St. George Corporation Gives $51 Million to Northwestern Medicine for a New Cancer Institute

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

St. George Corporation

$51 million to Northwestern Medicine to develop a new cancer institute in Orland Park, a suburb of Chicago.

Kansas Health Foundation

$30 million over 10 years through its Building Power and Equity Partnership to support 30 grass-roots organizations to advance racial equity in health throughout Kansas.

Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation

$17 million to Driscoll Children’s Hospital to recruit pediatric specialists and improve access to specialized health care for children and families in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley.

F.M. Kirby Foundation

$15.4 million to 255 grantees for community-development programs.

Roughly half of the grants were for general operating support.

Airbnb

$10 million to more than 120 nonprofit groups through its Airbnb Community Fund.

The recipients work to advance environmental sustainability, economic development, protections from abuse and exploitation, mental health, and safe housing worldwide.

Doris Duke Foundation

$6 million to three organizations to amplify the work of Muslim filmmakers in the United States.

The largest grant of $4.5 million over three years went to the Center for Asian American Media to create the U.S. Muslim Documentary Fund.

Charter Communications

$2.5 million over five years through its Spectrum Employee Community Grants program, which will award cash grants worth up to $10,000 each to local social-services organizations where the telecommunications company’s employees volunteer.

Tepper Foundation

$2.5 million through its Security Fund to increase protections for Jewish people at colleges, community centers, synagogues, Jewish federations, and other community organizations, particularly when Jewish children are in attendance.

The largest grant of $500,000 went to Hillel International to strengthen security on college campuses.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$2.2 million to Sightsavers to eliminate the blinding eye disease trachoma in Zambia.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation

$1.8 million for 17 projects to advance community-based mental-health and racial-health equity.

Coca-Cola Foundation

$1 million to Water Mission for a two-year program to improve access to clean water for 53,000 people in Uganda and Tanzania.

Dohmen Company Foundation

$1 million to FoodCorps to back its Nourishing Future Initiative, which aims to expand nutrition education and access to healthy meals in school for all 50 million schoolchildren in the United States by 2030.

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

$1 million to seed its Tribal Nations Program, which will make grants to build low-cost housing for Native American communities.

Mellon Foundation

$1 million to Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe for an exhibition on the work of the Indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson during the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

New Grant Opportunity

The Citi Foundation is accepting proposals for its Global Innovation Challenge for $25 million in grants to develop and promote solutions to address homelessness. In its second round, the foundation will award grants of $500,000 each to 50 organizations to create or promote low-cost, stable housing for individuals, families, and communities. Applicants must register by February 13.

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