Bayer Commits $160 Million to the Zero Hunger Private Sector Pledge

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bayer

$160 million commitment to the Zero Hunger Private Sector Pledge, a collaborative effort announced at the U.N. Food Systems Summit to unite international companies and organizations that are working to end global hunger.

Bayer’s commitment is designated primarily to support smallholder farmers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and ensure they have access to high-quality vegetable seeds.

Wallace Foundation

$100 million over five years to support nonprofit groups that are pursuing projects to increase equity in the arts.

In the first round of grant making, 18 arts organizations with founders of color have received five-year grants worth between $900,000 to $3.75 million each to develop individual projects that increase public engagement with the arts, particularly within historically marginalized communities.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

$50 million to 12 organizations in its program areas of Catholicism, children and youth, refugees, affordable housing and homelessness, and racial equity.

The largest grant of $5.6 million went to BRAC USA to scale its two-generational program model for refugee and host communities in Uganda.

Comic Relief U.S. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$30 million commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria’s Seventh Replenishment, a project that aim to end deadly diseases including AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and potential future pandemics.

Comic Relief pledged $10 million, which the Gates Foundation promised to match with an additional $20 million toward the effort.

Panda Cares Foundation

$10.5 million to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to offer in-person learning opportunities for kids and teens at more than 500 of its affiliate clubs across the United States.

F.M. Kirby Foundation

$6.1 million across 83 grants for general operating support at nonprofit organizations that work to strengthen communities in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, as well as national charities that are based in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Boeing

$5 million to the University of California at Los Angeles to support faculty at the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, which is housed jointly within the university’s College Division of Physical Sciences and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.

Waymakers Collective

$4.5 million in grants to artists, activists, and cultural leaders in Appalachia, with a focus on communities that are predominantly people of color, LGBTQ+, and immigrants.

Rasmuson Foundation

$3 million to nonprofit groups in Alaska that will expand access to broadband internet using the state’s portion of funding from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$2.5 million to TechCongress for its nonpartisan efforts to place early- and midcareer technologists in offices of members of Congress to serve as advisers on technology policy.

Moody Foundation

$2 million to Galveston Urban Ministries to build a center that will offer job-seeking services and act as an emergency shelter during natural disasters for people living in poverty in Galveston, Tex.

Safe Family Foundation

$1 million to the Plimoth Patuxet Museums to back educational programs on the Mayflower II, a replica of the Pilgrims’ ship that arrived in Massachusetts in 1620.

New Grant Opportunity

JPMorgan Chase is accepting applications for grants through its Annual Challenge, which was previously known as its AdvancingCities Challenge, to advance growth and create more inclusive economic opportunities in marginalized communities around the world. This year, the bank will award three-year grants ranging from $500,000 to $3 million each to as many as 10 organizations or partnerships that are working to drive equitable economic recovery from the pandemic and tackle systemic racial and gender wealth gaps. Nonprofit applicants from 20 geographic markets in the United States are eligible to apply. Proposals are due June 27.

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