Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $52 Million to Study Neurodegenerative Disease: Grants Roundup

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

$52 million to the Neurodegeneration Challenge Network, which will support 17 early-career investigators and nine collaborative science teams who are researching neurodegenerative disorders, including ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and Huntington’s disease.

CBS Corporation

$20 million to 18 nonprofit organizations to reduce instances of workplace sexual harassment. The grantees include the National Women’s Law Center, the New York Women’s Foundation, the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, and Rainn. CBS fired its longtime CEO, Les Moonves, earlier this week after multiple accusations of sexual misconduct with employees came to light this year.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust

$15 million to Arizona State University to establish the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience program, which will help people in Maricopa County better cope with economic recessions, natural disasters, and other community challenges.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$13 million to the University of Illinois to hire more staff for its Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency project and expand its efforts to increase yields for its key food crops of soybeans, rice, cassava, and cowpea.

Dr. Phillips Charities

$8.9 million to the YMCA of Central Florida to build and equip a new YMCA center in Orlando.

Luckyday Foundation

$8.7 million to the University of Southern Mississippi Foundation to continue its support of the Luckyday Citizenship Scholars Program, which provides university scholarships for Mississippi high-school seniors demonstrating exceptional leadership skills.

Boeing Company

$6 million to Iowa State University to build the Student Innovation Center, which will include laboratories, workshops, technology, and research opportunities for engineering students.

Ecolab Foundation

$5 million to the University of Minnesota for environmental sustainability research and education, including an endowed chair in the Institute on the Environment.

George Gund Foundation

$4 million over three years to the Fund for Our Economic Future for its collaborative economic-development efforts with local organizations working in northeast Ohio.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

$3 million to South Arts for Jazz Road, a program that will enable jazz artists to tour nationwide and reach a wide range of community audiences.

Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation

$3 million to Capable (Community Aging in Place — Advancing Better for Living) to scale its programs that combine handyman services with nurse and occupational therapist house calls for homebound, low-income, elderly people in West Baltimore.

John Templeton Foundation

$2.9 million to the University of Arizona for a collaboration between astrobiology and theoretical physics researchers on the study of life’s origins.

John A. Hartford Foundation

$2 million over two years to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to purchase equipment and expand resources for its Hospital at Home program that brings hospital-quality care to older adults in their homes.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$2 million to 12 nonprofit organizations in Chicago that offer legal aid to immigrants and help those seeking humanitarian protection or lawful status in the United States.

Cloudera Foundation

$1.2 million to AidData to develop software that helps nonprofit groups use location data, as well as tools like remote sensing and artificial intelligence, to identify where service areas should be and better evaluate their programs’ effectiveness.

Swogger Foundation

$1.2 million to Baker University to endow a humanities professorship and a fund for the study of primary texts.

Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

$1 million to the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum to build and open this new cultural institution in Washington.

Father John H. Morgan Charitable Trust

$1 million to the Catholic Education Foundation of Louisville to endow college scholarships for Catholic high-school students in Louisville. Morgan, a Catholic priest who died in 1998, directed the trust to dissolve after 20 years, and the bulk of the trust’s remaining assets will transfer to the foundation.

New Grant Opportunity

The Keeling Curve Prize is accepting nominations from individuals and organizations working in the mission areas of the Global Warming Mitigation Project: sustainable agriculture, energy storage, distributed or decentralized energy generation, and accelerating current climate-change projects and technology. Up to 10 prizes of $25,000 will be awarded to support projects in the beginning stages of development. Applications will be accepted until February 1 or until 300 applications have been received, whichever comes first.

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