Veterans Groups Receive Grants for Housing, Oral Health, and Arts Programs

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas

$78.9 million through its Affordable Housing Program to build 3,571 housing units across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Texas.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$12.5 million to the University of Manitoba to expand its Institute for Global Public Health’s research and family-planning programs in parts of the world where women lack access to reproductive health care.

Ford Foundation

$10 million to the Studio Museum in Harlem to endow the salary of its director and chief curator.

The Ford Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.

Home Depot Foundation

$10 million to help U.S. military veterans age in place and avoid homelessness by creating low-cost housing and making repairs and accessibility upgrades to homes owned by low-income veterans.

The grants are going to the Coalition for Responsible Community Development, the Gary Sinise Foundation, the Housing Assistance Council, Operation Homefront, Semper Fi and America’s Fund, and U.S.VETS, among other organizations.

Healthy Communities Foundation

$7 million to 78 nonprofit organizations to advance health equity across Chicago’s South and West sides and the western Cook County suburbs of Illinois.

The grants are for general operating support.

Griffin Family Trust

$6.6 million to Wake Forest University to strengthen graduate-level theological education at its School of Divinity.

Wells Fargo

$6.4 million through its Invest Native Initiative to 33 grantees to bolster housing access and affordability, small-business growth, financial health, and sustainability in Indigenous communities.

The recipients are in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

Whitaker Family Foundation

$5 million to Arkansas Children’s to expand access to pediatric health care and education in northwest Arkansas.

Kahlert Foundation

$2.5 million to McDaniel College to back its nursing program.

OneOhio Recovery Foundation

$1.7 million to seven recipients for their services in substance-abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts across Ohio.

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health

$1.25 million to 10 organizations that improve access to dentistry and oral health care for veterans and active-duty military members and their families.

Robert R. McCormick Foundation

$1 million to the National Museum of Mexican Art to convert a decommissioned fire station in Chicago into a community center that will house arts programs.

New Grant Opportunity

The Mid-America Arts Alliance, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, is accepting applications for the Creative Forces Community Engagement grant program, part of the Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network. Matching grants worth between $10,000 and $50,000 each will support nonclinical, community-based arts programs for U.S. military servicemembers, veterans, and their families and caregivers who have experienced trauma. Partnerships among arts organizations and veteran and military service organizations are encouraged. Applications are due January 15.

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