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Park Foundation Adds $25 Million to Ithaca College Scholarship Endowment (Grants Roundup)

By  M.J. Prest
August 28, 2019
The Park Scholar Program supports high-achieving students involved in communications and community service.
Ithaca College
The Park Scholar Program supports high-achieving students involved in communications and community service.

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Park Foundation

$25 million to Ithaca College to augment the endowment for its Park Scholar Program. This new grant follows $5 million the foundation gave to the scholarship program in 2014. Roy Park served as chairman of the college’s Board of Trustees from 1982 until his death in 1993; Dorothy Park died in 2016 at the age of 103.

Kendeda Fund

$24 million over four years to four recipients to help workers adopt democratic employee ownership plans at their companies across the United States. The grantees are the Evergreen Cooperative Corporation’s Fund for Employee Ownership, the ICA Group, Nexus Community Partners, and Project Equity.

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Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Park Foundation

$25 million to Ithaca College to augment the endowment for its Park Scholar Program. This new grant follows $5 million the foundation gave to the scholarship program in 2014. Roy Park served as chairman of the college’s Board of Trustees from 1982 until his death in 1993; Dorothy Park died in 2016 at the age of 103.

Kendeda Fund

$24 million over four years to four recipients to help workers adopt democratic employee ownership plans at their companies across the United States. The grantees are the Evergreen Cooperative Corporation’s Fund for Employee Ownership, the ICA Group, Nexus Community Partners, and Project Equity.

Burke Foundation

$7 million pledge to Marquette University to continue a fellowship program for graduate students and a full-tuition undergraduate scholarship for Wisconsin high-school seniors.

Google.org

$3 million to GiveDirectly to support large-scale cash grants directly to low-income families affected when a natural disaster hits the United States.

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

$2 million to METAdrasi — Action for Migration and Development for its work to meet the needs of refugees and migrants as they resettle into society. This organization is the winner of the foundation’s 2019 Humanitarian Prize.

Delta Air Lines

$1.5 million pledge to Polaris to continue operations of the National Human Trafficking Hotline. The airline has also donated 100 flights to transport survivors of human trafficking.

Zappos.com

$1.5 million pledge to the University of Louisville to repaint and refurbish seats in its football stadium.

Ball Corporation

$1.1 million to the University of Colorado at Boulder for its new Aerospace Engineering Sciences building that is opening this fall, and to support scholarships in engineering and business.

New Grant Opportunity

The Unitarian Universalist Funding Program is inviting applications for grants from its Fund for a Just Society. Grants of up to $15,000 each will be awarded to nonprofit groups in the United States and Canada that are engaged in community organizing, work with people who have been disenfranchised, and have active social-justice campaigns. Applications are due September 15.

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Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.

We welcome your thoughts and questions about this article. Please email the editors or submit a letter for publication.
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M.J. Prest
M.J. Prest has been writing about major gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004.
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