Grants Roundup: Houston Zoo Nets $50 Million for New Habitats

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

John P. McGovern Foundation

$50 million to the Houston Zoo for its capital campaign to build new multispecies habitats that mirror real ecosystems for wildlife from Texas and around the world.

Open Philanthropy Project

$11.3 million to the University of Washington School of Medicine for research at the Institute for Protein Design to develop a universal flu vaccine.

Los Angeles Clippers Foundation

$10 million to Los Angeles’s Department of Recreation and Parks Foundation to renovate hundreds of public basketball courts throughout the city.

Farmer Family Foundation

$5 million pledge to the Cincinnati Children’s Center for Stem Cell and Organoid Medicine for research on growing human organs and tissue using a patient’s own stem cells, which would end the need for organ transplants.

Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation

A total of $4 million to the Michigan Health Endowment Fund and the Health Foundation for Western & Central New York. Each foundation will receive $2 million to hire program officers focused on making grants to charities that support caregivers for older adults.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$1.3 million to Brown University’s Leadership Alliance to pay for summer research opportunities for underrepresented students in the humanities and social sciences.

Tom’s of Maine

$1 million to the Nature Conservancy for freshwater-restoration projects across the United States.

New Grant Opportunities

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are accepting applications for grants through the new Communities Thrive Challenge. Community-based organizations focused on expanding economic opportunity for low-income people and communities across the United States are eligible to receive $1 million grants. Specifically, charities should aim to help low-income people find and retain good jobs, achieve financial security, or build thriving neighborhoods. Up to 10 grants will be awarded in the fall. Applicants must register online by June 12; applications are due June 19.

The Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy is accepting applications for its 2018 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The $5,000, one-year fellowship supports doctoral research and dissertations on women’s philanthropy and gender differences in giving. It will be awarded to a Ph.D. candidate at an accredited graduate school in the United States. The deadline for applications is April 30.

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