Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
St. David’s Foundation
$51 million in grants to advance health equity in Central Texas.
To support its top two priorities, the $1.3 billion foundation allocated $13 million in grants to support aging adults, as well as $18 million to safety-net clinics that deliver quality health care to uninsured and underinsured people.
Continental Resources
$25 million to Oklahoma State University to create the Hamm Institute for American Energy. It is named for Harold Hamm, who is the founder and chairman of Continental Resources, a petroleum and natural-gas company in Oklahoma City.
Tellurian
$25 million over five years to the National Forest Foundation to expand its conservation work and improve forests’ ability to sequester atmospheric carbon.
Tellurian is a natural gas company in Houston.
Ford Foundation
$20.3 million to JustFilms to support independent documentary filmmakers in the United States and developing countries. Of the total, 73 percent of the grants are going to filmmakers who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color.
Morgan Stanley
$20 million over five years to the Institute for Inclusion to establish the Equity in Education and Career Consortium.
This new program aims to help high-school and college students succeed in their careers and address systemic inequities in education and employment for young adults from low- to moderate-income backgrounds and marginalized communities.
NFL
$20 million to social-justice organizations as part of the football league’s commitment to grant $250 million by 2027.
The new grantees include Year Up, Wall Street Bound, Free Minds Book Club, and Get Schooled.
Mastercard Foundation
$17 million over three years to CorpsAfrica to expand its operations to eight African countries and create opportunities for young Africans to access job training in public health, education, and economic development in local communities.
Jack C. Massey Foundation
$15 million to Belmont University toward a new building for research on data, discovery, and design.
The new facility will be named for Jack Massey, a venture capitalist who purchased Kentucky Fried Chicken from Col. Harland Sanders in 1964 and co-founded the Hospital Corporation of America. Massey, who did not attend the university but was a longtime friend of former chancellor Herbert Gabhart, died in 1990.
Rasmuson Foundation
$15 million across 29 grants. Among the largest commitments was $3 million to continue and expand the foundation’s Camps Initiative, which partners with the Alaska Community Foundation, the State of Alaska, and the Municipality of Anchorage to expand access to educational, recreational, faith-based, and cultural camps for Alaskan youths.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$10.1 million to eight recipients to study inclusive education and evaluate teaching practices that foster students’ well-being and belonging.
The grantees are the Assessment for Learning Project, a project by the Tides Center; the Black Teacher Collaborative; the Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color; Flourish Agenda; the Nez Perce Tribal Education Department; Pennsylvania State University and the Tucson Unified School District; Village of Wisdom; and YR Media.
Trinity Church Wall Street
$8.3 million to nonprofit groups in New York that serve low-income communities.
A grant of $2 million will go to the City University of New York’s Borough of Manhattan Community College Foundation to provide housing for homeless students enrolled at the community college.
SiriusXM Radio
$5 million to the Apollo, a historic theater in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, to support its programs and increase audience access to Black artists and voices from the African diaspora.
PVH Corporation, Capri Holdings Limited, and Tapestry
$3 million pledge to the Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York to establish the Social Justice Center at FIT. It will offer education, mentorship opportunities, job training, and professional career development in the fashion industry for students who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
Each of the three fashion companies has committed $1 million to the new center.
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
$2.5 million over three years to Friends of the Children to expand the charity’s reach in areas that the Minnesota foundation serves and within tribal communities.
John A. Hartford Foundation
$2.1 million over three years to the University of California at Los Angeles for a national expansion of its Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program, which aims to improve care for people living with dementia and their family caregivers.
World Education Services
$1.8 million in grants through its Mariam Assefa Fund to improve the economic mobility of immigrants and refugees living in the United States and Canada.
Google.org
$1.1 million to DataKind for seven projects through its DataCorps program to use data science and artificial intelligence to advance economic empowerment in financial inclusion, safe and affordable housing, postsecondary education, and poverty-alleviation efforts.
Sony Corporation of America
$1 million to PolicyLink for its Winning on Equity campaign to advance racial and economic justice for 100 million people who live in poverty in the United States.
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