IKEA Foundation Pledges $25 Million to Cut Greenhouse Gases From Cooling Appliances

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

IKEA Foundation

$25 million over four years to the Clean Cooling Collaborative for its efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from cooling and improve the efficiency of cooling appliances like air conditioners and refrigerators.

MetLife Foundation

$25 million through its first round of giving from its 2030 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Commitments, which will make $150 million in grants to support historically marginalized individuals and their families by 2030.

Grantees in this round include Digitalundivided, Girls Who Code, Living Cities, the National Disability Institute, the Planet Water Foundation, Village Capital, Vision to Learn, and Women’s World Banking, among others.

PetSmart Charities

$15 million commitment to support veterinary organizations and community groups that expand access to veterinary care for pets in need throughout the United States.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$6.3 million to the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for its Mission: Lifeline Stroke program to strengthen patient care in rural areas of Iowa for people who have experienced strokes.

Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation

$5 million to Marian University to support career preparation for Black and Latino engineering students through its E.S. Witchger School of Engineering.

Truist Foundation

$5 million to First Step Staffing, a nonprofit employment agency that serves people who have recently experienced homelessness or other barriers to employment.

The grant will establish two new branch locations in the United States and enhance a client-services program that includes housing placement with financial assistance and additional opportunities for job-skills training.

Walmart Foundation

$4 million to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank toward its capital campaign.

American Journalism Project

$3.2 million to Verité, ICT (which was previously known as Indian Country Today), and The City to support organizational growth at these local nonprofit news groups.

New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund

$3 million to 54 nonprofit organizations that are led by or serve Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities in Massachusetts and address extreme disparities and systemic inequities.

Recipients were awarded grants ranging between $10,000 and $150,000 in this round of giving.

Bush Foundation

$2.5 million to Makoce Agriculture Development to create an Indigenous-led food system on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Pivot Fund

$2 million to seven news organizations that reach Black, Hispanic, and Asian American audiences in Georgia.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

$1 million to five community-based nonprofit groups that are working to alleviate poverty among older adults and expand access to food, health care, housing, and supportive in-home care.

W.M. Keck Foundation

$1 million over three years to Weill Cornell Medicine to develop an atomic-force microscope, which can scan the surface of a protein and help researchers study the effects of pharmaceutical drugs on proteins.

New Grant Opportunity

The Pillars Fund is accepting proposals for grants through its Catalyze Fund to amplify social change led by American Muslims. Nonprofit organizations throughout the United States can apply for one-year grants worth at least $25,000 to strengthen the public safety, mental health and wellness, and civic engagement of Muslims in the United States. Proposals are due September 1.

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