Grants Roundup: Lilly Endowment Grants $70 Million for Ministerial Support

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Lilly Endowment

$70 million through its Thriving in Ministry program, which will support religious leaders at 78 congregations and creates opportunities for mentoring, leadership development, continuing education, and other pastoral-support services.

Ripple

$25 million to RippleWorks for Ripple for Good, a $100 million fund that will make grants to social ventures, with a particular focus on financial inclusion and STEM education. The blockchain company says the fund has received more than $80 million from outside sources.

Grainger Family Descendants Fund

$20 million to Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment to expand financial aid and fellowships for graduate students, conduct research on critical environmental issues, and pay for new academic programs and facilities.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$15 million to Opportunity Insights, a new organization that will publish predictive data on the probability that kids will escape poverty based on where they grow up. The organization, in partnership with the Census Bureau, also received founding grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Overdeck Family Foundation, and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

$12 million grant to the Foundation for Jewish Camp to improve accessibility for campers and staff with disabilities at 250 Jewish summer day and overnight camps nationwide.

Tipping Point Community

$4 million to Santa Rosa Community Health to build mobile clinics inside shipping containers. Its main health clinic burned down during last year’s wildfires in Sonoma, Calif., and is being rebuilt.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$2.5 million to the New England Conservatory of Music for the Boston Bridge to Equity and Achievement in Music, which will expand arts education for young musicians in a partnership with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, the Community Music Center of Boston, Project STEP, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Deloitte Foundation

$1.5 million matching grant to Virginia Tech for its proposed Global Business and Analytics Complex. The grant matches $1.5 million in gifts from the university’s alumni who work at the accounting firm.

Colorado Health Foundation

$1 million to the Women’s Foundation of Colorado to broaden its programs that improve economic opportunities for Colorado women and their families.

New Grant Opportunity

The Express Scripts Foundation is accepting applications for grants to nonprofit groups that aim to improve quality of life in their local communities. Projects should focus on disaster relief, children and families, access to medical and health services, services for military families, education for poor youths, and pharmacy education. Grants are awarded quarterly; the next application deadline is November 30.

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