$205 Million to Go to Mental-Health and Infectious-Disease Research; Bezos Earth Fund Commits $50 Million for Marine Protection

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

$205 million to three institutions that are working in infectious disease and mental health.

The grants comprise $75 million to Rockefeller University’s SNF Institute for Infectious Disease Research, $75 million to Columbia University’s SNF Center for Precision Psychiatry and Mental Health, and $55 million to the Child Mind Institute’s SNF Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Bezos Earth Fund

$50 million to organizations working in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama to create marine-protection zones that aid carbon capture and safeguard ocean biodiversity.

The grants were announced at the U.N. Ocean Conference.

James Irvine Foundation

$36.5 million across 12 grants in its program areas of better careers, fair work, just prosperity, and priority communities.

The largest grant of $15 million over 27 months went to the Tides Center to strengthen worker-rights organizations across California.

Truist Financial Corporation

$35 million commitment to nonprofit groups that strengthen and support businesses owned by Black, Latino, and women entrepreneurs in the United States.

The bank is also providing $85 million in investment capital specifically for historically underrepresented entrepreneurs and small-business owners.

Google.org

$30 million commitment to its Impact Challenge on Climate Innovation, which will make grants to projects that use open data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to advance awareness of climate change and action.

Shell USA

$27.5 million to Louisiana State University to establish the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation and build an interdisciplinary science facility that will house classroom and lab space for the university’s departments in biological sciences, chemistry, geology and geophysics, mathematics and physics, and astronomy.

Petco Love

$15 million to animal-welfare nonprofit groups across the United States.

Mark Foundation for Cancer Research

$12 million to a research collaboration between Children’s National Hospital, in Washington, and University College London to develop novel immunotherapies for children with solid tumors. The foundation made the grant through Cancer Grand Challenges, its partnership with Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Institute to make grants to international research teams.

In addition, the foundation directed $6 million to Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy for research, including a study of cancer patients who respond well to immunotherapy treatments. The Bloomberg Kimmel Institute has matched that grant with an additional $4 million.

Marguerite Casey Foundation

$6 million to four social-justice organizations that advance ways to build power for historically marginalized communities.

The recipients, each of which will receive $1.5 million, are Haymarket Books; the Highlander Research and Education Center; the University of California at Los Angeles’ Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy; and the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Portal Project.

CURE Childhood Cancer

$4.7 million in grants to research teams at nine pediatric cancer-research institutions in the United States.

Ball Brothers Foundation

$2.4 million to 33 projects in Indiana.

Of the total, $220,000 went toward Project Blueways, which aims to improve local water and soil quality and promote east-central Indiana as a destination for canoeing, kayaking, and rafting.

AltFinance

$2 million to four historically Black colleges and universities to provide students with training and internship opportunities for careers in alternative-asset management.

Howard University, Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College will each receive $500,000.

Moore Impact

$1.3 million to 18 organizations led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color that are working at the intersection of racial equity and Covid-19 recovery efforts.

Women’s Foundation of Boston

$1.3 million to 10 nonprofit groups that advance economic empowerment and mentoring programs for women and girls in the Boston metropolitan area.

H-E-B

$1 million to the Brackenridge Park Conservancy to build the H-E-B Cultural Trail, a new accessible pathway that will highlight the San Antonio park’s historical features, including landmarks important in Indigenous history.

Hispanic Federation

$1 million to create the Advance Change Together program to strengthen Latinx LGBTQ+ advocacy and the organizations that serve those communities.

Frank P. Pierce Foundation

$1 million to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank to support its work in northwest Georgia.

New Grant Opportunity

Sony Electronics is accepting applications for grants from Create Action, part of the company’s social-justice efforts to make $1 million in grants to community-based nonprofit organizations that serve people in underserved communities. The program will choose 10 nonprofit groups that will each receive a cash grant of $50,000 as well as $50,000 in Sony products. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until March 31, 2023; the company will award one grant per month until then.

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