Cleveland Foundation Awards $40 Million in Scholarships for Public-School Graduates (Grants Roundup)

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Ronn Richard, CEO of the Cleveland Foundation, at an event announcing a $40 million grant to Say Yes Cleveland to endow a scholarship fund. Cleveland Foundation

October 23, 2019 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Cleveland Foundation

$40 million to Say Yes Cleveland to endow a postsecondary scholarship fund for graduates of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

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$25 million to Support Teacher Housing to build homes for moderate-income educators working in the most expensive areas of the San Francisco Bay Area. Santa Clara County donated 1.5 acres of land for the project in addition to $6 million, and the city of Palo Alto also contributed $3 million.

DoTerra

$14.7 million to Utah Valley University for scholarships, online educational opportunities, athletic programs, and the construction of a new student-athlete wellness building. The essential-oils company also donated $3 million worth of products to the wellness program.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation

$10 million to New York University to establish the Center for Social Media and Politics, which will examine and study the production, flow, and impact of political content shared through social media. Each foundation has given $5 million.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$6 million to Purpose Built Communities to improve housing, education, and community wellness in poor neighborhoods.

Lilly Endowment

$4 million to the Indianapolis Zoo for start-up support of the Global Center for Species Survival, a new international research hub for wildlife-conservation efforts.

San Manuel Band of Mission Indians

$1.3 million to the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law to pay for four legal projects per year at its Tribal Legal Development Clinic.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$1 million to the Library of Congress to improve digital access to the library’s resources through its Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud project.

New Grant Opportunity

Lever for Change, a nonprofit group affiliated with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is accepting applications for the Economic Opportunity Challenge. The competition will award a $10 million grant to one organization with an operating budget over $1 million that is working to expand economic opportunity for low-income people in the United States. Proposals must identify a specific barrier to economic mobility and offer a solution to overcome that barrier. Applications are due February 18, 2020.

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

The Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.

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.