Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Purdue Pharma
$102.5 million to Oklahoma State University at Tulsa to establish a new institute that will conduct research on addiction and pain and provide education and treatment for people addicted to opioids. The grant comes as part of a legal settlement with Oklahoma over the company’s marketing of its drug OxyContin. The Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, has also agreed to pay $75 million over five years to support the new addiction center.
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Lilly Endowment
$30.7 million over six years to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund to create the Hispanic Career Pathways Initiative, which will provide career counseling to Hispanic college students nationwide.
John Pritzker Family Fund
$25 million to the India Basin Park Restoration Project. It will carve out a new public park in San Francisco by renovating a vacant industrial lot and uniting it with the nearby India Basin Open Space and India Basin Shoreline Park.
Triumph Gulf Coast
$8 million to Florida State University for environmental efforts to restore Apalachicola Bay and help the region’s oyster industry recover. Triumph Gulf Coast is a nonprofit organization created to administer $1.5 billion in financial settlements awarded to Florida for economic damages that resulted from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
$6 million to the University of Pennsylvania for new courses based on the ancient Greek ideal of “paideia” that will teach undergraduate students the importance of wellness, service, and citizenship in addition to traditional academic education.
UPS
$5 million to the University of Louisville to establish new programs for student athletes.
Givaudan
$3.5 million to the University of California at Riverside to support its Citrus Variety Collection, a program to grow and protect more than 1,000 types of citrus trees.
John A. Hartford Foundation
$3 million to the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging to foster partnerships between social services and health organizations that serve older adults.
Walton Family Foundation
$2 million to Endeavor Northwest Arkansas to create a new office that aims to aid growth and economic development for local start-up companies that are best poised for rapid expansion and scale in the region.
Western Union Foundation
$2 million over three years to the Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative for its Youth Peacemaker Network, which runs a community learning center and programs that teach life skills, conflict resolution, and vocational training to more than 10,000 refugees at a settlement in Kiryandongo, Uganda.
Judd Hill Foundation
$1 million to Arkansas State University to endow undergraduate and graduate research in the College of Agriculture and bolster the study of essential crops grown in the upper Mississippi Delta region.
Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator
$1 million to IN2 Channel Partners to support 13 projects that bridge existing gaps in the development and commercialization of clean energy and agriculture technology.
New Grant Opportunity
The J.M. Kaplan Fund is accepting nominations for the J.M.K. Innovation Prize, which recognizes nonprofit organizations and mission-driven companies that are doing innovative work in the foundation’s three program areas: the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice. Up to 10 awards, each including a cash prize of $150,000 over three years plus $25,000 for project expenses, will be given this year. Applications are due April 30.
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