CARE Gets $18 Million From PepsiCo Foundation for Poor Farm Women: Grants Roundup

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Open Philanthropy Project

$55 million to Georgetown University to create the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, an institute that will review technological advances in the fields of artificial intelligence, advanced computing, and national and international security policy. The think tank will be part of the university’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

AbbVie

$40 million to Neal Math and Science Academy to pay for a new building for this middle school in North Chicago.

PepsiCo Foundation

$18.2 million for CARE, a humanitarian nonprofit, to help 5 million women farmers and their families increase their crop yields and their incomes. The program, called “She Feeds the World,” will tackle gender inequity in some of the world’s poorest farming communities.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$13.2 million to Batavia Biosciences, a Dutch biopharmaceutical company, to manufacture low-cost clinical-grade inactivated polio vaccine for distribution in developing countries.

Chevron Corporation

$5 million to Catalyst for its Men Advocating Real Change program, which trains male executives and leaders to model inclusive behaviors in the workplace and advocate for gender equity in management.

JPMorgan Chase

$5 million to the Strategic Neighborhood Fund for neighborhood revitalization efforts in Detroit. The bank also pledged $10 million in long-term, low-cost loans to expand economic opportunity in the city.

Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation

$4 million to Straub Medical Center to renovate and add on to two surgical suites at the Clarence T.C. Ching Heart Center.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

$2 million to the International African American Museum to create the Center for Family History at the museum, which is slated to open next year in Charleston, S.C.

New Grant Opportunities

The Kresge Foundation is seeking proposals for grants through its Climate Change, Health & Equity program to strengthen the leadership and effectiveness of community organizations working toward developing climate resilience and community health. Planning grants of up to $100,000 each will be awarded to between 12 and 15 community-based nonprofit groups. Letters of intent are due March 19.

The SafetyRespectEquity Coalition will award $1 million in grants to promote women’s leadership and eliminate sexual harassment and gender discrimination within Jewish institutions. A total of $250,000 will be split among groups working on organizational capacity building, and a total of $750,000 will go be split among groups working on field capacity building. The deadline for proposals is March 26.

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Correction: A previous version of this listing failed to say that the $250,000 and $750,000 that the SafetyRespectEquity Coalition has earmarked for capacity building would each be split among multiple groups.