Syracuse U. Gets $75 Million From the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation

$75 million pledge to Syracuse University to support the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Newhouse, who died in 1979, was the billionaire founder of Advance Publications, which owns a variety of publishing and broadcasting companies including the Discovery Channel, Reddit, and Condé Nast. He established the communications school with a $15 million gift in 1962.

Foundation of Caring

$8 million to Children’s Hospital of Orange County, in California, to develop new therapies for Pompe disease, a rare lysosomal storage disease that causes life-threatening heart failure and muscle weakness in affected babies.

Edward W. Hazen Foundation

$5.5 million to 18 organizations and four coalitions working to support communities of color in securing educational equity and racial justice. The grants come as the foundation begins spending down its $20 million in assets by 2025.

Ralph T. and Esther L. Warburton Foundation

$3 million pledge to Case Western Reserve University for medical, dental, and nursing scholarships.

Bill and Ida Hester Foundation

$2.6 million to the Oaks-Mission School for repairs and upgrades at this rural school in Oaks, Okla., including a new roof for the gymnasium, new HVAC systems, new LED lighting, a security-camera system, lighting for the football field, and four new school buses. The gift also will establish a scholarship fund that provides graduates with up to $1,500 each for college.

Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation

$2 million matching grant to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan to provide programs and services to nearly 13,000 youths, ages 6 to 18, each year in Detroit.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$1.7 million to the Women’s Funding Network to establish a cohort of 10 women’s foundations that work to increase economic mobility in their communities.

PVH Corp.

$1 million to Fordham University to establish an academic hub for the study of corporate responsibility and sustainability at the Gabelli School of Business.

Truist Foundation

$1 million to edX to establish the MicroBachelors program, a low-cost program that allows adults without college degrees to complete coursework online. The Truist Foundation was formerly known as the SunTrust Foundation.

New Grant Opportunity

The Center at Sierra Health Foundation, in partnership with the California Department of Health Care Services, will disburse $20 million in grants through the Youth Substance Use Disorder Prevention Program. Community-based and tribal organizations in California are eligible to apply for multiyear grants worth up to $1 million each to develop or expand substance-abuse prevention efforts that are focused on youths and early intervention. The organizations must work with young people ages 12 to 26 years old and in urban and rural areas of the state, particularly within minority communities that have been disproportionately affected by the war on drugs. Funding for the program comes from tax revenue created by the sales of legal adult-use cannabis in California. Applications are due February 6.

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M.J. Prest has been writing about major gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Email M.J.