City College of New York Announces New $290 Million Foundation (Grants Roundup)

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

January 2, 2020 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Foundation for City College

$290 million pledge to the City College of New York to enhance students’ access to educational and research programs, particularly among black students and those from low-income families. The foundation’s endowment comes from the recent consolidation of the 21st Century Foundation and the City College Fund.

Tipping Point Community

$20 million to Better Futures for Foster Youth to change public policy and programs that help youths who have aged out of foster care to secure stable housing, pursue higher education, and access to support services in San Francisco’s Bay Area.

Duke Endowment

$12 million to Duke University to strengthen Christian leadership programs at Duke Divinity School, and to develop new research and bolster local and global faith communities.

Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation

$10 million to Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund to promote new housing, jobs, small businesses, and entrepreneurship within the city.

GameAbove

$8 million to Eastern Michigan University to build a new golf training facility.

Lincy Foundation

$5 million to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas for an endowed chair within its Greenspun College of Urban Affairs.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$4.5 million over three years to OneGoal for a pilot program that will work with school districts to deliver programs in self-discovery, social-emotional learning, test preparation, and college and career planning for students from low-income communities.

Google.org

$4 million to create a grant-making fund at ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability that will support nonprofit groups and academic institutions in Europe and Latin America pursuing data-driven climate action efforts.

Davee Foundation

$3 million to the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to endow scholarships for high-achieving English and history undergraduate students who come from low-income families.

Kern Family Foundation

$1.7 million to Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota to enhance the curriculum for school administrators in its School of Education Character and Virtue Initiative.

New Grant Opportunity

The Gerber Foundation is now accepting letters of inquiry for grants of up to $350,000 each over three years to support research on pediatric health, pediatric nutrition, and the effects of environmental hazards on children under the age of 3. The deadline for applications is May 15.

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

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M.J. Prest has been writing about major gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Email M.J.

About the Author

M.J. Prest

Senior Editor, Solutions

M.J. Prest is senior editor for solutions at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where she highlights how nonprofit leaders navigate and overcome major challenges. She has covered stories on big gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Slate.com, and the Huffington Post, and she wrote the young-adult novel Immersion. M.J. graduated from Williams College and after living in many different places, she settled in New England with her husband, two kids, and two rescue dogs.