Google Awards $50 Million for Public-Health Campaigns About Covid-19 Vaccines
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
February 3, 2021 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
$50 million to public-health agencies for campaigns to reach underserved communities with science-backed information about Covid-19 vaccines and where to get them, as well as $100 million in ad credit. Google.org is also giving $5 million to organizations that include Morehouse School of Medicine’s Satcher Health Leadership Institute and the CDC Foundation to improve racial and geographic equity in distributing Covid-19 vaccinations.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$15 million to the Library of Congress for Of the People: Widening the Path, a new multiyear program to upgrade technology, expand its collections, and offer more internship and fellowship opportunities to help the library connect with Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, and other ethnic and racial minority communities.
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation
$14.3 million to 16 nonprofit organizations, including $5 million to the American Heart Association’s Bernard J. Tyson Impact Fund to make affordable and healthy food more readily available in communities of color in Atlanta and Chicago. The grants come in the first round of giving of the retail giant’s pledge of $100 million over five years to create the Walmart.org Center for Racial Equity, which will make grants to address systemic racism in the United States.
Siemens Foundation and Northern Trust
$10 million commitment to the Enterprise Community Loan Fund and Primary Care Development Corporation. The recipients are both nonprofit community-development financial institutions that provide low-cost loans to support racial and social equity and bolster economic opportunity and development in low-income and racially diverse communities.
Powder Mill Foundation
$7.1 million to York College of Pennsylvania to create a major in environmental horticulture, beginning in the fall.
Corning Inc.
$5.5 million to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University for programs to prepare students for careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and education.
Gilead Sciences
$3.2 million over two years to the Human Rights Campaign for efforts to end the HIV epidemic and support communities disproportionately affected by the virus in the United States, particularly communities of color, and support its Transgender Justice Initiative.
Lumina Foundation
$3.2 million through its Racial Justice and Equity Fund to 11 organizations that are working to combat systemic racism.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$3 million to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to improve diagnostic tests for two types of tropical parasitic-worm infections.
A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation
$1.5 million to the Headstrong Project to expand mental health care services that are offered to U.S. military veterans and their families.
Lilly Endowment
$1.5 million to the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology to expand its AskRose Homework Help program, a free tutoring service in math and science that matches the university’s students with middle- and high-school students.
(The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
$1.4 million in additional grant making to address needs related to the impact of the Covid-19 on residents of Washington State, including food security, child care, and stability for communities.
Sunderland Foundation
$1 million to Baker University for its capital campaign to improve its athletics facilities.
Truist Foundation
$1 million to Trident Technical College to create the Truist Transportation and Logistics Center.
New Grant Opportunity
The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation is seeking proposals for grants through two programs: its 2021 Hillman Emergent Innovation Program and the Hillman Serious Illness and End of Life Emergent Innovation Program. The foundation will award grants worth $50,000 each to projects that address unmet nursing needs for vulnerable populations including Black, Indigenous, and people of color, economically disadvantaged people, the LGBTQ community, people experiencing homelessness, and rural populations. Applications are due March 2.
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