Grants Roundup: $65 Million for Mental-Health Services for Veterans

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Special Olympics has received $10 million from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for its programs to promote inclusive sports participation by disabled youths and other students. Special Olympics has received $10 million from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for its programs to promote inclusive sports participation by disabled youths and other students.

July 5, 2018 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Wounded Warrior Project

$65 million to Home Base, a collaboration between the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital, for its capital campaign and to expand clinical services that provide personalized mental-health care to injured veterans and their families.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Up to $35 million to the Flint Cultural Center to design, build, and equip a new charter school in Flint, Mich., that is scheduled to open in 2019, and to make additional improvements to the community center’s campus.

Northwestern Mutual Foundation

$15 million to Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to create the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute and to endow professorships at both universities, support research projects, hire new faculty, and expand the curricula and pre-college learning opportunities in data science.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

$10 million over three years to the Special Olympics for its programs to promote inclusive sports participation by disabled youths and other students in schools worldwide.

NoVo Foundation

$4 million over four years to Grassroots International to strengthen feminist organizing in Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Palestine, and the United States, particularly in Puerto Rico.

Caviness Beef Packers

$2 million to West Texas A&M University to build a lab for meat-related research in its new agricultural-sciences complex.

Dorothy G. Griffin Charitable Foundation

$1 million to the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Oneida Healthcare for a joint capital campaign by the two medical centers.

New Grant Opportunity

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will pay for new, innovative works of dance, theater, and music through its Knight New Work Miami grant-making program. Artists, including choreographers, playwrights, and composers, and performing-arts organizations with strong connections to Miami are eligible to apply; multiple grants will be awarded from a funding pool of $500,000. Applications are due August 31.

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

Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.

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.