March 24, 2021 | Read Time: 4 minutes
Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation
$35 million to the Hospital for Special Surgery to build a medical tower that will house in-patient rooms, multidisciplinary medical teams, and imaging services for joint replacement, spine care, and other complex orthopedic conditions.
The hospital specializes in complex orthopedic conditions, rheumatology, and sports injuries.
Kuni Foundation
$13.2 million to nonprofit groups in Oregon and Washington to bolster cancer research that improves detection and treatment in minority communities and to increase access to housing for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Among the grants is $1.4 million for a partnership between the University of Washington Medicine and Washington State University to work with tribal communities on culturally appropriate solutions and expand access to cancer detection and treatment.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$10.1 million to the Iowa Department of Public Health Bureau of Emergency and Trauma Services to purchase 4,000 automatic external defibrillators that will help first responders improve survival rates for people in cardiac arrest.
HPS Investment Partners and the Kapnick Foundation
$10 million to Howard University’s School of Business to create the HPS Center for Financial Excellence, which will focus preparing students at the historically Black university for careers in private investment and investment banking. The grant will also establish two endowed scholarship funds to cover tuition for undergraduate and graduate business students.
Sunderland Foundation
$10 million to the National WWI Museum and Memorial to update its main gallery, visitor spaces, and courtyard.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary Foundation, and World Vision USA
$6 million to create the Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia program, led by the Rotary Foundation. Each group is contributing $2 million to the program to hire 2,500 community health workers to aid in the fight against malaria in Zambia.
Kaiser Permanente
$5.4 million commitment to Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Stop AAPI Hate, and other organizations to address the surge in racially motivated violence against people of Asian descent and to advance the rights, health, and well-being of Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
Mastercard Impact Fund
$5 million to Weill Cornell Medicine for a diversity and inclusion program to recruit and retain faculty members from underrepresented backgrounds.
Ford Foundation
$4.5 million to create the Reclaiming the Border Narrative program, which will bring together immigrants’ rights advocates, Latino artists, writers, and nonprofit groups in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to amplify stories of people and communities that live along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The foundation is partnering with Borealis Philanthropy, the Center for Cultural Power, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, and the Southwest Folklife Alliance on the program.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$3 million to Silkroad, an arts organization founded by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, to expand educational programs in social justice and equity and to back new musical projects.
Jewish Community Response and Impact Fund
$2.6 million to the Foundation for Jewish Camp to support 32 Jewish summer camps and add space to accommodate more campers and staff this year while still meeting Covid-19 safety guidelines.
Futures Forum on Learning
$1.5 million to the 18 winners of its Tools Competition, which solicited proposals to help students recover from pandemic-related learning losses and advance the field of learning engineering. The prize money came from Schmidt Futures and Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel.
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
$1 million to Team Rubicon to establish 500 vaccination sites across the United States and ensure that military veterans have equitable access to the Covid-19 vaccine.
New Grant Opportunity
The Cigna Foundation has issued a call for applications for its new Health and Well-Being grant program, which will award more than $3 million to nonprofit groups and community organizations to eliminate racial disparities in access to health care. Grants between $25,000 and $125,000 will be awarded for programs that increase access to health care or primary care, or that bolster health literacy among marginalized communities. Applications are due April 23.
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