$30 Million Storytelling Fund Seeded by Ford, Skoll, and Compton Foundations

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Equality Can’t Wait Challenge

$48 million to six nonprofit groups that are working toward gender equality. Grants of $10 million each went to the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Caring Across Generations; Ada Developers Academy; Girls Inc.; and New Mexico Community Capital and Native Women Lead. FreeForm and Ignite each received $4 million.

Read more about the Equality Can’t Wait Challenge in the Chronicle.

First Horizon, Regions Bank, and Truist

$30 million to Pathway Lending and the Memphis Medical District Collaborative to create the Memphis Medical District Investment Fund, a capital fund to bolster inclusive real-estate development through residential and mixed-use projects in the Memphis Medical District. Pathway Lending is a nonprofit community-development financial institution.

Each bank is donating $10 million. The Kresge Foundation is also providing a guarantee of up to $6 million, and the Hyde Family Foundation will pay an undisclosed amount for additional operating support.

International Resource for Impact and Storytelling

$30 million over three years through this new program that will make grants to strengthen visual storytelling as a method of examining and promoting climate solutions, democracy, women’s leadership, and the causes of inequality.

The Ford Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and Compton Foundation have seeded the program with $8 million in initial funding.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$20 million to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to continue its pandemic response efforts, including testing, vaccines, and treatments for Africans with Covid-19.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

$20 million to Iona College to establish the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences on the college’s campus in Bronxville.

New Breath Foundation and the East Bay Community Foundation

$10 million to create the We Got Us Fund, which will support Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in Northern California.

SRB Charitable Corporation

$10 million to the Baylor College of Medicine for research on complex conditions that affect vision, including cataract and intraocular lens problems, iris repair, and problems following LASIK and PRK procedures.

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

$5.1 million to 79 museums and visual-art institutions through the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative. This represents about half of a $10 million commitment to the program to support energy efficiency and clean-energy projects for the visual arts in the United States over the next two years.

Iacocca Family Foundation

$3 million to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian to expand its program to treat Type 1 diabetes at the Mary and Dick Allen Diabetes Center.

Lee Iacocca, former president of the Ford Motor Company and CEO of the Chrysler Corporation, died in 2019. His wife, Mary, died from complications of Type 1 diabetes in 1983.

Anschutz Foundation

$2 million commitment to Colorado State University for research to prevent future pandemics by developing ways to reduce infectious-disease transmission among animals and people.

W.M. Keck Foundation

$1.2 million to Case Western Reserve University to explore the effect of ecological factors from millions of years ago on the evolution of humans.

Richard P. Kimmel and Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation

$1 million to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln to help build the Nebraska Equine Sports Complex.

New Grant Opportunity

The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund is accepting proposals from small to midsize arts organizations in New York that address mental health through arts and creativity for people in historically marginalized and vulnerable communities. Arts and community-based cultural organizations must be located in New York City, have been operating for at least five years, work with historically marginalized groups, and have operating budgets between $50,000 and $5 million. Grants will range from $10,000 to $100,000 per year over up to two years. Applications are due August 31.

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