Grants Roundup: Ballmer Group Gives $15 Million to Support Low-Income Students

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Charles Koch Foundation, George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Marriner S. Eccles Foundation

$20 million to University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business to establish the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis, named for the Franklin Roosevelt-era Federal Reserve chairman. The institute will have its own faculty and students, who will focus on statistics and quantitative theory.

Ballmer Group

$15 million in unrestricted support over five years to Communities in Schools for its work preventing at-risk public-school students from dropping out.

John M. Belk Endowment

$10 million to the College Advising Corps, a nonprofit that hires recent college graduates to advise low-income high-school students about applying to higher-education institutions. The money will help launch a text-messaging program to keep parents informed about the admissions process.

Harold Alfond Foundation

A $7.5 million challenge grant to the University of Maine to support the Maine Center for Graduate Professional Studies.

Duke Endowment, William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation

$5.9 million to Duke University to create a World Food Policy Center at the Sanford School of Public Policy to study issues such as food safety and malnutrition.

William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust

More than $5 million over three years to create civic-leadership fellowships for young black men in Lexington and Louisville, Ky.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$1.5 million over four years to the Folger Shakespeare Library for the research project “Before Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures,” which will study pre-industrial food production, consumption, and culture.

Dee J. Kelly Foundation

$1.25 million to the George Washington University Law School, which will rename its learning center in honor of the late Mr. Kelly, a prominent Texas lawyer who earned his law degree at George Washington.

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

More than $1 million to 10,000 Degrees for its programs helping community-college students graduate.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$1 million over four years to the Chicago Foundation for Women for its work combating gender bias and supporting economic opportunities for women and girls.

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