Arkansas Children’s Northwest Receives $25 Million for Endowment and Expansion

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation

$25 million to Arkansas Children’s to expand its efforts to bolster child health in northwest Arkansas and create an endowment.

The children’s hospital has named its Springdale campus after Pat Walker, an Arkansas philanthropist who died in 2016. Her late husband, Willard Walker, was an original stockholder and executive at Walmart.

T. Boone Pickens Foundation

$20 million to Johns Hopkins Medicine to endow research and professorships at the Wilmer Eye Institute.

Pickens, a Texas oilman who died in 2019, was treated at the eye center for cataracts and macular degeneration.

NBA Foundation

$13.5 million to 40 organizations that are working toward equity in education, income, and employment in marginalized communities.

Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation

$9.5 million over three years to the Jewish Federations of North America to back programs at the Mandel Center for Leadership Excellence to recruit leaders and strengthen leadership across the federation’s system.

American Association for University Women

$6.3 million to 285 grantees to advance educational and professional opportunities for women and girls.

John Templeton Foundation

$3 million over three years to the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study to develop academic coursework on human flourishing.

The grant will also pay for 15 fellowships at the institute for faculty members to spend a semester or summer in residence developing courses on topics connected to happy and meaningful lives.

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

$2.7 million to 48 art museums and schools across the United States to reduce their climate impact and improve their energy efficiency and reliance on renewable energy.

The grants were made through the foundation’s Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, which plans to give $15 million in grants through 2025.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$2.5 million to Sheridan Memorial Hospital to build a new behavioral-health unit that will augment psychiatric care at the hospital in Wyoming.

Mellon Foundation

$2 million to Collage Dance to hire more staff, strengthen audience engagement, and back special projects at the Black ballet company in Memphis through 2026.

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

$1.6 million to the Pride Foundation to provide unrestricted support to organizations in Washington State that primarily serve LGBTQ+ youths.

Kresge Foundation

$1.5 million to 29 nonprofit groups through its Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus program, which helps community-development groups plan and start projects to revitalize Detroit-area neighborhoods.

National Life Group Foundation

$1.4 million to 119 organizations that work to address childhood hunger and support youth mental health in central and northern Vermont and the Dallas metropolitan area, where the insurance company has its offices.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$1 million to the Public Media Venture Group to develop its NextGen TV platform and tailor public-interest content to the communities where its programs broadcast.

Pediatric Cancer Foundation

$1 million to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for a clinical trial to test a new immunotherapy for high-risk pediatric leukemias.

New Grant Opportunities

The CareQuest Institute is accepting proposals through its Disability Inclusion and Justice in Oral Health program, which will make grants of $125,000 each to organizations that are working to reduce barriers to oral health for people with disabilities. Ten grants will be awarded in this round. Applications are due August 31.

A Little Better Company is accepting applications for grants from its Unless Project, which will award grants as well as marketing and organization-strengthening services to four small charitable organizations in the United States. Nonprofits must work in the areas of environmental sustainability, human health and wellness, social progress and advocacy, or artistic activism. Each grantee will receive marketing coaching and a cash stipend of $2,500. Applications are due October 15.

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