Hawaii Community Foundation’s Maui Strong Fund Receives Nearly $60 Million in Donations

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Hawaii Community Foundation

$60 million through its Maui Strong Fund to provide shelter, food, financial assistance, and other disaster-recovery services to people displaced during this month’s wildfires on Maui.

Among the first grants to the emergency-relief fund was $500,000 from the Omidyar ‘Ohana Fund, which is housed at the community foundation.

Gray Foundation

$25 million to seven research teams at five hospitals and universities to study new approaches for the prevention and early detection of breast cancer.

The recipients are based at Columbia University, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Mayo Clinic.

Toyota USA Foundation

$23.5 million commitment to schools in Alabama, Indiana, and Kentucky to prepare students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Indiana’s Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation, North Gibson School Corporation, Building Blocks, and Youth First Inc. will share up to $11.1 million in grants through the carmaker’s Driving Possibilities grant program. Alabama’s Huntsville City Schools will receive up to $6.7 million, and school districts in Kentucky’s Scott County and Fayette County and the Ignite Institute in northern Kentucky will split up to $5.7 million.

Otto Bremer Trust

$13.8 million to 195 grantees that are working to improve quality of life for residents of Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.

The Studio @ Blue Meridian

$10 million commitment to Communities In Schools to deliver its integrated student-support model within additional school districts across the country.

This school year, $6 million will pay to expand the work into six new school districts and reach 20,000 students in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.

Alsam Foundation

$8 million to the University of Montana Foundation to back the University of Montana’s L.S. Skaggs Institute for Health Innovation, a statewide hub for education, research, and outreach to improve health outcomes for state residents.

Walmart Foundation

$7 million to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to offer free admission for all museum visitors.

The grant will also continue operations and programs at the Momentary, the museum’s center for visual, performing, and culinary arts in Bentonville, Ark.

DSF Charitable Foundation

$5 million to the Brevard Zoo to help build a complex for the care of sea turtles at the forthcoming Aquarium and Conservation Center in Port Canaveral, Fla.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$4.6 million to Mirvie for a study of pregnant women in Cameroon, Ghana, and Zambia to use blood tests to predict and reduce the risk of preeclampsia, a potentially fatal childbirth complication.

H-E-B

$3 million to San Antonio Zoo for its multiyear effort to improve amenities, animal habitats, and gathering areas for visitors to the zoo.

The supermarket chain is also paying for free admission for teachers throughout August.

Lupus Research Alliance

$3 million over three years to the University of Colorado’s Anschutz School of Medicine to back research and develop better ways to diagnose and treat lupus nephritis in children.

The organization established its annual Global Team Science Award with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies in 2020.

Comcast NBCUniversal and NBCUniversal Local

$2.5 million to 81 nonprofit groups in unrestricted grant making to strengthen storytelling, youth education, and engagement within communities across the United States.

Bible in the Schools

$2 million to Tennessee’s Hamilton County Schools for an elective academic program in Bible studies.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

$2 million to eight Jewish nonprofit groups for organization-strengthening efforts.

Mellon Foundation

$2 million to the Kitchen to hire more staff and expand operations at this multidisciplinary art organization in New York.

Mat-Su Health Foundation

$1.2 million to 15 nonprofit organizations that support individual and community health in Alaska.

KLA Foundation

$1 million to four nonprofit groups through its KLA Education Equity Fund, which makes grants to expand access to quality education in historically marginalized communities in California and Oregon, where the semiconductor company does business.

The recipients are ELSO Inc., Pivotal Connections, Project Invent, and Urban Ed Academy.

Stupski Foundation

$1 million to the University of Hawai’i to establish a fund that will give emergency cash grants to students who have been affected by the wildfires in Maui.

New Grant Opportunity

TD Bank Group is accepting applications for grants from its 2023 TD Ready Challenge to support nonprofit and charitable organizations that address systemic barriers to affordable, transitional, or permanent housing in the United States and Canada. This year, the program will make 10 grants worth $1 million each. Applications are due September 13.

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