Grants Roundup: Kellogg Fund Backs Work to Combat Native American Stereotypes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Jim Joseph Foundation, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation

$28.8 million to BBYO, a nonprofit that serves Jewish teenagers, to help kick off the organization’s fundraising campaign aimed at doubling its membership.

Salesforce.org

$8.5 million to the San Francisco and Oakland public-school systems to improve computer-science education.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

$2.5 million to the First Nations Development Institute and Echo Hawk Consulting for Reclaiming Native Truth, a two-year project to study negative stereotypes of Native Americans and develop a national campaign for dismantling misconceptions and increasing equality for Native peoples.

Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

$1 million to endow free after-school homework centers in the 38 branches of the Los Angeles Public Library system to help students from low-income and homeless families complete their school assignments.

Eagles Charitable Foundation

$1 million to research and support programs at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia that help people with autism.

Schultz Family Foundation

$900,000 to Blue Star Families to help spouses of military members find jobs.

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