Southern Methodist U. Gets $30 Million for Data Science and Engineering

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Open Society Foundations

$107 million over seven years to establish the Roma Foundation for Europe, which will work to bolster support and empowerment of Europe’s historically marginalized Roma communities.

O’Donnell Foundation

$30 million to Southern Methodist University to name and endow the university’s data-science institute and strengthen engineering programs.

Peter O’Donnell Jr., who died in 2021, was a securities investor in Dallas. His wife, Edith Jones O’Donnell, died in 2020.

AltaMed Health Services Corporation

$15 million commitment to the University of La Verne toward construction costs of a facility that will house its College of Health and Community Well-Being.

The building will be named for Cástulo de la Rocha, AltaMed’s president and CEO.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

$10 million to Unicef to strengthen health systems that provide maternal and infant care to vulnerable women and children in the Central African Republic, Haiti, Mali, and Mozambique.

Houston Endowment

$8 million to Houston Parks Board and Trees for Houston for efforts to plant more trees in city parks and reduce the urban “heat island” effect in communities that don’t have adequate tree cover.

Home Depot Foundation

$6 million to continue its Path to Pro program, which the foundation established in 2018 with a $50 million commitment to expand skilled-trades training across the construction industry.

The new grant will create an entrepreneurship program and provide free training in the skilled trades and scholarships for more veterans, military families, high-school students, and members of the military who are leaving active service.

de Beaumont and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$5 million to four organizations in Arizona, Maryland, Oregon, and Pennsylvania through Modernized Anti-Racist Data Ecosystems for Health Justice, a new program to advance racial justice and health equity.

The recipients, each of which will partner with other community-based organizations in their metropolitan areas, are the Baltimore City Youth Data Hub, Community Data for Health and Environmental Justice, Data Justice for Pittsburgh’s Black Neighborhoods, and Promoting Indigenous Models of Assessment.

PPG and the PPG Foundation

$5 million commitment to make grants for environmental sustainability education before 2030.

Among the grantees already announced are the National Environmental Education Foundation and National Energy Education Development in the United States, STEM Learning in the United Kingdom, and Junior Achievement in Brazil.

Froedtert Health

$4.7 million to Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers to expand its clinic, pharmacy, and mental-health services.

The new facility in Milwaukee is expected to open in the fall of 2024.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation

$2.6 million to more than 600 schools, libraries, and nonprofit organizations to buy books, technology, equipment, or materials that support literacy and foster a love of reading among students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Cleveland Foundation

$1.4 million through its Cleveland Black Futures Fund to 36 organizations that have Black leaders and serve Black people in the city.

Giant Company

$1 million to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to expand its Food Pharmacy program, which enables families that are experiencing food insecurity to place online orders for nutritious food and have it delivered.

The grocery retailer’s grant will also support an in-person food pantry at the hospital’s facility in Norristown, Pa.

J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation

$1 million to Howard Payne University to endow a scholarship fund for students from Texas or surrounding states.

Walmart Foundation

$1 million to Big Thought to back its programs to boost job skills, mental well-being, and social-emotional development for Black young people in Dallas.

The grant was made through the Walmart.org Center for Racial Equity.

New Grant Opportunity

The Cotton On Foundation and the Born This Way Foundation are accepting nominations for $1.5 million in grants through their Kindness in Community Fund, which will make grants worth up to $150,000 each to 10 nonprofit groups that promote mental health for young people around the world. The program invites young people to nominate the local nonprofit groups that are active in their communities in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Nominations are due October 10.

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