Netflix Commits $100 Million to Support Artists of Color in TV and Film

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

$200 million over five years to help small businesses that are owned by Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs. The grants will comprise approximately 60 percent of a $350 million total commitment to foster an inclusive economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, with the rest distributed as low-cost loans and equity investments in small businesses.

$150 million to establish the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, which will expand on the foundation’s earlier work with newly elected mayors and other public servants in urban governance through the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School.

Bloomberg Philanthropies established the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in 2017 with an initial grant of $32 million.

$100 million over five years to create the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity, which will support organizations that help actors, producers, writers, and directors from underrepresented communities achieve success in the TV and film industries.

$53 million over five years in grants through its Free to Dream program, which will support nonprofit groups working in five areas: economic empowerment; education and health equity; climate resilience; criminal-justice reform; and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the work force. The insurance company intends to support United Way campaigns, universities, schools, and groups in Milwaukee.

$25 million to the University of Pittsburgh for biomedical research, virtual and in-person collaborations, support for new and expanding life-sciences companies, and inclusive work-force development. The grant will also improve access to vision care for people in need in Pittsburgh and build a “street lab” to test new treatments and therapies to promote eye health.

$22 million in grants to advance education, jobs, entrepreneurship, health and housing for people and communities of color. The grants include $10 million to create the Center for Black Entrepreneurship, a collaboration between the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, Spelman College, and Morehouse College.

$20 million to Unicef to support its Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator and distribute vaccines through the ACT Accelerator’s Covax Facility.

$20 million to the Howard University School of Business to establish the Marriott-Sorenson Center for Hospitality Leadership. The center is named in part for Arne Sorenson, Marriott International’s president and CEO who died on February 15 from pancreatic cancer. The family foundation also pledged $1 million to create the Arne M. Sorenson Hospitality Fund, which will support career development and other programs at the center.

$15 million to Code.org to support its curricular development of the Advanced Placement Computer Science A Java programming course, with a focus on making the course more available to students from racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in technology.

$10 million to the University of Houston to create an unrestricted endowment for the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management.

$6 million to nonprofit groups in Florida that are addressing needs in early education, mental health, and building equitable pathways to education, healthcare, and legal services in Florida. First 1,000 Days Sarasota, the Florida Center for Early Childhood, and Children First are sharing $1 million to offer support services for infant and young children.

$5 million over five years to the University of California at Los Angeles to establish the UCLA Mellon Social Justice Curriculum, which will be taught in the divisions of humanities and social sciences.

$4 million to the National Park Foundation to continue its Open OutDoors for Kids program over the next four years. This program aims to help children engage in classroom activities and field trips to visit national parks, with a specific focus on increasing access for elementary schoolchildren who come from communities of color in both rural and urban areas.

$2 million to more than 50 local nonprofit groups near Princeton, N.J., in its second phase of Covid-19 relief and recovery grants.

$1.6 million to the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums and seven universities to digitally record the oral histories of Native Americans. The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library will use its $200,000 grant to preserve original reel-to-reel tapes containing interviews with tribal leaders from the Southwest, the Upper Colorado Plateau, and the Great Basin that were recorded in the 1960s and 1970s.

$1 million to the Columbus Museum of Art to endow a curatorial fellowship for diversity and inclusion in the arts.

$1 million to Columbia Journalism School to create a scholarship for underrepresented students who are seeking careers in journalism.

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