Grants Roundup: Home Depot Pledges $50 Million for Skilled-Labor Training

Home Depot Foundation

$50 million over 10 years to the Home Builders Institute to train 20,000 people, particularly veterans, to be plumbers, electricians, and carpenters and to learn other trades.

Lilly Endowment

$10 million to the Indiana University at Bloomington for the new Center for Rural Engagement, which will support community development in rural areas of Indiana.

Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation

$10 million to the University of California at Los Angeles to create the Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families.

Moody Foundation

$6.25 million to the YMCA of Austin to open Camp Cypress, an 85-acre overnight and day camp in Buda, Tex.

Doris Bry Trust

$4 million to Fountain House in support of its community psychiatrist who works to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia.

Alphawood Foundation

$1 million to the Joffrey Ballet for new staff, technology upgrades, and research.

Woodward Hines Education Foundation

$900,000 over four years to Achieving the Dream to provide data coaching and assessment tools to two Mississippi community colleges in support of their students’ success and economic opportunities.

New Grant Opportunities

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting proposals for its Grand Challenges Explorations grant program in the areas of immunization, nutrition, and disease surveillance of crop plants in low-income countries. Initial grants of $100,000 are available, with the potential for additional funding of up to $1 million for the most successful projects. Applications are due May 2.

The Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy has issued a request for applications for its 2018 Investigator’s Award in Cell and Gene Therapy for Cancer. Cancer researchers who are tenured or tenure-track faculty are eligible for a grant of up to $500,000. Preference will be go to research on solid tumors, orphan tumors, and pediatric tumors and to projects that have not previously received funding. Full applications are due May 15.

The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing has created the Youth for Safety and Justice Fund, a rapid-response grant program to provide awards of $1,000 to $5,000 to nonprofit organizations that are helping young people plan protests or other activist work for gun control, safety, and justice. The program’s top priority is supporting projects that connect the problems of gun violence with racial-justice activism. Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis.

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