Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $242 Million for Clean Energy in Low-Income Countries

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bloomberg Philanthropies

$242 million commitment to strengthen the development of solar, wind, and other renewable-energy sources in low-income countries, where demand for electricity is projected to grow rapidly in the coming years.

The program will initially focus on clean-energy efforts in Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam.

Once Upon a Time Foundation

$25 million commitment to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to create the Raynor Cerebellum Project, which will study diseases associated with cerebellum dysfunction and develop treatments to preserve and recover lost brain function.

JPMorgan Chase

$20 million over five years to support summer youth-employment programs in 24 regions across the United States, particularly for young people ages 16 to 24 from historically marginalized communities.

Simons Foundation

$11 million to the National GEM Consortium to enable 500 researchers from Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous racial backgrounds to pursue doctorates in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.

Koret Foundation

$10 million to Tel Aviv University and ANU: Museum of the Jewish People to establish the Koret Center for Jewish Civilization, a partnership between the two organizations to enhance teaching about Judaism as an international community.

Maguire Foundation

$10 million to Gwynedd Mercy University to build the Frances M. Maguire Healthcare Innovation Campus on its main campus in Gwynedd Valley, Pa.

Frannie Maguire was a 1955 graduate of Gwynedd Mercy College. She died in 2020 at age 84.

Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation

$10 million to City of Hope for its efforts to give access to supportive-care medicine, which includes physical, psychological, social, and practical support services, to patients who are receiving cancer care.

Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation

$6.3 million in grants to address hunger and food insecurity, low-cost housing opportunities, and projects that enhance diversity, equity, and civil rights in the Sarasota, Fla., region.

Among the grants was $2.5 million to the All Faiths Food Bank to expand screening programs that will help health providers detect food insecurity among children and families who live in Florida’s Sarasota and DeSoto counties.

East West Bank

$6 million to nonprofit groups that serve the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the United States in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

The recipients include the Pacific Bridge Arts Foundation, Stop AAPI Hate, the Asian Pacific American Leadership Fund, and Gold House.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$5 million to the Urban Institute to create the Just Home Project, a national program designed to reduce housing instability and incarceration rates in four areas: Charleston County, S.C.; Minnehaha County, S.D.; the City and County of San Francisco; and Tulsa County, Okla.

Each area is also eligible to receive money from the foundation’s $15 million pool of impact-investment funding.

Genentech Foundation

$5 million to San Francisco State University to pay for equipment for chemistry teaching labs and activities, student scholarships, and the development of chemistry curricula at its new Science and Engineering Innovation Center.

Public Welfare Foundation

$3.5 million through its True Reformer grant program to seven grantees that work to improve youth and adult criminal justice.

Grants of $500,000 each went to the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, the Michigan Center for Youth Justice, the African American Roundtable, Women on the Rise, Operation Restoration, the People’s Advocacy Institute, and Voices for a Second Chance.

Rite Aid Healthy Futures

$3 million to 34 children’s hospitals through its Connecting Communities program to develop community-based programs to strengthen health and racial equity in the neighborhoods surrounding children’s hospitals.

Dan David Prize

$2.7 million to nine early- and midcareer scholars of history.

Each of the nine winners received $300,000 in recognition of their academic achievements to date and to support their future work.

George and Bernice Cooke Scholarship Foundation for Women

$2.5 million to Florida International University to endow scholarships for nontraditional students and those who are military veterans or service members.

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation

$2 million to 80 organizations that work in caregiving, design and access, youth sports, and the Grosse Pointe, Mich., community.

The grants came through the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Legacy Funds, which are held at the community foundation.

Mellon Foundation

$2 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem to study, conserve, and expand public access to work by the photographer James Van Der Zee.

The project aims to preserve 6,000 deteriorating film negatives, and catalog and digitize Van Der Zee’s archive of 20,000 prints and 30,000 negatives that recorded Black life in Harlem from the early 1900s up until his death in 1983.

Lowe’s

$1 million to City of Hope to support a garden for patients at its new Orange County cancer center, which is expected to open in Irvine, Calif., this year.

New Grant Opportunity

The Public Interest Registry is soliciting nominations for its annual .Org Impact Awards. Cash prizes worth between $10,000 and $35,000 each will recognize innovative nonprofit organizations and individuals that are working to make the world a better place. The award categories in 2022 are: health and healing; diversity, equity, and inclusion; environmental stewardship; hunger and poverty; quality education for all; community building; rising stars; and the .Org of the Year Award, which honors one organization with significant accomplishments. All nominees must operate a website whose domain name ends in .org to be eligible. Nominations are due June 29.

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

Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.