California Endowment Awards $85 Million to Bolster Community Organizing

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

$100 million over 10 years to Nationwide Children’s Hospital toward its capital campaign, which aims to raise $500 million to improve health outcomes for the children that the Columbus hospital serves.

$85 million to the Movement Innovation Collaborative to bolster community organizing among marginalized people in California.

$10 million in unrestricted grants to 811 arts and culture organizations in Washington state through the Community Accelerator Grant program.

$10 million to Texas A&M University to create the Welch-Hagler Fellows, which will help the university recruit chemistry researchers to the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study.

$6 million to 23 organizations in California’s San Diego County to support the mental and emotional well-being of youths and young adults in the region.

$5.7 million to organizations in Sarasota, Fla., that support early education and youth development, affordable housing, and mental-health services.

The largest grant of $1 million went to the Forty Carrots Family Center to expand its services in mental health and parenting education.

$5 million to the Salk Institute to develop new diagnostics and therapies to treat pancreatic cancer.

$4.5 million matching grant to the University of Texas at El Paso to establish UTEP Health, a new program to train additional healthcare professionals and address a shortage of nurses, physical therapists, and pharmacists in the Paso del Norte region.

$4 million to 10 grantees through its Inspire Change social-justice program to advance education, economic advancement, community-police relations, and criminal-justice reform.

$3 million to the University of Louisville to enhance its core research facilities, including labs with advanced equipment that help biomedical researchers develop new diagnostics, devices, and treatments.

$2.25 million to 10 researchers, community-based groups, and national organizations to advance research that aims to reduce the incidence and effects of community gun violence and firearm suicide.

$1.2 million to 26 grassroots organizations to strengthen democracy and promote voting rights at the community level.

$1 million commitment to Lambda Legal to endow a new position to defend LGBTQ+ rights in discrimination cases that invoke First Amendment protections for religious freedom.

$1 million to Kean University to endow Joe Sheridan Resiliency Scholarship for students at the university’s College of Business and Public Management.

The supermarket company that owns ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, and the Fresh Grocer endowed the scholarship in honor of Joe Sheridan, who recently retired as president. He graduated from Kean in 1980.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting applications for its Culture of Health Prize, which honors collaborative work to address structural racism and injustice in health. Up to 10 awards of $250,000 each will go to teams of multiple organizations that work together to advance health, opportunity, and equity in a place-based community. Applications are due June 3.

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