Salesforce Awards $23 Million for Work-Force Development in Tech

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Salesforce

$23 million to U.S. school districts and education groups around the world to prepare students for careers in the technology sector. The grants were announced at the tech company’s annual Dreamforce conference.

Of the total, $13 million will go to public middle and high schools across the United States to broaden access to science, technology, engineering, and math education and introduce skills in artificial intelligence. Another $10 million will be allocated to 16 education nonprofits in the United States, France, and Australia, with $6 million directed for A.I. education, skills, and literacy.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$16.8 million for efforts to bolster community and economic development in Charlotte, N.C.

The foundation gave $8.8 million to LISC Charlotte to establish a cooperative grocery store that offers fresh, healthy food to residents of the city’s Historic West End; $5 million to the Charlotte Ballet to build a mixed-use development that houses the performing-arts group’s facilities, as well as mixed-income housing and shops; $2 million to North Carolina News Lab Fund to create Press Forward Charlotte, which will strengthen local journalism; and $1 million to Historic West End Partners to expand its services for small businesses and commercial development.

Google

$15.5 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to back 13 research projects at the MIT-Google Program for Computing Innovation on the ways computing has solved global issues and benefited society.

The technology company is also giving the program $2.5 million in product donations.

Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Spiegel Family Fund, and the American Journalism Project

$15 million to create the L.A. Local News Initiative, a new nonprofit organization that will operate local newsrooms in Los Angeles and make news coverage more representative of the people who live in the city and the issues they face.

The effort has also received grants from the Annenberg Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, the California Community Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, among others.

Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia

$11.6 million to 28 organizations that focus on children and families, education, and economic development, health, and work-force development in the region.

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

$10 million commitment to the University of California at San Diego to build the Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments, which will be housed within the Scripps Institute for Oceanography.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

$5 million over five years to Saha Global to expand access to clean in rural communities in Ghana.

S&P Global Foundation

$5 million over five years to Girls Who Code and Conservation International.

Girls Who Code will receive $2.5 million to train more than 650,000 students for careers in the technology and data sectors. Conservation International will also receive $2.5 million to restore freshwater ecosystems and strengthen environmental resilience in vulnerable regions worldwide.

Foundation for America’s Public Lands

$2.4 million through its Drought Resilience Fund to back two projects in Colorado and Arizona that address drought challenges in the Colorado River Basin.

John A. Hartford Foundation

$1.9 million over three years to the American College of Surgeons to add more hospitals to participate in its Geriatric Surgery Verification program to address postoperative delirium and improve care for elderly patients who undergo surgery.

The foundation also committed $1.9 million over three years to the Education Development Center to continue the National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment, which embeds elder-abuse identification and intervention efforts within existing health and social care for older adults.

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

$1.25 million to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to endow the Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting, which awards $45,000 annually to recognize an artist who demonstrates innovation and experimentation in painting.

The Frankenthaler Foundation created the prize in 2020 with a five-year pledge, and the new grant will endow it in perpetuity.

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Arizona

$1.1 million to Keys to Change to enhance and expand services for individuals experiencing homelessness in Maricopa County.

New Grant Opportunity

The AbbVie Foundation and Matter are accepting applications for grants and technical assistance through their AbbVie Foundation Health Equity Accelerator. Up to five community-based organizations across the United States will receive a stipend of $10,000 to participate in the 8-week program to develop new approaches to health equity for marginalized communities, and one group will be awarded an unrestricted grant of $50,000 to put their ideas into action. Applications are due October 27.

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