Gates Foundation Commits $310 Million to Help Farmers Prepare for Climate Change (Grants Roundup)

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

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October 2, 2019 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$310 million over three years to the CGIAR, formerly known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, to help 300 million small-scale farmers prepare for climate changes that will affect their crops.

Lilly Endowment

$40 million to the Purdue Research Foundation to create the Engineering and Polytechnic Gateway Complex at Purdue University.

Four Alaskan Grant Makers

$40 million to Anchored Home to develop new solutions to homelessness in the state. The grants include $15 million over five years from Providence Health & Services Alaska, $10 million over three years from the Rasmuson Foundation, $10 million over five years from Weidner Apartment Homes, and $5 million over three years from Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska.

Open Society Foundations

$15 million to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in recognition of its 80th anniversary.

LEGO Foundation

$12.5 million to Education Cannot Wait to deliver early-childhood education to refugee and displaced children.

Denver Foundation

$8.4 million to 16 grantees that are working to increase access to behavioral-health care throughout Colorado.

Blackstone Charitable Foundation

$5 million to the University of California system to expand a network of business mentors that counsel student entrepreneurs at nearly all the universities in the system.

Propel Capital

$3.5 million to Vassar College and Smith College for a program to inspire liberal-arts students to pursue careers in education and expand programs that work in urban public schools. Vassar received $2.25 million, and Smith has been awarded $1.25 million in honor of Dan Mindich, a high-school teacher who died in 2014 during a swimming competition in Hawaii at age 48.

Moody Foundation

$1.5 million to Comp-U-Dopt for a five-year program to buy computers for low-income youths in Galveston, Tex.

Barr Foundation

$1 million to Greater Worcester Community Foundation to bolster arts, culture, and creativity in central Massachusetts.

New Grant Opportunity

The Gerber Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry regarding grants worth up to $350,000 each over three years for research on pediatric health, pediatric nutrition, and the effects of environmental hazards on children under the age of 3. Concept papers are due November 15.

Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.

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.