Grants Roundup: Huntsman and Koch Funds Team on $50 Million Utah State Grant

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

$51 million over five years to public schools in Battle Creek, Mich., where the grant maker is based. The money will support efforts to recruit and retain teachers, programs for students in pre-kindergarten, and the creation of a STEM academy, among other priorities.

Kellogg also gave $2 million to the Corporation for Enterprise Development to support research and policy advocacy about how to help families of color build wealth.

Huntsman Foundation and Charles Koch Foundation

A combined $50 million to the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University to expand the Huntsman Scholar Program, an honors curriculum for undergraduates studying business, and launch the Center for Growth and Opportunity, which will undertake economic research about the interaction among business, government, and individuals.

Jerome L. Greene Foundation

$15 million to Columbia Law School, primarily for scholarships. The grant endows the Greene Public Service Scholars program,

which will aid students preparing for careers in government, nonprofits, academia, social entrepreneurship, or community development. It will also support a matching scholarship fund and a clinical professorship.

JPMorgan Chase

$6 million to better prepare young people in New York’s South Bronx for jobs. The grant will create a new apprenticeship model and a data system to track career-opportunity programs and support efforts to connect technical-education schools to employers in the fields of health care, information technology, and transportation.

Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation

$3.5 million to the

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to establish the Hope 44 Endowed Fund, which will aid families facing financial hardship due to a child’s cancer treatment. Mr. Rizzo, an all-star first baseman for the Chicago Cubs, is a cancer survivor.

Taube Philanthropies

$3 million to a Huntington’s disease research project conducted by the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Gladstone Institutes.

Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation

$2.5 million to the Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising at Kent State University to endow the school’s director position and support a study-abroad program.

Susan G. Komen Greater NYC

$1.5 million to 20 nonprofits in New York that provide breast-cancer services and to support research into finding a cure for the disease.

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