National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Awards $33.5 Million to Protect Longleaf Pine Forests

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

$33.5 million through its Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund for efforts to restore and protect longleaf pine forests in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas.

The conservation fund received $30 million from the Bezos Earth Fund last year.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

$25 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to establish the SNF Global Pediatric Cancer Program, which will enhance the cancer hospital’s clinical care, educational and specialized training, and collaborative research on childhood cancers.

Safe Online

$10 million to 23 projects to advance policies and regulations that reduce the risk of the sexual exploitation and abuse of children online.

New York Community Trust

$7.1 million across 46 nonprofit groups in New York to address needs for the city’s residents, such as affordable housing, access to high-quality food and health care, animal welfare, cancer care, conservation efforts, civic participation, education for people with disabilities, and youth empowerment.

AgMission and PepsiCo

$6.7 million to researchers in Australia, Mexico, and Canada for studies on the climate effects of farming practices that rely on regenerative agriculture principles.

Charles Sturt University, in Australia received $3.7 million. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, in Mexico, and the South East Research Farm, in Canada, each received $1.5 million.

Google.org

$5 million to Apolitical to offer training to one million government workers worldwide in the responsible use of artificial intelligence.

Borealis Philanthropy

$4.2 million through its Communities Transforming Policing Fund to 37 grassroots organizations to increase police accountability and develop new public-safety strategies.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$4 million over three years to the Alan Turing Institute to help countries meet the requirements for secure digital public infrastructure and expand access to public and private services such as health care, education, finance, and more.

AARP

$3.8 million to 343 projects through its Community Challenge program to make communities more accessible for older people through improvements to transportation, housing, and social connections for people over age 50.

United Health Foundation

$3.2 million to East Carolina University’s Center for Telepsychiatry to expand the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program, which offers mental health care over the phone and Internet to children and adolescents in rural parts of the state.

Amazon Web Services

$3 million to bolster children’s health.

Grants of $1 million each went to Children’s National, in Washington, D.C.; Nationwide Children’s Hospital, in Columbus; and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Children’s Brain Tumor Network, in Philadelphia.

Walder Foundation

$2.4 million to give unrestricted support, professional development, and networking opportunities to 12 performing artists in music, theater, dance, and related fields in the Chicago area.

Each grantee will receive $200,000.

Sozosei Foundation

$2.2 million to 36 organizations to increase access to mental health care in rural and urban communities and enhance intervention strategies to help keep people with mental illness out of prison.

Eisner Foundation

$2 million to 22 organizations to support the arts, community development, and programs for youths, primarily in New York City.

Green Bay Packers Foundation

$1.8 million to 10 community-development and youth-services charities that serve residents of Wisconsin’s Brown, Dane, and Milwaukee counties.

New Grant Opportunity

The Center for Nonprofit Advancement is accepting nominations for its Phyllis Campbell Newsome Public Policy Leadership Award, which recognizes public officials who go above and beyond in advocating on behalf of nonprofit groups. Four winners are selected each year. Elected and nonelected officials from Virginia, Maryland’s Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, and Washington, D.C., are eligible to receive the award. Nominations are due July 19.

Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.