Bezos Earth Fund Pledges $60 Million to Develop Protein Alternatives to Meat

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bezos Earth Fund

$60 million commitment to establish the Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein, which will advance science and research to reduce cost and boost the taste, nutrition, and quality of plant-based, protein-rich foods.

Doris Duke Foundation

$33 million over three years through Opportunities for Prevention and Transformation, its new program that will help families protect children at high risk of abuse and neglect.

Kataly Foundation

$20 million to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust to reclaim land in the San Francisco Bay Area for the Lisjan (Ohlone) tribe.

TD Bank Group

$10 million to the 10 recipients of its TD Ready Challenge to support nonprofit and charitable organizations that address systemic barriers to affordable, transitional, or permanent housing in the United States and Canada.

Share Our Strength

$6.7 million across 28 organizations that address the root causes of poverty and help families become financially stable, particularly those headed by low-income single mothers.

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

$5 million to back projects in climate-change mitigation in the Pacific Northwest.

Ford Foundation

$4 million through the Spyware Accountability Initiative, in partnership with Apple, to study, mitigate, and address the harms of spyware on civil society.

Additional support for the program has come from Open Society Foundations, Okta for Good, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.

The Ford Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$1.5 million to Village Enterprise for two projects to create pathways out of extreme poverty in Kenya.

The Drake Gives

$1.5 million to the University of California at Irvine’s School of Social Ecology for its new Power of Music program, which aims to use music to drive social progress and well-being.

Mellon Foundation

$1.5 million to the Nonprofit Finance Fund to strengthen community organizations that preserve historical records and storytelling in rural areas, lower-income regions, and communities of color.

RRF Foundation for Aging

$1.2 million to six grantees to support a variety of health and social-service needs for older adults and their families.

New Grant Opportunity

Young Futures is accepting applications for grants through its Lonely Hearts Club program, in partnership with the Foundation for Social Connection. The program will support early-stage nonprofit groups that serve young people ages 10 to 19 and foster healthy connections with other youths in their communities. The program expects to award up to $1 million in total and offer leadership training to ten organizations in this first round. Applications are due April 5.

Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.