Bloomberg Philanthropies Give $250 Million to Address Pandemic Learning Gaps

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bloomberg Philanthropies

$250 million to address learning gaps resulting from remote learning and education disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy and Success Academy will each receive $100 million to close the achievement gap for students from low-income families through these two public charter schools in New York City and increase their capacity to serve more students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Summer Boost NYC will also receive $50 million to expand summer programs for 25,000 students who attend the city’s charter schools.

Brown-Forman Foundation

$50 million over 10 years to five nonprofit organizations near the company’s headquarters in Louisville, Ky. Brown-Forman owns the liquor brands Jack Daniel’s, Woodford Reserve, Finlandia, Korbel, and Chambord, among others.

The grants include $5 million to the Amped Community Center; $10 million to the Louisville Central Community Center; $5 million to the Louisville Urban League; $10 million to the Simmons College of Kentucky; and $20 million to the West End School.

Starr Foundation

$50 million to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to establish the Starr Foundation Program for Discovery Science, which will back innovative cancer research at the Sloan Kettering Institute, the hospital’s research arm.

Ares Charitable Foundation

$25 million over five years to Jobs for the Future and the World Resources Institute to launch Climate-Resilient Employees for a Sustainable Tomorrow, a new program to offer skills training for workers and create climate-resilient jobs in the United States and India.

Duke Endowment

$25 million to Davidson College for scholarships, professorships, and new student experiences, including internships and research outside of the classroom.

The Duke Endowment also committed a $10 million challenge grant to Duke University’s School of Law to endow scholarships, offer loan-repayment assistance, and support summer and postgraduate public-interest fellowships.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$22.5 million over three years to the END Fund and the Reaching the Last Mile Fund to deliver treatments for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis and eliminate neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Sudan.

Robina Foundation

$18 million to the Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre to endow a fund to commission new plays and musicals.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

$15 million to St. Michael’s Home to expand its capacity by renovating a building it owns in Uniondale, N.Y., to provide residential care for 160 elderly New Yorkers, moving away from its current facility in Yonkers.

San Diego Foundation

$10 million commitment to its new Housing Impact Fund, which will make grants to develop lower-cost housing for working families and other people in need in San Diego.

Schweitzer Engineering Labs

$10 million to Washington State University to construct a new student-success building at the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.

Flinn Foundation

$5.5 million over five years to the University of Arizona College of Medicine at Phoenix for translational research in cardiovascular diseases, neurosciences, and mental health.

The grant will also create two research faculty positions and support the Center for Biotech Research Development and Entrepreneurialism.

Stanley Black & Decker

$3 million to the first 59 grantees through its Empower Makers Global Impact Challenge program.

The organizations are receiving cash grants and $1 million in power tools from the company to help job seekers develop skills in the construction and manufacturing trades.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation

$2 million to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; Florida State University, and Florida A&M University; and Georgia State University as the winners of the foundations’ 2022 Institutional Challenge Grant competition.

The grantees will collaborate with local nonprofit groups and public agencies to expand access to mental-health care for Black youths, improve workforce-development programs, reduce education disparities, and reduce student-loan debt.

Johnson & Johnson

$2 million to Americares to establish the Climate Health Equity for Community Clinics Program, a three-year project to help more than 100 safety-net health clinics in vulnerable communities become more resilient to climate change.

Decolonizing Wealth Project, Jubilee Justice, and New Communities

$1 million to 32 organizations through the Food and Land Justice Fund, which will strengthen efforts to help Black and Indigenous farmers reclaim access to land farmed by their ancestors and prevent future land loss to pipelines and other seizures.

Soloviev Foundation

$1 million to Americares to support its emergency-response teams in Poland and Romania as they provide health services for displaced Ukrainian families.

Walmart

$1 million to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service for New American Cities, its collaboration among local governments, workforce-development centers, employers, and immigration agencies to bolster economic self-sufficiency for resettled refugee and migrant families.

New Grant Opportunity

Genentech and the Genentech Foundation are accepting applications for grants from its 2022 Health Equity and Diversity in STEM Innovation Fund. The fund will award more than $12 million in grants this year to organizations and projects led by people of color to address inequities in health care and education systems. Applications are due June 10.

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