Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Open Philanthropy
$150 million to five grantees through its Regranting Challenge.
The grants comprise $70 million to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for two programs in global health and one in global education; $45 million to Development Innovation Ventures, a program of the U.S. Agency for International Development that backs early-stage organizations and cost-effective projects in global health; $25 million to the Eleanor Crook Foundation for research and outreach to end malnutrition in poor countries; and $10 million to the Tara Climate Foundation for programs to mitigate climate change in parts of Asia.
Open Philanthropy is a philanthropic partnership that was established by Dustin Moskovitz, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook and Asana, and Cari Tuna, a former journalist at the Wall Street Journal.
Lilly Endowment
$80 million to improve 42 public parks in Indiana. A grant of $71.9 million went to the Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation to improve parks in all nine townships of Indiana’s Marion County.
The foundation also gave $41 million shared among 28 human-services organizations in Indianapolis, as well as $20 million to Partners for Sacred Places and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to continue the National Fund for Sacred Places through 2027. The fund makes grants to renovate and preserve historic churches across the United States.
The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
$31.1 million across 37 grants.
Neo Philanthropy received $6 million for two projects: $3 million for its Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic participation at the state level; and $3 million over two years for its State Infrastructure Fund, which focuses on nonpartisan voter engagement.
Mellon Foundation
$16 million to GBH to support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, the public media group’s collaboration with the Library of Congress to digitize and preserve public radio and television programs of historical importance from across the United States.
The foundation also gave $1 million to Cornell University to back Freedom on the Move, its history project about domestic slavery, and to support the contributions of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from other universities.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
$11 million to the YMCA of Greater Flint to build a new mixed-use facility that will house the organization and create residential rental units for residents of Flint, Mich.
The foundation also gave $5.5 million to the Foundation for the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation to support the project.
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
Rockefeller Foundation
$10.7 million to the U.N. World Food Programme to improve the availability of nutritious school meals for students in Benin, Ghana, Honduras, and India.
The grant will also support the School Meals Coalition, which aims to ensure that children in 73 countries can access healthy, daily meals in school by 2030.
Howley Foundation
Up to $7.5 million to Penn Medicine to establish the Aspire Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, which aims to increase diversity in health care throughout Philadelphia.
The program will provide learning opportunities and scholarships for local high-school students who are interested in careers in nursing.
Novo Nordisk
$6 million gift to Durham Technical Community College to support its life-sciences program and a new training center for life sciences on its main campus in Durham, N.C.
Moody Foundation
$5 million to the Highland Park Independent School District and the Highland Park Education Foundation, both in Texas, to continue the work of the Moody Innovation Institute.
The academic center for programs in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics was established with a grant of $5.8 million from the foundation in 2016.
National Trust for Historic Preservation
$4 million to 35 historic Black churches across the United States in the first round of grant making through its Preserving Black Churches program.
LCMC Health
$1.5 million to Xavier University of Louisiana to provide direct financial assistance to undergraduate students and medical-school residents in Louisiana and develop a diverse work force of physicians in the state.
New Grant Opportunity
The San Diego Foundation and the Dr. Seuss Foundation are accepting applications through their Early Childhood Initiative Equitable Opportunities grant program. A total of $1 million will be awarded this year to nonprofit groups in Southern California to increase access to early-childhood education and developmental care that is both high quality and low cost. Organizations can apply for grants up to $100,000; last year, the program awarded 21 grants. Applications are due February 10.
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