Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
$34.9 million to 75 nonprofit groups working in the areas of arts and culture, climate resilience, education, nonprofit-sector effectiveness, racial wealth equity, and watershed protection in New England.
Among the grants was $1 million to the Metropolitan Area Planning Council to bolster its Arts and Culture Department’s programs and advocacy on behalf of arts organizations in the region.
$10 million to California State University at San Marcos to develop a three-year accelerated bachelor’s degree in behavioral and mental health, which aims to address work-force needs in mental-health care.
$8 million to 11 nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia metropolitan area for efforts to improve maternal and infant health for low-income families, expand human and social services for LGBTQ+ youths, and develop a diverse pipeline of public-school teachers.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$6.7 million over five years to Partners in Food Solutions to help food companies in East and West Africa improve rice fortification in Nigeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Sierra Leone, and mitigate malnutrition there.
$6 million to the University of Pittsburgh to back multidisciplinary research on the therapeutic use of a ketogenic diet on patients with bipolar disorder.
$6 million to 10 community-based nonprofits to enhance training in the skilled trades.
The organizations each received grants worth between $260,000 and $1 million in this round.
Glenn W. Bailey Foundation
$4 million to the University of Florida to enhance internship programs for high schoolers, graduate-level fellowships, and community education and outreach through the Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation and Technology.
Haas Family Philanthropies and the Levi Strauss Foundation
$3.5 million to the University of California at Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy to create the Democracy Policy Initiative, a new research hub to make civic participation in California more inclusive and multiracial.
The Haas family’s foundations that have contributed to the total are the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, and the Peter E. Haas Jr. Fund.
Apollo Opportunity Foundation
$2 million over two years to Girls Who Invest to recruit and train women and nonbinary professionals in the investment-management industry.
Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation
$2 million to Berry College to expand access to health care for residents of northwest Georgia at the college’s new Health Sciences Building.
$1.5 million over three years to Storefront for Art and Architecture to hire more employees and expand its urban-art programs in New York.
The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation has committed to award $2.5 million through its NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants, which will give unrestricted cash awards to nonprofit groups that foster storytelling, youth education and empowerment, or community engagement. Organizations must have an annual operating budget of more than $100,000 but less than $1 million and be within the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Hartford, Los Angeles, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, or Washington, D.C. Applications are due April 19.
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