Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
O. Wayne Rollins Foundation
$100 million to Emory University to endow two funds in faculty excellence and student success at the Rollins School of Public Health.
Wayne Rollins and his brother co-founded Rollins Inc., a pest-control conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta. He died in 1991. The public-health school was named for the Rollins family in 1994; the foundation also gave $65 million to Emory in 2019 for a new building at the school.
Novartis US Foundation
$20 million over 10 years to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to offer scholarships worth up to $10,000 per year to 360 students at historically Black colleges and universities and predominantly Black institutions.
In addition, the pharmaceutical company’s pledge will back 90 faculty research grants worth $25,000 per year for faculty members at historically Black colleges and universities.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
$15 million to the Greek Ministry of Health, in partnership with the U.S.-based Child Mind Institute, to develop a new mental-health program that will serve children and teenagers in Greece over the next five years.
Eli Lilly and Company
$14.4 million commitment to Unicef to strengthen health systems and improve long-term outcomes for 10 million children and adolescents in Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, the Philippines, and Zimbabwe who have chronic, noncommunicable diseases.
Verizon
$10 million to Heart of America to enhance technology and install learning labs at schools in need throughout the United States.
Weil Family Foundation
$10 million to the University of Michigan to provide operating support for the Michigan Center for Integrative Critical Care Research, which will now be known as the Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation.
Max Harry Weil was a doctor who pioneered critical-care medicine. He died in 2011.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$3.9 million to the Kaiser Family Foundation to create a rural-health reporting desk at Kaiser Health News. It will hire a team of editors, journalists, and social-media strategists to cover health stories in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Carestar Foundation
$2.3 million over three years to Nuestra Comunidad, the National Indian Justice Center, and a coalition of the Loma Linda University Health Department of Emergency Medicine, Riverside County Emergency Management Systems Agency, and Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency to improve emergency and prehospital health care for California residents who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
HCA Healthcare Foundation
$1.4 million over three years to Communities Foundation of Texas for Educate Texas, its program that expands access for high-school students to job training and credentialing for careers in health care.
United Services Automobile Association
$1 million to GreenPath Financial Wellness for financial counseling and debt-management programs that are designed to help low-income people of color and military families reduce their household debt and improve their credit scores.
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation and Mount Sinai
$1 million to the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai for a research program that focuses on aging-related cancers and will support collaborations between the institute’s physician-scientists and researchers from other established cancer-research institutions around the world.
The two organizations are contributing equally to the program.
New Grant Opportunity
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, in partnership with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, will make grants through the Science Diversity Leadership program to recognize and further the leadership and scientific accomplishments of excellent biomedical researchers who advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific fields. Grants of $1.15 million over five years will go to early- to midcareer research faculty at U.S. universities, medical schools, and nonprofit research institutes who act as mentors, sponsors, and role models for underrepresented groups in biomedical science. Applications are due May 19.
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