Bank of America Awards $50 Million for Racial Equity in Economic Opportunity (Grants Roundup)

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bank of America

$50 million to support colleges and universities that teach job skills in areas that have predominantly Black and Latino populations, and to back other community outreach and development activities. Among the grantees are North Carolina A&T State University, Atlanta Technical College, Dallas College — El Centro Campus, Arizona State University — Downtown Phoenix, and Delaware State University.

Boston Celtics and the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation

$20 million over 10 years to create Boston Celtics United for Social Justice, a program to address racial injustice and social inequities in the metropolitan Boston area, with an emphasis on combating anti-Black racism. Of this total, the basketball team already pledged $10 million to jump-start the NBA Foundation.

Alfred Landecker Foundation

$13 million to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for academic programs that focus on the causes and consequences of the Holocaust and promote the university’s studies of human rights, authoritarianism and nationalism, protecting minority populations from genocide, and rectifying historical injustices.

Fidelity Charitable Trustees’ Initiative

$12.7 million to 40 grantees working to help all nonprofits during the Covid-19 pandemic by upgrading their technology, creating resources to increase donor effectiveness, and providing disaster relief.

Duke Endowment

$11 million to Duke University to create the Purpose Project, a campuswide student program that is focused on exploring matters of character, questions of life’s purpose, and the meaning of one’s life work.

Charles Koch Foundation

$10 million to Arizona State University for the University Design Institute, which is developing new education methods and technological innovations to improve higher education through partnerships with leaders of other universities. The Morgridge Family Foundation also granted $1 million to the effort.

Sherman Fairchild Foundation

$10 million to Denison University for global study and research opportunities for students and young alumni, and to expand support for the Knowlton Career Center.

Google.org

$8.5 million to 31 nongovernmental organizations and academic institutions that are using artificial intelligence and data-science technology to aid their international Covid-19 relief efforts.

Overdeck Family Foundation

$8.2 million to five nonprofit groups working in education and early-childhood development. The foundation in New York gave $3 million over two years to New York University for general operating support at its ParentCorps program for families in disadvantaged neighborhoods; $2.2 million over two years to LENA, which provides technology-based programs to accelerate the language development of children from birth to age 3; $1 million to the University of Washington for general operating support related to the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and its research on early learning and brain development; and $1 million each to ST Math and Zearn to create resources that support parents in distance teaching and students in distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sanford Health

$5 million to Samaritan’s Feet for its capital campaign to expand its global efforts to provide shoes to people who are at risk of contracting infectious disease through contaminated soil.

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

$4.1 million to the Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation for a program at HealthMPowers to help girls in middle school across Georgia improve their physical fitness.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$1.8 million to George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health for a program to correct malnutrition during pregnancy and improve maternal and newborn health.

Wounded Warrior Project

$1 million to the Elizabeth Dole Foundation to help caregivers by providing 35,000 hours of respite care to disabled veterans and members of the military.

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