Grants Roundup: Bloomberg Gives $20 Million for Tobacco Control

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Michael Bloomberg’s foundation is giving $20 million to three organizations to create a new international tobacco-industry watchdog group called Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products, which will be known as STOP. Michael Bloomberg’s foundation is giving $20 million to three organizations to create a new international tobacco-industry watchdog group called Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products, which will be known as STOP.

August 15, 2018 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bloomberg Philanthropies

$20 million jointly to the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, and the University of Bath to create a new international tobacco-industry watchdog group called Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products.

Wagner Foundation

$15 million to Partners in Health for new international health programs that aim to improve the health of poor people, particularly women and children, in 10 countries.

William G. McGowan Charitable Fund

$9 million over six years to Rush University Medical Center to expand its Eat, Love, Move program, which completed a two-year pilot project that helped patients make lifestyle changes to reverse metabolic diseases.

Peg’s Foundation

$2.5 million over five years to the I Promise School, an elementary school in Akron, Ohio, created by the basketball star LeBron James. The grant will pay for administrative support services.

Waco Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation

$1.6 million to Baylor University to endow Camp Success, its summer language and literacy intervention program for children with communication disorders.

Davee Foundation

$1.5 million to the University of Illinois at Chicago to offer more need-based scholarships for high-achieving students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

$1.25 million to Habitat for Humanity to provide aging-in-place services for low-income seniors, including home modifications and nursing care.

Delaware North

$1 million to Buffalo Promise Neighborhood to open a preschool that will be free for children in the poorest communities of Buffalo, N.Y.

Facebook

$1 million to NewsMatch, a project of the Miami Foundation to match individual gifts to more than 100 nonprofit newsrooms nationwide.

New Grant Opportunity

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has opened a second round of grants through its Community Fund, which supports charities and leaders working in community development in the Bay Area. Organizations working to address urgent needs for vulnerable people and families in Belle Haven, East Palo Alto, North Fair Oaks, and Redwood City, Calif., will receive priority. Grants are unrestricted and worth $25,000 to $100,000 each. In its first year, the foundation approved grants to 41 organizations. Applications are due September 19.

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

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

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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.