Allegheny Foundation Gives $30 Million to Carnegie Mellon U.: Grants Roundup

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Allegheny Foundation

$30 million to Carnegie Mellon University to demolish and rebuild Scaife Hall, which houses its College of Engineering department.

Tableau Software

$25 million in company stock to the Tableau Foundation to address global health, poverty, equality, and climate change. The foundation will then grant $20 million over six years for those causes. In addition, Tableau will donate software and training it values at $80 million for those efforts.

Wounded Warrior Project

$20.1 million to Operation Mend at the University of California at Los Angeles Health to expand its intensive treatment program for veterans with post-traumatic stress and mild traumatic brain injuries, and provide support to their caregivers.

Hellman Fellows Fund

$20 million challenge grant to University of California at Berkeley to create the Society of Hellman Fellows and double the number of fellowships awarded to early-career faculty in arts, humanities, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and social sciences.

Testa Development

$15 million pledge to Akron Children’s Hospital for the Akron Children’s Health Center, which is expected to open next summer. The real-estate company is leasing the new health center to the hospital and will donate the facility back to the hospital upon completion of its 30-year lease.

Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

$5 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art to create an endowment to process and digitize material on art by minority artists in the museum’s collections.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

$2 million to the Schott Foundation for Public Education for efforts to reduce racial biases in school discipline policies and improve school climates for minority students.

Schwartz Ward Family Foundation

$1.2 million to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to study and develop new immunotherapy treatments for myeloma and lymphoma.

Sanderson Farms

$1 million pledge to the American Red Cross for ongoing relief efforts in areas damaged during Hurricanes Florence and Michael.

Strada Education Network

$1 million over two years to Paul Quinn College to build the first expansion site of its urban work-college model in Plano, Tex., which will enable students to work while attending classes and reduce the cost of attaining a college degree.

New Grant Opportunity

The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation is accepting proposals for grants from the Healthy Food Fund. The fund will make grants of up to $25,000 a year to 25 local nonprofits in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire that work primarily with volunteer networks to distribute fresh, free produce to low-income families and older adults. A total of $625,000 will be awarded in 2019. Proposals are due November 9.

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