City Year Receives $13 Million for 8th-Grade Graduation Program (Grants Roundup)

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave $12.7 million to City Year, which, in partnership with the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education, aims to help students complete eighth grade and stay on track to graduate from high school. Photo by Elliot Haney

January 8, 2020 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$12.7 million over five years to City Year, in partnership with the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education, to help students, particularly students of color and those from low-income families, complete eighth grade and stay on track to graduate from high school.

Wells Fargo & Company

$10.7 million to Habitat for Humanity to bolster local affiliates and to continue support for its Capable program, which is designed to combine home repairs with nursing and occupational-therapy services.

Ford Foundation

$10 million to the Henry Ford to pay for free field trips for all 4th- and 5th-grade students from Detroit public schools, and to improve accessibility by creating sensory-friendly tours, capital improvements, and new programs at the museum.

DeKalb Health Foundation and Parkview Health

$3 million to the Community Foundation DeKalb County to establish the DeKalb Memorial Hospital Fund, which will make general health and wellness grants in Indiana.

Prudential Financial

$1.5 million to SaverLife to expand a pilot program that helps families build savings accounts through their employers, credit unions, and community-based organizations.

Carnegie Corporation of New York

$1 million to Morehouse College for a faculty-development program and to recruit top professors to the historically black men’s college.

Edelman Financial Engines

$1 million to produce a documentary that focuses on Dean Ornish’s clinical trials and research on Alzheimer’s disease.

New Grant Opportunity

The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation has committed to award $2.5 million in grants through Project Innovation, which will give grants to nonprofit groups that foster storytelling, a culture of inclusion, youth education, or community engagement. Organizations must have an annual operating budget of more than $100,000 and be located within the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Hartford, Los Angeles, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, or Washington, D.C. The deadline for applications is February 14.

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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.

About the Author

M.J. Prest

Senior Editor, Solutions

M.J. Prest is senior editor for solutions at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where she highlights how nonprofit leaders navigate and overcome major challenges. She has covered stories on big gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Slate.com, and the Huffington Post, and she wrote the young-adult novel Immersion. M.J. graduated from Williams College and after living in many different places, she settled in New England with her husband, two kids, and two rescue dogs.