Starbucks Pours $100 Million Into Community Resilience Fund

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Starbucks

$100 million over four years to create the Starbucks Community Resilience Fund, which will support small businesses and community-development projects in U.S. neighborhoods where Black, Indigenous, and people of color live. As part of this commitment, the coffee company is also partnering with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to share the museum’s educational resources through the Starbucks mobile app.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$72 million to 16 grantees through its Just Futures Initiative. Each grantee is receiving up to $5 million over three years for multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative teams of humanities scholars to increase public understanding of racism throughout U.S. history and advance social justice going forward.

Apple and Southern Company Foundation

$50 million to create the Propel Center, an innovation and learning hub in Atlanta for students at historically Black colleges and universities. The technology giant and the utility company’s foundation are each giving $25 million to the center.

Netflix

$25 million to Enterprise Community Partners for Equitable Path Forward, its program that aims to dismantle systemic racism in real-estate development and ownership.

Enterprise Community Partners

$10 million to 10 municipalities and counties in its New York State Anti-Displacement Learning Network for its efforts to keep communities intact and enable residents to ride out the Covid-19 financial crisis and remain in their homes. Each of the following cities and counties in New York will receive $1 million: Broome County; City of Buffalo; City of Elmira; City of Hudson; City of Ithaca; City of Kingston; City of Newburgh; City of Rochester; City of Syracuse; and New York City.

Exact Sciences

$10 million to Stand Up to Cancer for a campaign to improve colorectal cancer screening, early detection, and prevention across the United States and to back researchers who are focusing on the disease.

Sunderland Foundation

$5 million to the Metropolitan Community College Foundation to support the construction of three academic facilities: the Engineering Technology building, which is expected to be completed in July; the Blue River East building, scheduled to open in the fall; and the Advanced Skills Institute, which is being renovated.

Carestar Foundation

$4.3 million to organizations, projects, and programs that improve emergency response across California. Among the grants was $1.5 million to the California Emergency Medical Services Authority to enhance technology to help field responders and emergency departments share critical health information.

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

$4.2 million through its Community Grants Program to provide general operating support to 88 nonprofit groups that offer human and social services to state residents.

Lilly Endowment

$3 million to the United Service Organizations for its Combat Covid-19 Initiative, which will provide financial relief for military service members and their families who are facing economic hardship during the pandemic.

(The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)

Sony Corporation

$1.7 million to the International African American Museum for technology at this new museum, which is scheduled to open in 2022 in Charleston, S.C.

New Grant Opportunity

The Andrew Family Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for grants to nonprofit organizations that work in poor communities and protect and preserve the environment. At least one grant of $600,000 over three years will be awarded. Preference will be given to programs where the foundation’s two priorities intersect and to organizations that have the potential for expansion with data-driven outcomes. Eligible nonprofit groups must have an annual budget between $1 million and $4 million. Programs that work in public policy or provide funding for endowments or capital grants are not eligible. Letters of inquiry are due March 15. Those invited to apply must submit full proposals before May 1.

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