Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $160 Million to Stop Teen Vaping (Grants Roundup)

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bloomberg Philanthropies

$160 million for an effort called Protect Kids: Fight Flavored E-Cigarettes, a new partnership with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the CDC Foundation, to ban flavored e-cigarettes and reduce the prevalence of vaping among minors.

Co-Impact

$20 million pledge over five years to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and Last Mile Health to expand and strengthen government-run community-health systems in Liberia. Co-Impact committed $14 million to Last Mile Health, and the Global Fund will receive $6 million.

Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation

$14.5 million to the Lowell Observatory to build its new Astronomy Discovery Center in Flagstaff, Ariz.

Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation

$6.4 million to New York State to make improvements to the Genesee Valley Greenway State Park and the Niagara Shoreline Trail in western New York. The governor’s office will match the grant with an additional $4 million in state funding.

Walmart Foundation

$4.8 million to Digital Green and TechnoServe for programs that give farmers in India access to agriculture technology, training on sustainable farming methods, and skills development for farmer-producer organizations.

Cambia Health Foundation and the John A. Hartford Foundation

$4.25 million to seven organizations for a collaborative project called Building Public Engagement and Access to Palliative and End-of-Life Care. The Hartford Foundation gave $3.5 million, and the Cambia Health Foundation contributed $750,000.

Kavli Foundation

$3 million matching grant to the Salk Institute to endow ongoing neuroscience research at Salk at the joint University of California at San Diego-Salk Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind. The grant was matched by an additional $3 million from the Salk Institute.

World Education Services

$1.2 million to five grantees that help immigrant and refugees integrate into the U.S. work force. The recipients are the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, Jobs for the Future, Mission Driven Finance, Upwardly Global, and the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians.

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

$1 million to the Debate 2020 Local Organizing Committee for efforts to select Hartford, Conn., as one of the four sites that will host the 2020 Presidential Debates.

New Grant Opportunity

Gilead Sciences is accepting proposals for grants through its Transcend Community Impact Fund, which will support programs to help transgender people with HIV/AIDS access quality health care. Organizations with annual operating budgets of more than $1 million can apply for two-year grants worth up to $1 million to make grants to grassroots groups led by trans individuals. Capacity-building grants worth up to $1 million over two years will be awarded to organizations with budgets exceeding $500,000 for training and technical assistance. Direct-service grants worth up to $200,000 over two years will also be awarded to organizations with annual budgets of more than $250,000. Proposals are due October 11.

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