Grants Roundup: Sunderland Foundation Awards $66 Million to Kansas Hospital

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Sunderland Foundation

$66 million to the University of Kansas Health System for an in-patient care unit at its hospital Cambridge Tower A.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

$60 million pledge for climate-change efforts, including $20 million to the Natural Climate Solutions Initiative for the protection, restoration, and management of land in order to capture and store carbon.

The pledge is part of $459 million of commitments from nine foundations to combat global warming. Read more of our coverage of this consortium of grant makers and their conservation plans.

Kresge Foundation

$50 million over seven years to Marygrove College for a new school campus that will serve 1,000 students and boost community-revitalization efforts in northwest Detroit. This follows a grant of $16 million earlier this year to shore up the liberal-arts college’s enrollment and finances.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$20.5 million to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to study sexual health among adolescents and young adults in poor, urban communities.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$10 million matching grant to the Lenfest Institute for Journalism to strengthen local journalism in Philadelphia and nationwide. The institute matched the grant with $10 million of its own, for a total of $20 million to support national leadership programs, shared technology resources, supporting local news sustainability, and journalistic integrity.

William Penn Foundation

$9.4 million to 20 arts and cultural organizations to deliver arts-education programs to Philadelphia neighborhoods and schools.

Carl S. Swisher Foundation

$6 million unrestricted to Jacksonville University. The university hasn’t yet announced how it will use the grant.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

$1.75 million to Friends of the Children for pilot programs in Los Angeles and New York to pair mentors with families who been involved with the foster-care system.

New Grant Opportunities

The Conservation Fund is accepting proposals for grants through its Program for Transporting Healthy Food, which offers grants worth $2,500 to $10,000 to pay for delivery costs of transporting fresh food to markets in underserved areas. Grant money may be used to buy refrigerated vehicles, safe food storage, food delivery in isolated communities, and other aspects of food transportation. Organizations must be located in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia. Applications are due September 28.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting proposals for Technology, Infrastructure, and Health grants to use digital technology to solve community health problems. Researchers, community organizations, city leaders, and other health advocates are eligible to apply. Projects will receive between $200,000 and $400,000, and a total of $2.4 million in funding will be awarded. Proposals are due October 17.

Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.