Google.org Gives $35 Million to Create Economic Opportunities for Veterans and Women

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Hershey Trust Company

$350 million through the Milton Hershey School Trust to the Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning. The grant will pay to open six new schools for children from birth to age 5 who come from low-income families and disadvantaged backgrounds. The first school, located on the campus of the Milton Hershey School, in Hershey, Pa., is expected to finish construction in 2023.

Students will attend for free and the schools will also offer a Family Resource Center to provide parenting information, housing services, health-care referrals, and job training for parents.

Bloomberg Philanthropies

$120 million over five years to its Opioids Overdose Prevention Initiative to reduce the abuse of opioids and deaths from overdose in Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.

The grant maker has committed $170 million to opioid-overdose prevention since it created the program in 2018.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$50 million for its Grand Challenges Global Call to Action, a 10-year program that will support science and research, particularly from women principal investigators, in low- and middle-income countries.

Silicon Schools Fund

$45 million to create its Opportunity Fund, which will make grants over five years to improve schools throughout California in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Google.org

$25 million to 34 recipients through its Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls to back economic opportunities for women and girls worldwide.

The tech giant is also giving $10 million to Hiring Our Heroes to start its Career Forward program, which will help veterans and members of the military community develop job skills and receive career support outside of the service. Google will additionally provide $10 million in ad credit to veteran-serving organizations to help them connect with military families who use Google to search for services.

Multiple Grant Makers

$16 million to EducationSuperHighway for its efforts to expand broadband internet access to 18 million households with students in kindergarten through 12th grade who can’t afford internet plans at home.

The participating grant makers include Emerson Collective, Blue Meridian Partners, Ken Griffin through Citadel and Citadel Securities, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Zoom Cares Fund.

Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh

$16 million to Carnegie Mellon University for efforts to fund a scholarship program that also offers leadership, mentorship, and coaching opportunities for students from underrepresented backgrounds. The grant will also endow the dean’s chair for its university libraries and support construction costs toward its new Health, Wellness, and Athletics Center.

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

$10 million to 12 recipients in Georgia and the Southeast that help voters participate in elections and safeguard the right to vote.

The grants mark the first round of giving through the foundation’s new democracy program area.

CVS Health

$10 million over three years to the American Diabetes Association to improve access to resources and health care to prevent diabetes or help people manage the illness, particularly in Black communities.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$3 million to Salem State University to create the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, an effort to amplify the voices and stories of underrepresented populations.

Mat-Su Health Foundation

$2 million to 17 nonprofit organizations in Alaska to provide unrestricted grant support for unplanned expenses and lost revenue related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Open Society Foundations

$1.3 million to support organizations that are aiding Haitian and Black migrants who were detained or deported while seeking asylum at the U.S. southern border this fall.

The recipients include the Haitian Bridge Alliance, the UndocuBlack Network, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project.

Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation

$1.2 million to two organizations to address racial inequities in health care.

Community of Hope will use its share to improve access to postpartum care for people of color who have recently given birth. The University of Texas at Austin will work with researchers from tribal communities to examine the effects of historical trauma and discrimination on the mental health of Native American youths.

Quantum Foundation

$1 million in unrestricted grants to 120 grassroots organizations in Florida’s Palm Beach County that address critical needs in their communities, including meals, hygiene products, rent and utility assistance, clothing, and transportation.

New Grant Opportunities

Honda and the Honda USA Foundation are accepting applications for grants from U.S. nonprofit organizations. Grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 will be awarded in the areas of upgrading technology for community organizations; expanding opportunities for young people with disabilities or mental illness; reducing carbon emissions and making a nonprofit group’s operations more energy efficient; bolstering environmental programs for youths; and raising awareness about traffic safety for children and young drivers. Applications are due November 30.

The Mid-America Arts Alliance is accepting proposals for grants from its Creative Forces Community Engagement program, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. This grant program will support experiences of art and art making to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military servicemembers and veterans, as well as their families and caregivers, who have been exposed to trauma. Approximately 35 matching grants from $10,000 to $50,000 each will be awarded to arts-based community-engagement projects that work with military communities. Applications are due December 1.

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