Scriven Fund Gives $82 Million to Improve Patient Care; the Norwegian Refugee Council Has Won the Hilton Humanitarian Prize

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Scriven Foundation

$82 million to the Bassett Medical Center to improve access to patient care for people living in the rural areas of central New York. The grant will also pay to recruit, train, and retain more health workers in the region.

St. David’s Foundation

$28 million to organizations throughout central Texas.

Among the grants is $3.4 million to Communities in Schools of Central Texas to strengthen its central office and training center and enhance integrated support for students.

Google

$20 million commitment to organizations that will expand computer-science education across the United States for more than 11 million students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the technology industry.

Recipients in this round include 4-H, CodePath in Chicago and Atlanta, the Computing Integrated Teacher Education project at the City University of New York, the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance, and the Hidden Genius Project.

Lendmark Financial Services

$10 million commitment to CURE Childhood Cancer to support targeted research on pediatric cancer and to boost cancer care for patients and their families.

The consumer-lending organization in Atlanta has given the nonprofit group $4.7 million toward the pledge to date and will donate the rest before 2025.

Luckyday Foundation

$9.6 million to the University of Southern Mississippi to support the Luckyday Scholars Program for graduates of high schools in Mississippi.

Lupus Research Alliance

$9 million to three international research teams as the recipients of its Global Team Science Award to advance personalized treatments for the chronic autoimmune disease lupus.

Bloomberg Philanthropies provided the funding for the award.

Rockefeller Foundation

$5.5 million to e-GUIDE and Atlas AI to use satellite data and machine-learning technologies to enhance economic development and climate resilience in sub-Saharan Africa.

Southern Poverty Law Center and Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

$4.6 million to 39 voter-outreach organizations across the Deep South as part of the two organizations’ Vote Your Voice grant-making partnership.

Home Depot Foundation

$3.7 million to the Home Builders Institute, Construction Ready, and SkillPointe Foundation to continue the Path to Pro program, which provides no-cost job training in the skilled trades to youths, high-school students, underserved communities, and former U.S. military service members.

Mellon Foundation

$3.5 million to the Rebuild Foundation, a Chicago organization created by the artist Theaster Gates, to establish the Mellon Archive Fellowship Program. The fellows will preserve and exhibit art and cultural artifacts from Chicago’s South Side neighborhood.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

$2.5 million to the Norwegian Refugee Council in recognition of its programs that help displaced people from more than 35 countries.

This organization is the winner of the foundation’s 2022 Humanitarian Prize.

Santander Holdings USA

$2.5 million over three years to City Year.

The commitment includes $1 million from Santander US to back its Whole School Whole Child program, which will provide academic tutoring, coaching, after-school activities, and other resources to students in New York, Boston, Miami, Philadelphia, and Providence, R.I. Another $1.5 million over three years from the Santander Consumer USA Foundation will support City Year Dallas.

Gambrell Foundation

$1.8 million to Johnson C. Smith University toward its $80 million campaign to support the Mayor’s Racial Equity Initiative, a public-private partnership that aims to strengthen racial equity, social justice, and economic opportunity and mobility in Charlotte, N.C.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$1 million to the CDC Foundation to support its Emergency Response Fund and its efforts to raise awareness of the monkeypox outbreak in the United States.

New Grant Opportunity

The Bush Foundation is accepting applications for its annual Bush Fellowship, which awards up to 24 unrestricted grants worth a maximum of $100,000 each to help leaders strengthen and develop their organizations. Applicants must currently live in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, or one of the 23 Native nations within that same geography. Applications are due September 29.

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