Schmidt Sciences Awards $47.3 Million for Feedstock Research

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bloomberg Philanthropies

$605 million to augment the endowments of the four historically Black medical schools in the United States, and to establish a new medical school in New Orleans.

Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, and Morehouse School of Medicine will each receive $175 million. Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science has received $75 million. The final $5 million will help create the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine.

Read more about the Bloomberg grants in the Chronicle.

Schmidt Sciences

$47.3 million to establish the Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future with the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research and support research to convert industrial byproducts into energy, animal feed, and other useful materials.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

$22.8 million across 27 grants to protect grassland habitat while strengthening livestock ranching in the Northern Great Plains.

The grants came from a fund supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bezos Earth Fund, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, Burger King, Capri Holdings Ltd, Cargill, Marathon Oil, Nestlé, Oxy, and Sysco.

Overdeck Family Foundation

$14 million to 34 educational organizations that support early literacy, math fluency, language development, and tutoring for students in need.

The largest grant of $5 million over three years went to the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund to expand its tech-enabled blended literacy models for students from kindergarten through eighth grade in New York City.

Shimano

$10 million over 10 years through its new Trail Born Fund, which will make grants to build new mountain-bike trails and increase access to cycling trail networks around the world.

Cigna Group Foundation

$9 million over three years through the Cigna Group Health Equity Impact Fund, which will make grants to reduce health disparities that predominantly affect residents of Houston and Hartford, Conn.

Blue Meridian Partners, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and Strada Education Foundation

$5 million to America Achieves to plan and establish its Good Jobs Economy program, which will strengthen economic growth and opportunity at the community level.

The grants to back the program are coming in addition to a $15 million gift from MacKenzie Scott, the novelist who helped create Amazon with her former husband Jeff Bezos.

Weingart Foundation

$3.9 million to 28 nonprofit groups that are advancing equity and racial justice in immigration, housing, and economic opportunity in Southern California.

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

$3.3 million to 69 arts organizations through its 2024 Frankenthaler Climate Initiative grant program to help visual-art institutions improve their energy efficiency and convert to using clean energy in their facilities.

Quantum Foundation

$1.8 million to 26 nonprofit groups to strengthen community development and address social determinants of health for residents of Florida’s Palm Beach County.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

$1 million to the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation toward its $75 million fundraising campaign to build a monument in Washington to commemorate the right of women to vote.

SECU Foundation

$1 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Government to continue its post-graduate fellowship program that places fellows in paid local government positions.

New Grant Opportunity

The Dan David Prize is now accepting nominations from early- and midcareer researchers of history, archaeology, art history, digital humanities, and human paleontology, as well as independent scholars, public historians, museum curators, and documentary filmmakers. Each of the nine winners will receive $300,000 in recognition of their academic achievements to date and to support their future work. Nominations are due September 30.

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