Grants Roundup: Foxconn Commits $100 Million for Engineering Research

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Foxconn Technology Group

$100 million pledge to the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a new research institute at the College of Engineering, which will collaborate with the company’s factories in southeast Wisconsin. The pledge requires the university to raise matching gifts.

Goizueta Foundation

$25 million to Emory University for clinical trials and neuroinflammation research at its Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

J.P. Morgan

$7 million over four years to the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship to create a financial-inclusion lab, which will provide technical assistance to start-ups in India.

Lilly Endowment

$5 million to the Indiana Youth Institute for general operating support.

L.L. Bean

$3 million to the National Park Foundation for the Find Your Park/Encuentra Tu Parque campaign to encourage people of all ethnicities to spend time visiting national parks.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$2.6 million to create a fund at the Chicago Community Trust to support youth programs at Heartland Alliance and Metropolitan Family Services that reach out to kids who are affected by gang violence and provide them with job opportunities, therapy, coaching, and other services.

Ford Foundation and Peter G. Peterson Foundation

$1.5 million to U.S. 2050 for cross-disciplinary research papers on the demographic, economic, societal, and fiscal trends that will shape America in the future.

American Express

$1 million to Young Audiences to expand arts-education opportunities for young people through their schools.

Zendesk

$1 million to the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business for its new Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership.

New Grant Opportunity

The Center for Nonprofit Advancement is accepting nominations for its Phyllis Campbell Newsome Public Policy Leadership Award, which recognizes public officials who go above and beyond in advocating on behalf of nonprofit groups. Four winners are selected each year. Elected and nonelected officials from Northern Virginia, Maryland’s Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, and Washington, D.C., are eligible to receive the award. The deadline for nominations is September 12.

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