Moore Foundation Commits $110 Million for Wildfire Resilience

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$110 million over six years to back its Wildfire Resilience Initiative, which will develop better technology to monitor and predict wildfires more accurately.

The program aims to reduce the risk of severely damaging wildfires while cultivating smaller, controlled burns that foster healthier forests.

Read more in the Chronicle about philanthropy’s role in mitigating the risk of wildfires.

Timashev Family Foundation

$110 million to Ohio State University to establish the Center for Software Innovation.

The grant will endow professorships for faculty within the College of Engineering and Fisher College of Business, as well as create opportunities for students in entrepreneurship and education in software innovation, product management, sales, and marketing. The center will also serve as a hub for innovation, entrepreneurship, and product development in the Columbus region.

Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation

$50 million commitment to Purdue University to back the undergraduate institute in the Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. School of Business.

The institute will be named for Bruce White, a 1975 graduate of the university who was the founder and chairman of White Lodging; he died in January at age 70. He was the son of Barbara and Dean White, an entrepreneur in Indiana whose company held investments in billboards, real estate, and hotel development.

Open Society Foundations

$20 million commitment to seed the Baltimore Community Fellowship and the future of social-justice philanthropy in the city as the grant maker plans to close its Open Society Institute-Baltimore affiliate by the end of 2023.

OSI-Baltimore has operated for 25 years to strengthen racial justice in the region by pursuing criminal-justice reform, civic engagement, health equity, economic justice, overdose-prevention strategies, and other programs.

Starr Foundation

$25 million to Yale School of Medicine for financial aid that will enable Yale medical students to take out no more than $10,000 in loans per year.

Cherokee Nation

$18 million to build a drug-treatment center in Oklahoma that will serve Cherokee citizens with substance-use disorder. An additional $5 million will endow tribal scholarships for Cherokee students to pursue college and graduate degrees in behavioral health fields and develop a pipeline of therapists and medical professionals to staff the new facilities.

The tribe received nearly $100 million as part of an opioid settlement.

Detroit Arts Support

$12 million over three years for general operating support at 78 arts and cultural organizations in the Detroit metropolitan area.

The Kresge Foundation, the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, and the Hudson-Webber Foundation contributed to this grant-making effort.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

$10 million over five years to the University of California at Berkeley to create the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative, a new multidisciplinary research center dedicated to political economy.

The Hewlett Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.

Nike

$8.9 million through its Black Community Commitment program to 53 national and local nonprofit organizations that strengthen education, economic empowerment, and social justice.

Among the new grantees, the athletic-wear company gave $750,000 to Build, Fearless Foundation, and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.

Humana Foundation

$2.5 million commitment to FoodCorps to reach more students in schools and districts in the South over the next three years.

Lilly Endowment

$2.5 million to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to expand its program on ethics, religion, and the Holocaust and establish an endowment for the program’s director.

The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.

Jordan Brand

$2.3 million to 48 grassroots organizations across the United States that advance economic justice, education, narrative change, and social justice for Black people.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$2.3 million to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for research on Covid-19 susceptibility through its Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine.

Rite Aid Healthy Futures

$1 million to EmbraceRace to create tools and resources for early-childhood educators, parents, guardians, and other caregivers to help children learn about race in healthy, identity-affirming ways.

New Grant Opportunity

Philanthropy Roundtable is accepting nominations for the 2023 Simon-DeVos Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. The prize honors a philanthropist who exemplifies the values of faith in God, helping people to help themselves, individual freedom, personal responsibility, resourcefulness, scholarship, or volunteerism. The 2023 recipient will receive a $200,000 cash award, payable to the charity of the winner’s choice. Nominations are due March 22.

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