Salesforce Gives $20 Million to Boost Distance Learning for Low Income Students (Grants Roundup)

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Kaiser Permanente

$63 million to the Public Health Institute’s Tracing Health program through the State of California to support Covid-19 contract tracing via community-based organizations, primarily in California’s Central Valley. The grant will also provide services and other support to people who are not able to isolate or quarantine. The program has also received a total of $18.8 million from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Ballmer Group, the James Irvine Foundation, the California Wellness Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, the Sierra Health Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, the California Health Care Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the California Endowment, and the Skoll Foundation.

Simons Foundation

$35.5 million over 10 years to the University of California at Berkeley to continue research at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. The foundation created the institute with a grant of $60 million in 2012.

Publix Super Market Charities

$25 million to United Way Worldwide to be distributed to local United Way affiliates in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. The money will support efforts to improve the health and wellness of individuals, early education, and financial stability in the areas where the grocery store chain does business.

Salesforce

$20 million to school districts in Chicago, Indianapolis, New York, Oakland, and San Francisco to support distance learning and make virtual education more equitable for students from low-income families.

Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties

$10 million over 10 years to address racial equity and social justice issues in New York’s Herkimer and Oneida Counties.

Direct Relief

$10 million to the Covid-19 Action Fund for Africa, in partnership with Ministries of Health, to purchase personal protective equipment for up to 1 million community-health workers in Africa.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$10 million to the City University of New York to develop and expand a range of programs related to the Covid-19 crisis and bolster its efforts to advance social and racial justice across its 25 campuses.

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research

$8.5 million to visualize a key protein in the brains of people living with Parkinson’s disease. The grant will be shared among three recipients: AC Immune, in Switzerland; Mass General Brigham, in Boston; and Merck, in Kenilworth, N.J.

Walmart Foundation

$4.4 million to the National Council on Aging to connect more than 1 million older adults with food insecurity to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Hispanic Federation

$3.6 million in emergency grants to 173 frontline organizations that are supporting some of the communities most affected by the Covid-19 crisis in Puerto Rico and the mainland United States.

#StartSmall

$3 million to the Ms. Foundation for Women to support organizations led by women and girls of color as they contend with the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and Square, created #StartSmall as an LLC with a $1 billion pledge earlier this year.

Battelle

$2.2 million to the Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation for the Young Minds programs and services at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Ohio.

Annenberg Foundation

$1 million to the Library of Congress to redesign its photography-exhibition spaces. The foundation is also donating 1,000 photographic prints by 250 contemporary photographers from its Annenberg Space for Photography collection.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

$1 million to nine nonprofit groups that are developing educational content for students and professional-learning experiences for teachers as more U.S. schools and districts move to online learning for the start of the academic year.

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