Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Awards $140 Million for Health Needs in New York State

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust

$300 million commitment to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to support its five-year plan to prepare for, prevent, and respond to future epidemics and pandemics, with a focus on resolving inequities that arose in the response to the Covid-19 crisis.

Each foundation pledged $150 million for the international effort.

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation

$140 million to more than 450 organizations and programs that are serving the health-related needs of the most vulnerable New York residents. The grants are in addition to $20 million that the foundation made to emergency Covid-19 programs throughout New York State in 2021.

Among the largest grants in this round was nearly $2 million to the Catholic Foundation for Brooklyn and Queens to provide more food to people in need through food pantries in its network and affiliate organizations.

James Irvine Foundation

$36 million through 28 grants in the foundation’s program areas of Better Careers, Fair Work, and Priority Communities.

Among the grants in this round was $4.2 million over three years to the National Domestic Workers Alliance to strengthen labor protections and professional opportunities for domestic and home-care workers in California.

Houston Endowment, Kinder Foundation, Arnold Ventures, and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$20 million to the American Journalism Project to establish an independent nonprofit newsroom in Houston that will provide subscription-free access to local news coverage.

Warner Music Group and the Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund

$9.4 million to 15 organizations to advance criminal-justice reform, education, and the arts and culture at the intersection of race and gender inequity and youth activism.

Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

$9.7 million to organizations that are working to make data more publicly accessible and develop systems to use inclusive tech, data, and artificial intelligence for the public good.

The largest grant of $2 million went to the United Nations Foundation to support UN Global Pulse, its effort to advance the Global Data Access Initiative.

Leon Lowenstein Foundation

$3 million to the Mobile Healthcare Association and Harvard University’s Mobile Health Map program to increase the reach of mobile health clinics and improve access to health care in underserved communities.

Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation

$3 million to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to offer free museum admission days for Cleveland residents and create a new center for community-oriented programs.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$2 million to the San Francisco Public Library and the American Library Association for a collaboration to improve access to library resources for incarcerated people.

Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation

$1.1 million to the LaGuardia Community College Foundation today to endow the Robert D. L. Gardiner–Joseph Shenker Student Scholars Program.

The program will send students from the community college to collaborate with historians and researchers at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives to study New York City history.

Carnegie Corporation of New York

$1 million to the Associated Press to create the AP Education Reporting Network, which will expand coverage of education issues in the United States and strengthen education reporting across the news industry.

Delta Dental of California

$1 million to the University of California at Los Angeles School of Dentistry to endow a new scholarship for four-year students who have overcome adversity and are interested in pursuing a career in dentistry in underserved communities.

Giant Company

$1 million to Harrisburg University of Science and Technology for its new Center for Advanced Agriculture and Sustainability, which will focus on making food and agriculture more environmentally sustainable and locally sourced.

Uber and Visa

$1 million to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to make grants to independent restaurants that are currently active on Uber Eats in 10 cities in the United States.

New Grant Opportunity

The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts is accepting letters of intent from health organizations to support one-year projects that address community health issues in the region. Organizations can apply for grants worth $60,000 to $120,000, and the foundation plans to make $850,000 in grants this year. Letters of intent are due April 28.

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