Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$315 million pledge to the CGIAR global agriculture research partnership to help 500 million smallholder farmers and livestock keepers around the world make sustainable changes to the way they grow food and feed their communities in response to climate change.
The pledge was announced at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where scores of grant makers made commitments totaling more than $4 billion for conservation. Read more coverage of the conference in the Chronicle.
Rockefeller Foundation
$150 million commitment to support the Pandemic Prevention Institute, an international collaboration of organizations that are collecting and analyzing data to detect disease outbreaks, create an early-warning system, and quickly contain contagious illnesses.
Salesforce
$100 million over the next 10 years to make grants to nonprofit groups that advance climate justice, plant trees, and restore ecosystems in developing countries. The software company will also donate technology through its Power of Us program and connect company volunteers with charitable organizations that focus on climate action.
Jewish Community Response and Impact Fund Aligned Grant Fund
$24 million to eight organizations with programs in Jewish education, engagement, service, diversity, safety, and empowerment. The recipients are Community Security Service, Custom and Craft, Gather Inc., Jimena, M2, Moishe House, Repair the World/Jewish Service Alliance, and UJA-Federation of New York.
The grant makers that contributed to the fund are the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation, the Jim Joseph Foundation, the Maimonides Fund, and the Paul E. Singer Foundation.
Nicor Gas
$20 million to establish Northern Illinois Community Initiatives, a new foundation to support economic development through real-estate development, work-force development, and entrepreneurship in marginalized communities throughout northern Illinois.
UScellular
$13 million commitment to its After School Access Project, a program that connects nonprofit groups with free, safe internet access to bolster their after-school programs for children and youths.
Healthy Communities Foundation
$6.2 million to 72 health-equity organizations in the South and West Sides of Chicago and suburbs of Illinois’s Cook County that serve the people who have been hardest hit during the pandemic. The grants are for general operating support.
San Francisco Foundation
$3.4 million over two years to boost Black leaders of community-based nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation
$3 million to 115 nonprofit organizations to build gardens in schools, improve nutrition education, and expand equitable access to healthy food.
HBCU Wrestling
$2.7 million to Morgan State University to restart its competitive collegiate wrestling program, which had been absent from the university’s athletics program for 24 years, primarily because it lacked financial support.
HBCU Wrestling is a philanthropic organization created by Mike Novogratz, a billionaire former hedge-fund manager, to re-establish wrestling programs at historically Black colleges and universities.
Union Beer Distributors
$2.4 million over three years to Henry Street Settlement to provide an array of services for youths and families who have been most vulnerable during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The organization will strengthen its services in education, mental health, homelessness prevention, work-force development, and recreational opportunities.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$1 million over two years to the Theatre Communications Group to expand its books program, increase the number of books published each year, and reprint classic books by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color whose work have fallen out of print. The grant will also support a series that highlights the works of Black playwrights.
Trinity Church Wall Street
$1 million to Episcopal Relief and Development to continue its international economic-resiliency efforts to help people recover financially from the Covid-19 pandemic.
New Grant Opportunity
The Schultz Family Foundation, Stand Together Foundation, and the Starbucks Foundation will make more than $1 million in grants through their Mobilizing America for Refugees Fund. Community-based organizations that are helping Afghan refugees and parolees resettle in the United States can apply for grants of up to $45,000 for general operating support. Applications are due November 15.
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