Mastercard Foundation Pledges $200 Million to Its Young Africa Works Program (Grants Roundup)

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Mastercard Foundation

$200 million over 10 years to its Young Africa Works program in Uganda, which aims to help more than 3 million young Ugandans and refugees find dignified and fulfilling work opportunities in agriculture, tourism and hospitality, and construction and housing by 2030.

Southern Poverty Law Center

$30 million commitment to voter-outreach organizations through its new Vote Your Voice program. This summer, $5.5 million has been awarded to 12 recipients in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi, including $1 million to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition.

Bayer AG and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$18.1 million to Johns Hopkins University for the Challenge Initiative, a global program based at the Bloomberg School of Public Health that provides contraception and supports other reproductive-health needs of women and girls who live in poor urban communities in Africa and Asia. The program received $10.6 million from Bayer and $7.5 million from the Gates Foundation.

Medtronic Foundation

$16 million commitment to organizations that are working toward social justice and racial equity and to improve the lives of Black Americans. Among the first grantees are the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the Northside Achievement Zone, and the People’s Center Clinics & Services.

St. Baldrick’s Foundation

$12.9 million across 53 grants to back childhood-cancer research.

AT&T

$10 million commitment to make grants this year that will foster economic opportunities for Black and underserved communities where social inequities and unemployment have worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Craig H. Neilsen Foundation

$10 million in emergency grants to support people with spinal-cord injuries and to back critical research during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Walton Charitable Support Foundation

$8 million to John Brown University to endow an academic chair for data analytics and endow a scholarship to support students who are majoring in computer science or data analytics.

EagleBank

$5 million commitment to the Washington Housing Initiative to preserve and create low-cost housing in the D.C. region.

Google.org

$4 million to Larkin Street Youth Services, Abode Services, and Sunnyvale Community Services for programs to address the homelessness crisis that is affecting families, youths, and vulnerable communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Pershing Square Foundation

$3 million to 19 grantees at 10 academic research institutions that are conducting research related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

$2.5 million to Homeboy Industries for unrestricted support of its intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry services for former gang members. This organization is the winner of the foundation’s 2020 Humanitarian Prize.

Open Society Foundations

$1.3 million to the Pop Culture Collaborative to create the Becoming America Fund, which will make at least $3.5 million in grants to support pop-culture artists, entertainment companies, and social-justice activists. Other foundations that have contributed to the fund include the Ford Foundation, General Service Foundation, JPB Foundation, Luminate, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Novo Foundations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ford Foundation, and the JPB Foundation

$1.2 million to the Fresh Air Fund for its Summer Spaces and Youth Employment Programs in New York City, which is creating opportunities for children in the city to play outdoors safely and for teenagers to gain work experience and earn money during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Giant Company

$1 million to the Children’s Miracle Network at Penn State Children’s Hospital to support a car seat safety program, host a health and wellness program in schools near University Park, Pa., and expand the pediatric hospital.

HBO

$1 million to Howard University to endow a fund that will benefit students who are pursuing careers in the arts and entertainment industries.

New Grant Opportunity

The POISE Foundation is accepting applications for grants through its Human Equity and Justice Fund in honor of Black Philanthropy Month. Rapid–response mini-grants will award up to $2,500 each to Black-led organizations and movements that are on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis and addressing its effects on the Black community in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County. Applications for these mini-grants are due on August 15 and August 30. Racial–equity seed grants are worth up to $5,000 each for Black-led group that are advancing youth leadership training and opportunities, community-based intergenerational collaborations, and social-justice programs that benefit Black people. Applications for seed grants are due August 10.

The Cummings Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for its $25 Million Grant Program, which will award multiyear grants of $100,000 each to 100 nonprofit groups based in Middlesex, Essex, and Suffolk Counties in Massachusetts. Another 40 previous grantees will receive 10-year grants ranging from $200,000 to $500,000 each. Letters of inquiry are due September 4.

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