Education Cannot Wait Commits $500 Million to Serve Refugee Students and Teachers

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Education Cannot Wait

$500 million over four years for its efforts to continue the education of up to 5 million school-aged refugee children worldwide.

As part of this commitment, the organization gave $2 million to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees for its work in Egypt to serve children and teachers who have fled the war in Sudan.

Lilly Endowment

$145.8 million to six colleges and universities in Indiana for community-development projects that aim to improve the quality of life for residents who live near the institutions.

In a separate grant, the foundation gave $32 million to Belmont University for a new nationwide program to create and curate new works of art, music, and performances about the Christian faith.

The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$48 million through Press Forward, a collaborative grant-making program announced earlier this year to strengthen local news.

Included in this total, the foundation has given $32.5 million to seed a fund at the Miami Foundation that will provide a way for individual donors to support the effort.

The MacArthur Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.

Weld Trust

$25 million to the University of Northern Colorado to help establish its College of Osteopathic Medicine and train more primary-care doctors, particularly those who will practice in rural areas.

Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas

$21 million over three years to 20 organizations to expand access to reliable, low-cost internet service in communities across Texas and help people in need apply online for public benefits.

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

$19.9 million to 146 organizations to promote democracy, public education, environmental justice, and social and economic equity in North Carolina.

Almost three-quarters of the grants are for general operating support.

Otto Bremer Trust

$14.9 million in grants to organizations that are working to improve quality of life for residents of Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Negaunee Foundation

$14 million to Chicago Scots toward its capital campaign to renovate the Scottish Home at Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care for low-income older adults in need of long-term care.

1994 Charles B. Degenstein Foundation

$10 million to Susquehanna University to renovate and expand its Charles B. Degenstein Campus Center.

The center opened in 1982 following a gift from Degenstein, who was an executive at the Weis Markets chain of supermarkets in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. He died in 1998.

New Balance Athletics

$10 million commitment to the University of Massachusetts at Boston to establish the New Balance Institute for Innovative Leadership in Sport.

Pivot

$7 million to 14 organizations for their efforts to advance racial justice and build political power among communities of color in California.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$4.8 million to CFLeads to continue its program that helps community foundations lead economic-mobility projects in their regions.

Jerome L. Greene Foundation

$3 million to the Irish Arts Center to name its new theater, which will house a variety of performing and visual arts.

John A. Hartford Foundation

$1.9 million over 3 years to the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists for a program to help older adults and their caregivers better manage their medications.

Salesforce and the Wells Fargo Foundation

$1.15 million to RE-volv to back its programs to finance solar projects at nonprofit groups, lead community-education events about the adoption of solar power, and train new leaders in clean energy leaders over the next two years.

Salesforce gave $850,000 and the Wells Fargo Foundation donated $300,000.

Synovus Bank

$1 million to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to expand its prevention services for children in rural areas of Georgia, in particular its programs that prevent obesity, injury, illness, and behavioral- and mental-health challenges.

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