Helen Diller Family Foundation Commits $300 Million for Housing at the U. of California at Berkeley

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Helen Diller Family Foundation

$300 million to the University of California at Berkeley to convert several historic buildings adjacent to campus into a 14-story, 772-bed housing complex, predominantly for students who are transferring to the university from community colleges.

The university announced the grant to create Anchor House in January, but the amount and the name of the foundation only became public in advance of a Board of Regents vote later this month to accept it. The grant will pay to design and build the student residential facility on university property, then the foundation will donate the completed building to the university.

Cleveland Foundation

$40.4 million in grants to improve the lives of people living in Ohio. Among the grants is $1 million to the United States Energy Foundation to expand its Power a Clean Future Ohio project and the Ohio Climate Justice Fund.

Population Action International

$27 million over five years to advance policy and programs to expand access to sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide. At least one-third of the commitment will go to organizations led by women, young people, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

St. David’s Foundation

$24.5 million to 48 recipients for continuing pandemic recovery efforts in Texas, with a focus on advancing health equity and supporting children and families. Among the grantees, the United Way for Greater Austin received $1 million for early-childhood services.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$15 million to Howard University to establish the Center for Journalism and Democracy, which will be led by the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Knight Foundation has also endowed a chair at the historically Black university in her honor. Each foundation committed $5 million, matched with another gift of $5 million from an anonymous donor.

Trinity Church Wall Street

$15 million to 100 organizations working in social justice, with a focus on mass incarceration, homelessness, and other issues of racial equity in New York City. The grants range from $40,000 to $750,000.

California Black Freedom Fund

$9 million to 74 Black-led groups across California for general operating support.

Annenberg Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$6 million to the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation to help create a memorial in Washington dedicated to freedom of the press and slain journalists. The Annenberg Foundation will match up to $2.6 million from other foundations that donate to early-stage seed funding.

Iacocca Family Foundation

$5 million to Lehigh University to endow the Iacocca Institute, which offers global leadership and entrepreneurship programs.

Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation

$4.1 million through its Generator Z program to support 93 nonprofit after-school programs that serve teens in southeast Michigan and western New York. Grants in this round ranged between $10,000 and $100,000 each.

Generator Z recruits teenagers to determine the recipients of grants, with a focus on bolstering innovative after-school programs.

Ball Brothers Foundation

$3.3 million in grants for Covid-19 vaccine distribution and public campaigns at local health organizations, support for schools in Indiana’s Delaware County, and other community-development efforts.

New York Women’s Foundation

$3 million to 28 organizations that advance racial equity, reduce incarceration in New York City, provide economic stability for low-income families, and eliminate gender-based violence.

Fund for New Leadership

$2.9 million over three years to support a fellowship program at 13 organizations to advance social, racial, and economic equity in their local communities. Each organization will receive an unrestricted grant of $225,000 over three years to support their fellows.

Charles H. Revson Foundation

$2 million to The City for general operating support at this nonprofit digital news outlet. The grant will also help expand its audience and coverage of public-affairs issues important to New Yorkers.

Flexjet

$1 million to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for the new Thomas W. Haas We All Fly gallery.

Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation

$1 million pledge to the Israel Philharmonic to establish the music director’s chair.

Sheth Sangreal Foundation

$1 million over five years to the Discovery Museum to develop on-site renewable energy, reduce water usage, minimize waste, and create an environmental-education program at this children’s museum in Acton, Mass.

New Grant Opportunity

The American Bar Endowment is accepting proposals for Opportunity Grants, which support law-related research, projects, and programs. Grants will be awarded to projects that enhance access to legal services, promote the rule of law, improve the justice system, and increase the public’s civic engagement and understanding of the legal system. Optional letters of intent are due August 18, with full proposals due October 1.

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