Grants Roundup: MathWorks Gives Science Museum $10 Million for New Exhibit

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

MathWorks

$10 million to the Museum of Science, Boston, for the development of a new technology and engineering exhibit, scheduled to open in 2020.

General Motors

$5 million to The Henry Ford, a museum and exhibit center dedicated to American innovation.

Wegman Family Charitable Foundation

$5 million to Rochester Regional Health for patient care and building renovations.

John Templeton Foundation

$2.6 million to the Thrive Center at Fuller Theological Seminary for a three-year study of virtues in adolescents across different environments.

Kirkpatrick Philanthropies

$2 million to Oklahoma City Ballet to endow the professional ballet company and support its school and a new building.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$1.5 million for the New Americans Campaign, which seeks to help immigrants with green cards become citizens.

Grants to help survivors of the Napa Valley fires:

Napa Valley Community Foundation

$565,000 to nonprofits providing temporary shelter, food, medical care, mental health services, emergency childcare, transportation, legal services, and other human services to those affected by the wildfires in Napa County.

Taube Philanthropies

$250,000 to Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties for emergency aid including food, clothing, and housing to victims of the wildfires, as well as longer-term rebuilding efforts.

New grant opportunity:

The Coalition for Community Schools, Communities In Schools, and StriveTogether have established the Students at the Center Challenge, with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Ford Foundation, and will award 10 communities with planning grants of up to $150,000 each. Any community where there is at least one affiliate or member of one of the organization’s networks is eligible to apply. See the program’s website for more information.

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