Grants Roundup: Communities in Schools Gets $17 Million, Plus $15 Million for Detroit

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Communities in Schools works to keep at-risk students in school. Communities in Schools works to keep at-risk students in school.

May 16, 2018 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

$17 million over four years to Communities in Schools to bolster its strategic plan and serve more at-risk students.

Kresge Foundation

$15 million pledge to the Strategic Neighborhood Fund 2.0, a partnership between the City of Detroit and Invest Detroit to revitalize 10 neighborhoods over the next five years.

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

$6 million to Johns Hopkins University to expand the School of Nursing’s main academic facility.

Landmark Foundation

$5 million to Old Dominion University to make need-based scholarships available to Virginia undergraduates.

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

$4.9 million to the University of Kentucky for its perinatal program, which treats pregnant women in rural Kentucky who are addicted to opioids.

Vanguard

$3 million over three years to the Free Library of Philadelphia to improve early literacy and language development among poor children through partnerships with child-care agencies in Philadelphia.

Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation

$2 million grant to the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens for its master plan, which includes strengthening the environmental and clean-energy benefits of its Sky Garden in Sarasota, Fla.

Farhang Foundation

$1 million to the University of California at Los Angeles’s Herb Alpert School of Music to create a new minor program in Iranian music.

New York Women’s Foundation

$1 million to the MeToo Fund to support cisgender, transgender, and minority activists working at local organizations to prevent sexual violence in their communities.

New Grant Opportunity

The Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation and Enterprise Community Partners are offering grants of up to $50,000 through the Housing and Economic Assistance to Rebuild Texas program. Texas charities can apply for funding for housing repairs (such as mold remediation, roof replacement, electrical repairs, and other problems caused by flooding) or programs and services to provide ongoing housing assistance and case management to families who lost their homes in Hurricane Harvey. Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis until the program has committed its entire $1.6 million fund.

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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.