assistance grants, to support the specification and financing of an energy-efficiency project; and implementation grants, to provide partial seed funding for projects in the final stages of design. A total of $5 million will be awarded. Letters of interest are due March 15.
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