Henry Luce Foundation Awards $12.3 Million to Improve Gender Diversity in STEM

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Henry Luce Foundation

$12.3 million through its Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM and STEM Convergence Program for efforts to advance gender diversity at the leadership level in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$12 million to seven research organizations to study how to help people with Type 1 diabetes safely incorporate exercise into their daily habits while keeping their blood sugar levels under control.

Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation

$11.8 million to organizations in Floroda’s Sarasota County.

The grants include $4.8 million to strengthen area public schools and preschools, and $3 million over three years to expand the Community News Collaborative.

New York Community Trust

$7.7 million to 39 nonprofit groups in New York that are serving a range of community needs, including legal services for new immigrants, wraparound support for cancer patients, aid for entrepreneurs who are women of color, and locating studio space for artists in the city.

Admirals Cove Foundation

$5 million to Jupiter Medical Center to support its Center for Imaging, which will be named for the foundation.

Fiducia Fund

$5 million over five years to the public-media station GBH to support The Culture Show, a daily radio program on arts and culture in the Boston area.

Mellon Foundation

$5 million to the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation to restore and preserve the civil-rights activist’s home, library, and tomb in Accra, Ghana, in partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Tourism Art and Culture.

Wyss Foundation

$5 million to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to purchase the 15,500-acre Minam River Ranch in northeast Oregon and donate it to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to conserve this wildlife habitat in perpetuity.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$3 million to the University of Zurich to conduct studies on people with HIV in Switzerland and South Africa and help develop a preventative HIV vaccine.

SECU Foundation

$2 million challenge grant to Good Shepherd Center to help build a new supportive-housing facility with 32 apartments for military veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities in Wilmington, N.C.

Liquid I.V.

$1.9 million to five grantees for projects to increase worldwide access to clean water.

The recipients are DigDeep, MAP International, Mothers of the Amazon, Save the Children, and Water for People.

Aflac Foundation

$1.5 million to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Of the total, $1 million will support clinical research at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. The other $500,000 will serve patients in need at Children’s Hughes Spalding Sickle Cell Clinic.

Ford Foundation

$1.1 million to Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe to back an exhibition on the work of the Indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson, which will be shown during the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

The Ford Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.

Cowlitz Indian Tribe

$1 million to Clark College to offer emergency grants for students at the community college who experience unexpected obstacles that could interfere with their education, and to establish the Clark College Innovation Fund, which will back student-faculty research.

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