Google.org Awards $25 Million Through Its AI Impact Challenge (Grants Roundup)

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Google.org

$25 million to 20 recipients through the Google AI Impact Challenge, which provides consulting, technical assistance, and developer support to organizations addressing big social, humanitarian, and environmental problems across the globe. The U.S. recipients are Crisis Text Line, New York University, Nexleaf Analytics, Pennsylvania State University, Quill.org, Rainforest Connection, TalkingPoints, the Trevor Project, and the WattTime Corporation.

Pritzker Foundation

$15 million to the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to recruit therapists and psychiatrists who specialize in pediatric mental-health care and improve access to these services for children and adolescents who live in Illinois.

Prudential Financial

$10 million to Rutgers University at Newark to create a scholarship program for residents of Newark, N.J., within the university’s Honors Living-Learning Community.

Derfner Foundation

$6 million to the Mount Sinai Health System to support the new plastic- and reconstructive-surgery suite within the Department of Surgery.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$4.3 million to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and Robarts Clinical Trials to establish the Stenosis Therapy and Anti-Fibrotic Research consortium, which aims to develop new tools for the clinical testing of new treatments for Crohn’s disease.

Kern Family Foundation

$2.5 million to Lipscomb University’s College of Education to develop a leadership-development program for school principals in Tennessee.

Moody Foundation

$2.1 million to the Barton Springs Conservancy to renovate and modernize the Barton Springs Bathhouse, in Austin, Tex.

Southwest Foundation for Osteopathic Education and Research

$1.6 million to the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine to offer scholarships to 33 medical students.

Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation

$1 million to the I Promise School, a charter school created by the basketball star LeBron James, to build a new gym.

Grubhub

$1 million to the James Beard Foundation for its Women’s Leadership Programs to support women entrepreneurs in the culinary arts.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

$1 million to the Hellenic American Leadership Council to endow a fellowship program for young Greek-American leaders.

New Grant Opportunity

The Lung Cancer Research Foundation and Pfizer Global Medical Grants are accepting applications for grants to improve clinical practices that manage the side effects connected to treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. Three grants worth $350,000 each over two years will be awarded. Letters of interest are due June 24.

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