Grants Roundup: Indiana U. Gets $14 Million; a gift of $2.3 Million Aims to Help Nurses
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
February 14, 2018 | Read Time: 2 minutes
Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:
Helen Diller Foundation
$500 million to the University of California at San Francisco to build a new hospital on its Parnassus Heights campus to replace the outdated Moffitt Hospital. This is the second grant of $500 million that the foundation has given the University of California in the past year.
Walther Cancer Foundation
$14 million to the Indiana University School of Medicine for new approaches to cancer care that help patients and their families manage the symptoms, pain, and stress of a cancer diagnosis.
Sodexo Healthcare
$2.25 million over three years to the American Nurses Foundation for its Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation Grand Challenge, which aims to address stress levels, sleep deprivation, and weight gain among the 3.6 million registered nurses in the United States.
Strong Start to Finish
$2.1 million over three years to the City University of New York to replace remedial courses with new types of courses and workshops that make degree attainment easier for students at the highest risk of dropping out.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
$1.3 million to Make-A-Wish America to provide more experiences for children with cancer.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
$1 million to Grand Rapids Community College to expand programs that encourage low-income students, single parents, or underemployed people to seek careers in the public sector and in health care.
New Grant Opportunity
The Loulou Foundation and the Orphan Disease Center at the University of Pennsylvania, which supports research on rare medical conditions, are soliciting letters of interest for research grants in developing new treatments for CDKL5 deficiency disorder, a type of epilepsy with severe cognitive and motor disabilities. Up to five grants worth a total of $150,000 are available. Proposals are accepted until March 8, with full applications due April 6.
Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.
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