Grants Roundup: $25 Million for Pancreatic Cancer Research; $10 Million for Bush Library

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

A $10 million grant to the George W. Bush Presidential Center will endow a series of public lectures and forums featuring authors and other thought leaders. Photo by Grant Miller

January 24, 2018 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Skip Viragh Foundation

$25 million to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network for its capital campaign to expand research, begin a precision-medicine service, and upgrade its patient registry to improve cancer diagnoses and outcomes. Mr. Viragh, a Maryland businessman, died in 2003.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$18 million to build the Helmsley Health Discovery Tower, a partnership of the University of Haifa and Rambam, on the Rambam campus in Haifa, Israel. The facility “will support strategic partnerships with the medical-device, pharmaceutical, and information-technology industries.”

Highland Capital Management

$10 million to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, in Dallas, to endow a series of public programs that will invite authors and other thought leaders for lectures and forums.

Weingart Foundation

$7.5 million to the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital for its community medical group, a practice that connects ethnically diverse doctors with patients who come through the hospital’s South Los Angeles emergency department and report they receive no regular medical care.

Leon Levine Foundation

$5 million to Appalachian State University for its Hall of Health Sciences.

MetLife Foundation

$5 million to Acumen America for its program EarnUp, which helps people in poverty consolidate their loans in one place and pay down their debt faster.

Quality Jobs Fund

$5 million to the Central Valley Fund, which will make flexible loans and investments to small and medium-size businesses in California’s Central Valley and advise business owners on creating good jobs and providing advanced training for their employees.

Donley Foundation

$2 million to endow a fund at the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation that will be used to promote self-sufficiency, literacy, and educational achievement for disadvantaged children and families in Pennsylvania.

100kin10

A total of $1 million to five recipients that will work with teachers in science, technology, engineering, and math to foster experimentation in K-12 schools.

New Grant Opportunities

The Gerber Foundation is now accepting letters of inquiry for grants up to $350,000 each over 3 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.

The Kresge Foundation has committed $6 million over the next three years for community-development projects in its hometown of Detroit. Planning grants of up to $35,000 and implementation grants of up to $150,000 are available in this round of funding, and the foundation expects to award 10 to 20 grants. Applications are due February 13.

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

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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.