Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$922 million over five years to address global nutrition inequity, with a focus on ensuring adequate equitable access to nutritious food for women and children as a means of lowering maternal and infant mortality.
BlackRock Foundation
$100 million over five years to Breakthrough Energy for its Catalyst Program to develop climate technologies than can achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
The focus on this commitment will be developing technology for direct air capture, green hydrogen, long-duration energy storage, and sustainable aviation fuel.
Moody Foundation
$100 million to Rice University to build a new student center, which is expected to open in 2023, and create the Moody Fund for Student Opportunity, an endowment that will support student programs that will be housed in the new student center and elsewhere on campus.
Skoll Foundation
$100 million over five years to support the goals of the Global Covid-19 Summit, a collaboration among the U.S. government, the private sector, and civil-society leaders to end the Covid-19 crisis and prevent future pandemics from taking hold.
LEGO Foundation
$70 million to Unicef for its worldwide response to vaccinate children, families, teachers, and caregivers against Covid-19.
Open Society Foundations
$30.5 million pledge to fight against vaccine inequity within poor communities and nations and accelerate the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Bloomberg Philanthropies and Goldman Sachs
$25 million to create the Climate Innovation Fund and bolster the development of sustainable clean energy, with a focus on South and Southeast Asia.
The Asian Development Bank will manage the fund.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$15 million to 19 projects and organizations through the foundation’s new Humanities in Place program. The grants in this first round ranged from $150,000 to $3.5 million.
Podiatry Foundation
$10 million to Kent State University for its College of Podiatric Medicine. The college’s Foot and Ankle Clinic will be named for the foundation.
David and Lura Lovell Foundation
$7.6 million to 16 nonprofit organizations for programs in the areas of mental health, integrative health and wellness, youth access to the arts, and gender parity.
The foundation, which reported assets of $26.5 million in its most recent Form 990 filing, intends to spend down its endowment by 2024.
Change.org and the North Star Fund
$5.5 million to 45 Black-led organizations across the United States to empower communities of color.
The grant funding comes from Change.org’s $5.5 million Racial Justice Fund, which raised money last year from the petition website’s Justice for George Floyd and Justice for Breonna Taylor campaigns.
UnitedHealth Group
$4.5 million to expand access to health care, improve health outcomes, and support communities across Oklahoma.
The largest grants are $1.8 million over three years to the Health Alliance for the Uninsured to offer integrated services for people with diabetes, and $1.8 million over three years to the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa to provide comprehensive geriatric care for Native Americans.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
$3.6 million to 11 projects through its International Peace and Security program to boost projects on the issues of multilateralism and the connections between domestic and foreign policies in the United States.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation
$3.2 million to 27 nonprofit groups in Minnesota that build inclusive communities where all people have equal access to health resources. Of the total, nine grants will expand early-childhood care and education throughout the state.
Wikimedia Foundation
$1.4 million to six recipients in its first round of grant making from its Knowledge Equity Fund, which will make $4.5 million in grants to bolster knowledge and racial justice worldwide.
The first grantees are Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, the Borealis Philanthropy Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, Howard University’s School of Law and the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice, InternetLab, STEM en Route to Change Foundation, and the Media Foundation for West Africa.
Lumina Foundation
$1 million to Complete College America to help adult Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Native American students complete their degrees at predominantly or historically Black community colleges.
New Grant Opportunity
The Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation is accepting proposals from nonprofit organizations that increase job opportunities for young people with disabilities or young veterans with disabilities who are transitioning to civilian life. Proposals should be for programs that develop youth leadership and employment skills, break down barriers to employment for people with disabilities, and have the potential for national expansion. Up to 12 grants, ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 over one to three years, will be awarded. Proposals are due November 1.
Source: Philanthropy.Com
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