Grants Roundup: Google Gives $1 Million for Stonewall History Project

An unidentified group celebrates outside New York City’s Stonewall Inn after the June 1969 demonstrations that fueled the modern gay-rights movement. Google’s charitable arm is giving $1 million for projects related to the history and legacy of the Stonewall riots. An unidentified group celebrates outside New York City’s Stonewall Inn after the June 1969 demonstrations that fueled the modern gay-rights movement. Google’s charitable arm is giving $1 million for projects related to the history and legacy of the Stonewall riots.

June 21, 2017 | Read Time: 1 minute

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Boston Foundation and SkillWorks

A $10 million commitment over five years to work-force-development programs in Boston.

Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

$7.5 million over three years to five Allen Distinguished Investigators conducting research about aging, epigenetics, and microbial evolution. Recipients include researchers at the Broad Institute, Duke University, the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Illinois.

Jay Paul Company

$4.8 million to the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula in Northern California to renovate its building.

Citi Foundation

$4.5 million to Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s training programs to help young city dwellers develop business skills.

Kresge Foundation

$1.3 million to 10 organizations in Memphis, Tenn., for programs that help low-income residents. Grant recipients include the Historic Broad Avenue Arts Association, Leadership Memphis, and the Memphis Library Foundation.

Google.org

$1 million to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City to preserve oral histories of people who participated in the 1969 Stonewall uprising, which was a turning point in the LGBT movement, and create a curriculum about the event with the National Park Foundation.

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