Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Gives $32 Million for Biomedical Imaging Research

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

AbbVie

$50 million over five years to six nonprofit groups to enhance their support of underserved Black communities across the United States. The grantees are Direct Relief, the National Urban League, Providence St. Mel School, the United Negro College Fund, the University of Chicago Medicine’s Urban Health Initiative, and Year Up.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

$32 million to advance the work of biomedical-imaging researchers and develop new technology. The grants include $1.3 million to the BioImaging North America international network of bioimaging facilities and scientists in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Raytheon Technologies

$25 million over five years to support marginalized people and communities through programs focused on racial justice, empowerment, and career readiness. As part of the commitment, the aerospace company will offer a $2 to $1 match of employees’ gifts to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Urban League, and the Equal Justice Initiative.

Anne and Brutus Kenan Fund

$21.5 million to Melmark to endow its services for children and adults with autism-spectrum disorders, developmental and intellectual disabilities, acquired brain injuries, and other neurological disorders.

Meyer Foundation

$20 million over five years to create the Fund for Black-led Change, which will bolster Black-led organizations in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region. Of the total commitment, $15 million will be given in multiyear grants for general operating support to groups with Black leaders with an emphasis on organizing and advocacy. The remaining $5 million is reserved for organizational infrastructure, capacity building, and other programs to advance racial equity and social justice.

Windgate Foundation

$17.5 million to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to endow a position and support research, programs, and an acquisitions fund to bring new craft objects into the museum’s permanent collection.

Boeing

$14.2 million to 97 veterans’ organizations to offer workforce transition services and recovery and rehabilitation programs for military veterans worldwide.

E.L. and Thelma Gaylord Foundation

$7.5 million to the University of Oklahoma to create an endowment that will pay the salary of the chief of pediatric hematology and oncology at the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital Jimmy Everest Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders in Children. Part of the grant was an undisclosed personal gift from Jim and Christy Everest, whose son, Jimmy, died of bone cancer in 1992. Christine Gaylord Everest is the former chairman and CEO of the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Truist Foundation

$7 million over three years to Purpose Built Communities to sponsor its Racial Equity Ambassadors program, which aims to improve health outcomes, economic mobility, and racial equity in communities of color.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$5 million to Particles for Humanity, a biotechnology company, to evaluate its single-injection technology that delivers all the doses of multiple vaccines required for full immunization in one shot.

Google.org

$5 million to the Scratch Foundation for several computer-coding programs for kids, including the new Scratch Education Collaborative for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, particularly those from backgrounds that are underrepresented in technology.

Kern Family Foundation

$4.8 million to Western Governors University to introduce character education as a component of two graduate-degree programs within its Teachers College and create the Character Education Profession Learning Program, which will be housed in the Center for Professional Learning at the Teachers College.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$4.7 million for three separate studies on dietary interventions to treat Crohn’s disease.

Berggruen Institute

$3 million to the University of California at Los Angeles’s Luskin School of Public Affairs to produce and disseminate the Berggruen Governance Index, which will evaluate the quality of political and administrative governance of different countries.

Brainerd Foundation

$2.2 million to 27 recipients in its final round of grants. The Seattle foundation announced in 2008 that it would spend down its endowment by the end of 2020 after 25 years of grant making in the Pacific Northwest. In this round, the largest grant, of $300,000, went to the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund for general operating support.

Heavy Construction Systems Specialists

$2 million to the University of Houston’s College of Technology to endow scholarships and upgrade its information technology.

Smithfield Foods

$2 million over two years to the North Carolina Business Committee for Education to pay for wireless hotspots in rural areas to improve internet access for students and address long-term technological solutions for disadvantaged communities.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

$1.1 million to IllumiNative to prioritize the representation of Native nations and peoples in American policies and advocate for the equitable inclusion of indigenous people in society.

New Grant Opportunity

The Gerber Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry regarding grants worth up to $350,000 each over three years for research on pediatric health, pediatric nutrition, and the effects of environmental hazards on children under the age of 3. Concept papers are due May 15, 2021.

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