Arnold Ventures Promises $39 Million for Pretrial Justice Reform: Grants Roundup

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Arnold Ventures

$39 million to the National Partnership for Pretrial Justice to support collaborative research, technical assistance, policy development, and advocacy at organizations that are working to reform pretrial justice in the United States. Arnold Ventures is the newly created limited-liability company that was formerly known as the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

Duke Endowment

$24 million to Davidson College to augment the James B. Duke Scholars Program, which provides full-tuition scholarships to undergraduates.

Petco Foundation

$14 million to pet shelters and animal-welfare organizations in the United States. Among the recipients, Palm Valley Animal Center received $1 million for its pet-adoption program in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley.

Bloomberg Philanthropies

$10 million to organizations in Michigan for their drug-intervention efforts, including data analysis and naloxone distribution to reduce the number of opioid overdoses. The grant is part of a $50 million commitment to fighting opioid abuse that the billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg unveiled last fall.

Kaiser Permanente

$3 million over three years to Community Solutions for its Built for Zero program, which collects and analyzes data to help local leaders better understand the root causes of chronic homelessness in 15 communities in California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and adopt solutions to end the conditions that result in homelessness.

Vantage Deluxe World Travel

$1.8 million to West End House Boys & Girls Club to renovate and expand this youth club outside Boston.

ACE Clearwater Enterprises

$1.5 million to the Catalina Island Conservancy to repave the airport’s runway on the island off the Los Angeles coastline.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

$1.5 million to the Motown Museum to boost its community programs, including summer camps, spoken-word poetry events, and singing contests.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$1.2 million to George Washington University for research at the Milken Institute School of Public Health to identify possible routes of transmission of campylobacter bacteria, which can cause fatal dysentery, in a rural area of Bangladesh.

Badia Spices

$1 million to Florida International University to endow a scholarship at the Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management.

New Grant Opportunity

The Walt Disney Company and the National Recreation and Park Association have committed $1 million to fund projects that increase access to playgrounds for children and families in public parks nationwide. This year, 15 grants will be awarded in the priority areas of Austin, Tex.; Brevard County, Fla.; Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago; Durham, N.C.; Fresno, Calif.; Hartford, Conn.; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Philadelphia; San Francisco; and Seattle. Another 10 grants will be awarded to U.S. organizations outside these areas. Applications are due April 12.

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