Amgen Foundation Commits $21 Million for Scholarships: Grants Roundup

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Home Depot Foundation

$250 million over seven years to help military veterans by building and renovating homes for them, assisting those who are homeless, and expanding other programs. The company made a similar $250 million contribution in 2011.

Amgen Foundation

$21 million over four years to the Amgen Scholars Program to provide summer research opportunities to an additional 1,500 students. The students hail from 700 universities, and 24 institutions will host them, including Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Cambridge, University of Toronto, and Yale University.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

$10 million to the University of Houston to bolster its Data Science Institute with an endowed scholarship and equipment to enhance its data-science research and programs.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$5 million to the International Center for Journalists for a fellowship program that fosters digital innovation and storytelling in newsrooms, improves audience engagement, and creates sustainable business models.

Walmart Foundation

$4 million to the Foundation for California Community Colleges, Code for America Labs, and edX to provide career-related education, training, and skills to workers in the retail industry.

Easton Foundations

$1.5 million to California State University at Northridge to start an endowment for faculty members in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Alana Foundation

$1.5 million to the LuMind Research Down syndrome Foundation to establish the Down syndrome Clinical Trial Network. The biopharmaceutical companies AC Immune SA and H. Lundbeck A/S also gave $1 million and $500,000, respectively, to the effort.

William and Mildred Levine Foundation

$1 million donation to the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester to create the Levine Center to End Hate. One of the center’s first programs will reach out to middle- and high-school students and start discussion groups on the basis of hate crimes.

Bloomberg Philanthropies

$1 million to the Anchorage Museum and the City of Anchorage for its public art project Solutions for Energy and Equity through Design Lab, which will renovate a neglected downtown building and turn it into a cultural center for Alaskans.

New Grant Opportunity

Google.org is accepting applications for grants from its AI for Social Good program, which will support projects at nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies to harness artificial intelligence for social impact and to solve world problems. A total of $25 million in grants will be disbursed in this first round of funding. Applications are due January 22.

Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.

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Correction: A previous version of this article said that the Amgen gift would go toward undergraduate scholarships instead of summer research opportunities. That same entry has been clarified to say that the students came from 700 institutions and that 24 universities will host them.