Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Rockefeller Foundation
$1 billion over three years to build an inclusive, green economic and public-health recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on helping the world’s poorest billion people who have been hit the hardest. The $4.4 billion foundation says it is shifting its focus and making the pandemic recovery its chief priority. It will concentrate primarily on bolstering renewable energy resources in developing countries and strengthening public-health systems by expanding access to coronavirus testing and vaccines, science-backed tools, and data to combat the pandemic’s reach and limit future outbreaks.
JPMorgan Chase
$35 million to organizations in five U.S. cities for career-readiness programs. The recipients are EdVestors, in Boston; Ohio Excels, in Columbus; Dallas Commit; EmployIndy, in Indianapolis; and the Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation. Each is receiving $7 million.
Centene Charitable Foundation
$22.1 million to the Mayo Clinic for research on pancreatic cancer that uses artificial intelligence and early-detection diagnostic methods.
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
$20 million to the University of Texas at Austin to establish the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research in the Moody College of Communication. The center will work with children, teenagers, and adults who stutter through new treatments that focus on core communication competencies, such as eye contact, tone of voice, and gestures to emphasize meaning, rather than traditional fluency therapy.
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
$20 million in additional grants for Covid-19 pandemic relief and efforts to combat systemic racism. Among the grants are $2.5 million to the Movement for Black Lives for general operating support and $2.3 million to the Schott Foundation for Public Education for its work focused on racial equity.
Walther Cancer Foundation
$11 million to Indiana University and Purdue University to advance their collaborative cancer research using bioinformatics, which involves managing and analyzing large amounts of scientific research data.
Cummings Foundation
$10 million to 30 nonprofit groups in the Boston metropolitan area. The grants range from $250,000 to $500,000 and will be paid out over 10 years.
Walder Foundation
$7.4 million to the Chicago Coronavirus Assessment Network, a collaboration between state, local, and county health officials and scientists for projects that aim to generate data and insights on the spread of Covid-19 in Illinois.
Humana
$5 million to Volunteers of America to expand its comprehensive substance-abuse programs and services for mothers and their children.
LEGO Foundation
$3.9 million to America Forward to support its Advancing Whole Learner Education program, which aims to develop policy, create public-engagement campaigns, and expand federal support for holistic approaches to education.
Arnold Ventures
$2.7 million to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, University of California at Davis, and Michigan State University in partnership with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to conduct studies of populations at high risk for committing gun violence or becoming victims of it. The grants were made through the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$2 million to the Federation of State Humanities Councils to support a new national campaign to provide nonpartisan, free programming to engage the public on the importance of civic and electoral participation. Programs will run through the spring.
The Washington Home
$2 million to Capital Caring Health to create a new in-patient hospice-care unit at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. This new foundation, which was created with assets from the closure of the Washington Home and Community Hospices, also has given $1 million to Iona Senior Services to build a .senior center in Ward 8, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C.
PepsiCo
$1.5 million through the Chicago Community Trust for programs in Chicago, including $1 million to the Hatchery Chicago to provide small grants and other wraparound services to help more than 400 female entrepreneurs and job seekers on the South and West Sides of the city.
Lilly Endowment
$1.1 million to Girls Inc. for its National Resource Center, which will create virtual learning programs to meet the needs of girls across the United States and Canada, with special emphasis on girls who live in Indiana. (The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.)
Lowe’s
$1 million to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation for its $135 million capital campaign.
New Grant Opportunity
The RRF Foundation for Aging is accepting proposals for projects working to improve quality of life for older Americans through direct service, advocacy, education, and training programs for professionals working with elders. Its program areas are caregiving, economic security in later life, housing, and social and intergenerational connectedness. Proposals for direct-service projects are being considered from organizations based in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Florida. Projects of national relevance are considered from organizations across the United States. Letters of intent are due December 1, and the deadline for full proposals is February 1.
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