Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$310 million over three years to the CGIAR, formerly known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, to help 300 million small-scale farmers prepare for climate changes that will affect their crops.
$40 million to the Purdue Research Foundation to create the Engineering and Polytechnic Gateway Complex at Purdue University.
Four Alaskan Grant Makers
$40 million to Anchored Home to develop new solutions to homelessness in the state. The grants include $15 million over five years from Providence Health & Services Alaska, $10 million over three years from the Rasmuson Foundation, $10 million over five years from Weidner Apartment Homes, and $5 million over three years from Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska.
$15 million to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in recognition of its 80th anniversary.
$12.5 million to Education Cannot Wait to deliver early-childhood education to refugee and displaced children.
$8.4 million to 16 grantees that are working to increase access to behavioral-health care throughout Colorado.
Blackstone Charitable Foundation
$5 million to the University of California system to expand a network of business mentors that counsel student entrepreneurs at nearly all the universities in the system.
$3.5 million to Vassar College and Smith College for a program to inspire liberal-arts students to pursue careers in education and expand programs that work in urban public schools. Vassar received $2.25 million, and Smith has been awarded $1.25 million in honor of Dan Mindich, a high-school teacher who died in 2014 during a swimming competition in Hawaii at age 48.
$1.5 million to Comp-U-Dopt for a five-year program to buy computers for low-income youths in Galveston, Tex.
$1 million to Greater Worcester Community Foundation to bolster arts, culture, and creativity in central Massachusetts.
The Gerber Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry regarding grants worth up to $350,000 each over three years for research on pediatric health, pediatric nutrition, and the effects of environmental hazards on children under the age of 3. Concept papers are due November 15.
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M.J. Prest has been writing about major gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Email M.J.
