Grants Roundup: Gates Seeds $25 Million for Farming; Pepsi Gives $4 Million to WaterAid

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$24.6 million to the African Agricultural Technology Foundation to develop insect-resistant and drought-tolerant maize hybrids and distribute them to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Owsley Brown II Family Foundation

$5 million to the University of Louisville to establish the Envirome Institute at the School of Medicine. The institute will study how patients’ environments affect their health.

PepsiCo Foundation

$4.2 million to WaterAid to provide access to clean water in parts of southern India suffering from extreme drought.

Wellcome Trust

$3.1 million to George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health to study the impact of new California laws that restrict the use of antibiotics on livestock raised in the state.

Harold J. Miossi Charitable Trust

$3 million to Cuesta College and the Foundation for the Performing Arts Center. Each organization received $1.5 million to rename their performance spaces after Miossi, a cattle rancher and inheritance-tax appraiser in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., who died in 2006.

John A. Hartford Foundation

$2.2 million over three years to the American Geriatrics Society and the American College of Emergency Physicians to support their Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative, which will provide training for doctors, nurses, and other medical staff and develop emergency-room interventions to provide better outcomes for senior patients.

Public Welfare Foundation

$1 million to Common Justice for operating support. The criminal-justice nonprofit works to curb mass incarceration and provide services for crime victims.

Kate Spade New York Foundation

The fashion company’s charitable arm committed $1 million to Crisis Text Line and other organizations dedicated to suicide prevention and mental-health awareness. So far, the foundation has given Crisis Text Line $250,000 and pledged to match up to $100,000 in additional public donations.

New Grant Opportunity

The Strada Education Network is seeking proposals to create new and collaborative methods of career advising for high-school and college graduates as they move into the work force. Applicants must create teams of organizations representing at least three of the following categories: employers, community-based organizations, education providers, and the public sector. Between five and seven grants will be awarded for three-year projects, and Strada has committed $5 million for the program. Proposals are due July 23.

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