Gates Awards $122 Million to Test HIV Prevention Drug; Zoetis Fund Gives $35 Million to Farmers and Veterinarians

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$122 million over five years to the University of Washington School of Medicine to conduct a randomized trial of islatravir, a pill that can be taken once a month to prevent HIV in women.

The foundation is also giving $2.1 billion over the next five years in a new effort to advance financial inclusion to benefit women, strengthen health and family planning access for women and girls, and help women become leaders in their fields, primarily in health, law, and economics. Read more of the Chronicle’s coverage of this new commitment announced at the Generation Equality Forum today.

Ford Foundation

$420 million over five years to address gender inequality worldwide, especially for women and girls who have been hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and its financial fallout.

Zoetis Foundation

$35 million over five years to make grants to advance livelihood opportunities for veterinarians and farmers through veterinary-school debt relief; additional diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; and support for mental wellness and economic development for farmers and veterinarians in the United States as well as in Africa, Australia, Brazil, China, and Europe.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$20 million to Engineering Ministries International to make improvements to water, sanitation, and hygiene systems in homes located in rural parts of Alaska.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

$15 million commitment to bolster Covid-19 response and recovery efforts in hard-hit communities that are predominantly Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other people of color across the United States.

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

$15 million to Georgia State University to renovate the Southern Bell Telephone Company buildings in Atlanta and turn them into a student success center.

Lever for Change

$10 million to the Renewable Thermal Collaborative, a joint project of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, David Gardiner and Associates, and World Wildlife Fund, as the recipient of the 2030 Climate Challenge. The collaborative aims to reduce the environmental impact of greenhouse-gas emissions from thermal energy for industrial production.

Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation

$10 million matching grant to Crossroads YMCA to build a new 100,000-square-foot facility in Hammond, Ind., that will include programs on wellness for kids, seniors, and families. The City of Hammond is matching the grant dollar for dollar.

Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation

$7.5 million to Spelman College to endow two professorships in film and filmmaking, television, and related media, as well as an endowed scholarship fund for students in the historically Black college’s documentary-film program.

CURE Childhood Cancer

$3 million to the Aflac Cancer Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Emory University to support its precision-medicine program, research projects on childhood cancer, and the training of two pediatric-oncology fellows.

Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America

$3 million over five years to Unicef to continue its work with the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator to deliver vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic supplies to quell the pandemic worldwide.

Wyss Foundation

$2.5 million to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities to develop and shape policies that address economic and racial inequities resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.

John A. Hartford Foundation

$1.6 million over two years to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale University to support the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative and expand its education, practice support, and evaluation activities.

Ballmer Group

$1.5 million to NAF to partner with the Detroit Public Schools Community District, the School District of the City of Pontiac, the Southfield Public School District, and neighboring districts to bolster education and workforce-development programs in the Detroit area.

Delta Dental Community Care Foundation

$1.5 million to 22 food banks throughout California.

Kresge Foundation

$1.2 million to the New Economy Initiative for its Anchor Business Grant Program, which will make grants and offer advice to 25 small businesses and communities in Detroit that are recovering from the pandemic.

Edgerton Foundation

$1.1 million to 28 theatrical productions to pay for extra time to develop and rehearse new plays as theaters reopen after a full year of closure during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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