Grants Roundup: Microsoft Gives $25.8 Million for Markle Fund Jobs Program

Students work in a manufacturing laboratory at Emily Griffith Technical College in Denver as part of the Markle Foundation’s Skillful program, a job-training venture that has received major backing from Microsoft. Markle Foundation

July 5, 2017 | Read Time: 1 minute

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Microsoft Philanthropies

$25.8 million to Skillful, a program of the Markle Foundation that helps job seekers develop skills that are in high demand. The Markle Foundation has pulled many nonprofit, business, and academic leaders into a cohort called Rework America to tackle problems economic change poses for American workers.

Taube Philanthropies

$5 million to the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv for renovations.

Terra Foundation for American Art

$2.5 million to 31 organizations developing projects for Art Design Chicago, a yearlong cultural program with multiple exhibitions. Recipients include the Chicago Parks Foundation, the South Side Community Art Center, and the Video Game Art Gallery.

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Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly said the Terra Foundation for American Art’s grant round supported 21 organizations, not 31.