Grants Roundup: 2 Groups to Receive $100 Million Each

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

$100 million over five years to the Infection Research Initiative, which aims to improve outcomes of lung infections through better practices of detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust

$100 million to the University of Arkansas Foundation to endow the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, which was established in 2005 for civic, cultural, educational, and research programs. An heir to an oil and banking fortune, Rockefeller served as the governor of Arkansas from 1967 until 1971; he died in 1973.

Allstate Foundation

$45 million over five years to Good Starts Young, a campaign to build social and emotional learning skills in youths. The campaign will install temporary monuments along the National Mall, in Washington, with aspirational inscriptions such as “Astronaut to Lead Mars Expedition,” “Teacher to Solve Global Illiteracy,” and “Architect to Eliminate Homelessness” to remind young people of their potential to solve world problems.

Starbucks

$20 million pledge to subsidize farmer income and provide emergency relief to sustain small farms in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Nicaragua during an economic crash in the coffee market.

Baycross Christian Family Foundation

$5 million to Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida to pay for critical pediatric-health programs, technology, and services in the region.

MassMutual Life Insurance Company

$5 million to the University of Vermont to bolster data science and analysis at the Complex Systems Center within the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$1.2 million to Lyrasis for the technical development of CollectionSpace, a type of software to help art museums and other institutions manage their art and artifact collections.

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

$1 million to the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development to train teachers how to improve racial, religious, and ethnic tolerance in students from kindergarten to college.

New Grant Opportunity

On November 15, the Akron Community Foundation will begin accepting proposals for grants through the Gay Community Endowment Fund, whose goal is to improve the health and well-being of LGBTQ people in Ohio. Preference will be given to nonprofit groups that create safer environments for queer youths, work against homophobia and transphobia, and operate mental-health and suicide-prevention programs. Charities may apply for either an impact grant of at least $10,000 or a micro grant, starting at $1,000. Applications are due December 15.

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