Grants Roundup: $400 Million for Emory U.; $18 Million for Job Training

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Ann Borden/Emory University

January 10, 2018 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

$400 million to Emory University for medical research, facility upgrades, and improvements to patient care at the Winship Cancer Institute and a planned health-sciences research building on the university’s Druid Hills campus.

Wells Fargo

$18 million to United Way Worldwide for a new program to provide skills training and other assistance to help 1 million people find better-paying jobs within five years.

Lilly Endowment

$10 million to the Children’s Bureau to endow its work to protect children who have been abused or neglected or who are living in foster care in Indianapolis.

Walther Cancer Foundation

$10 million to Purdue University’s Center for Cancer Research to develop drug-discovery trials and new treatments for cancer.

Open Philanthropy Project

$6.4 million to Arizona State University for a clinical trial to test a broad-spectrum cancer vaccine.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

$1.5 million to the United Nations Foundation as the fiscal sponsor for the U.S. Climate Alliance and the California Global Climate Action Summit. The summit, which is scheduled for September in San Francisco, will bring together governors, legislators, CEOs, and leaders of charities working to find solutions to climate change.

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$1.4 million to Oregon State University for a study of microbial organisms that date back billions of years and were critical in shaping the evolution of our environment.

Moody Foundation

$1 million to Southern Methodist University to renovate its arts school and support cross-disciplinary research on education and human development.

New Grant Opportunities

Belk, the department store headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., has committed $15 million over five years to Project Hometown, its new grant-making program to bolster community-development organizations that strengthen hometowns throughout the southern United States.

The Barr Foundation has expanded its climate program with an additional $5 million in grants available in 2018 for climate-resilience projects. Grants will be made to charities working to address the inevitable effects of climate change on coastal cities.

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.