Grants Roundup: Google.org and Accenture Pledge Big Grants for Economic Development

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Accenture

$200 million over three years for Skills to Succeed, Tech4Good, and Accenture Development Partnerships, its three programs dedicated to improving education, job training, and skills development for young people preparing for careers in the digital age.

Google.org

$100 million over five years to Grow With Google, the technology giant’s program to provide job training and entrepreneurship support at economic-development nonprofit groups working in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

$27.5 million to Rutgers University at New Brunswick for a joint program with the Agricultural University of Athens and the American Farm School to revitalize agriculture in Greece and support training for young farmers.

Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

$20 million to the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for collaborative research on age-related cognitive impairment, including cerebrovascular issues and neurodegenerative diseases. The American Heart Association matched the grant with another $20 million for the program.

Nationwide Foundation

$10 million to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, for an innovation fund that supports promising research and clinical discoveries in pediatric health.

Land O’Lakes Foundation

$5 million to Iowa State University to build a new student innovation center and support scholarships in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Ripple

$4 million to the Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund for its conservation efforts to save gorillas in Rwanda. One of this technology company’s chief investors is the actor Ashton Kutcher, who is a personal friend of the talk-show host.

Salesforce.org

$1.5 million to Hamilton Families for the Heading Home Initiative, a program to provide permanent housing for homeless families in San Francisco.

Gill Foundation

$350,000 to the Biden Foundation and Y-USA for the first year of a joint partnership to make YMCA locations nationwide more inclusive for LGBTQ people and families.

New Grant Opportunity

The GHR Foundation and OpenIDEO are accepting proposals for the 2018 BridgeBuilder Challenge, which will grant a total of $1 million to organizations working to address problems in its three program areas of peace, prosperity, and planet. Nonprofit, civil-society, community-based, and for-profit organizations working in the United States or around the world are all eligible. Applications are due June 4. (See a Chronicle article about how to navigate open requests for proposals, such as this one.)

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