Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
$100 million to the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health to make technological upgrades to the obstetric and neonatal facilities at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, in Palo Alto, Calif.
The grant will expand the size of its labor and delivery ward and create a dedicated hospital unit for high-risk mothers who require hospitalization for days, weeks, or months before they deliver.
Schultz Family Foundation
$100 million to the Entrepreneurs Equity Fund for its new effort to make low-cost loans and grants to small businesses to amplify job creation, wealth, and a more inclusive economy within historically marginalized communities.
Anthem Foundation
$30 million over three years to promote equity in mental health, with an emphasis on aiding people with substance-use disorders.
In the first round of giving, the foundation has awarded $13 million to 15 organizations for projects in youth prevention and early intervention, access to care, and quality of treatment.
Windgate Foundation
$15 million to the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts to create an endowment that will support its current programs and future needs.
American Nurses Foundation
$14 million over three years through its Reimagining Nursing Initiative to projects that will test technology and innovative ideas designed to improve health outcomes and help nurses better serve marginalized communities across the United States.
The foundation has received grants to support the program from the Kaiser Permanente National Community Benefit Fund at East Bay Community Foundation, AMN Healthcare, Omnicell, and the Salka Impact Fund.
Yosemite Conservancy
$14 million to Yosemite National Park for a variety of efforts, including the study of threats to giant sequoias, mapping snow fields and ice patches in the park, plans to encourage visitors to use bicycles, and educational programs that cover the historical contributions of Chinese American laborers in developing Yosemite’s road system.
Ford Foundation
$10 million over five years to grassroots and local organizations that advance the rights of transgender communities.
Google and Google.org
$8.3 million commitment to help formerly incarcerated people receive job training for careers in technology.
The grants encompass $3 million from Google.org to Code for America to improve the process of clearing criminal records; $1.25 million from Google.org to the National Urban League and Justice Through Code to provide skills training to formerly incarcerated job seekers; and $4 million from Google toward the Grow with Google Fund for the Justice-Impacted Communities, which aims to help 100,000 formerly incarcerated people develop digital and career skills by 2025.
Blue Shield of California
$7 million over five years to the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Public Health to establish a fellowship program that will develop a pipeline of health professionals from underrepresented backgrounds.
Bayer
$5 million to the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to study chronic kidney disease and expand access to lifesaving treatments, especially for those living in rural areas that lack nephrology specialists.
Libra Group
$1.3 million to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to create a 10-year fellowship program across a range of academic disciplines for graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds.
OneAmerica
$1 million to the American College of Financial Services to enhance financial literacy among residents of Indianapolis, with a focus on closing the racial wealth gap.
United Way Bay Area
$1 million through its Housing Justice Initiative, which will make grants to at least 20 organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The program aims to increase access to stable and low-cost housing, advance equitable housing policy, close the racial wealth gap, and reduce homelessness in the region.
New Grant Opportunity
R&R, the Rest of Our Lives is accepting applications for grants to offer sabbaticals to leaders of nonprofit groups that serve Jews in the United States. This year, the R&R Sabbatical program will offer five organizations $60,000 each: $50,000 for their CEOs or executive directors to take at least three months of paid time off to travel or rest, and $10,000 to support interim leaders and staff during their leave. Applications are due June 29.
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