Gates Foundation Commits Additional $250 Million for Covid-19 Tests, Vaccines, and Treatments
Also, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation gave $228 million in emergency financial support to groups working in the arts and culture, humanities, and higher education, and Johnson & Johnson has pledged $100 million to address health equity for people of color.
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Bank of America Commits $25M to Colleges to Improve Job Skills for Blacks and Latinos
Also, McDonald’s has committed $100 million to Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Citi Foundation is giving $15 million to support 30 community-development financial institutions.
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Jeff Bezos’s Earth Fund Awards $791 Million in First Round of Climate Grants
Also, the Gates Foundation is giving $70 million to develop safe, low-cost Covid-19 vaccine candidates, and the Heinz Endowments has doled out $12.1 million for racial-equity programs in the Pittsburgh region.
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Rockefeller Foundation Shifts Priorities, Pledges $1 Billion for Covid-19 Recovery
Also, JPMorgan Chase has given $35 million to organizations in five U.S. cities for career-readiness programs, and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation granted $20 million for stuttering research and education.
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Flamboyan Arts Fund Commits $15 Million in Hamilton Proceeds to Puerto Rico
Also, the Jay Pritzker Foundation has awarded $100 million in financial assistance to students of California’s community colleges, and the Open Society Foundations committed $70 million in additional Covid-19 relief.
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Mellon Foundation Commits $250 Million to Its Monuments Project (Grants Roundup)
Also, the Ford Foundation and a consortium of other funders pledge at least $156 million for arts groups led by people of color.
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Lilly Endowment Splits $62 Million Among Every College and University in Indiana (Grants Roundup)
Also, the bank Truist has given $40 million to create a new fund that will support nonprofit community development financial institutions, and the Grainger Foundation has committed $32 million to the U. of Wisconsin at Madison’s College of Engineering.
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Citi Foundation Will Spend Another $100 Million on Jobs Program (Grants Roundup)
Also, 3M commits $50 million to advance racial equity in Minnesota and beyond, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation distributed $24 million in emergency grants to 12 midsize arts museums.
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Bank of America Awards $50 Million for Racial Equity in Economic Opportunity (Grants Roundup)
Also, the Alfred Landecker Foundation has given $13 million to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for academic studies of the Holocaust, and the Fidelity Charitable Trustees’ Initiative awarded $12.7 million to help organizations serving nonprofits and donors navigate the pandemic and other challenges.
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We Need Organized Philanthropy — Not Just Charity — to Create Real Change
This year will no doubt go down as a year of unparalleled change in how people live, work, and interact.
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Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation Commits $50 Million for Social Justice (Grants Roundup)
Also, the Koret Foundation has granted $10 million to continue scholarships for underrepresented college students in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is giving $1 million to neighborhood-revitalization projects in Flint, Mich.
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$12 Billion Pledged Worldwide to Fight Covid-19 in First Half of 2020
However, the report by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Candid found relatively little funding earmarked for women, people of color, people with disabilities, and other historically disadvantaged groups.
By Michael Theis
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USAA Provides $30 Million to Help Military Families (Grants Roundup)
Also, the Gates Foundation has granted $23 million to three college-attainment groups, and a sports company has pledged $20 million to combat systemic racism.
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Salesforce Gives $20 Million to Boost Distance Learning for Low Income Students (Grants Roundup)
Also, a coalition of 12 grant makers have pooled $81.8 million to expand Covid-19 contract tracing in California.
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Mastercard Foundation Pledges $200 Million to Its Young Africa Works Program (Grants Roundup)
Also, the Southern Poverty Law Center has committed $30 million to voter outreach, and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded its annual Humanitarian Prize to an organization that helps former gang members.
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California Endowment Pledges $225 Million for Black-Led Activism (Grants Roundup)
Also, Robin Hood has made $35.5 million in grants to frontline charities addressing the pandemic in New York, and Lowe’s gave $25 million to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to support small businesses in rural areas.
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