Grants Roundup: Wells Fargo Offers $50 Million for Native American Groups

Here are notable new grant awards and other grant news compiled by The Chronicle:

New Grant Opportunities

• Wells Fargo & Company will award $50 million in grants over five years to American Indian and Alaska Native organizations that are working on economic, social, and environmental needs that affect native communities.

Beginning in 2018, community-based, local nonprofits can apply for grants through the program’s three primary areas of interest: renewable energy and clean water; leadership training and career development; and programs to advance homeownership, low-cost housing, small-business development, and postsecondary education programs and scholarships.

• The Ford, Open Society, and Rockefeller foundations have committed a total of $5 million for Fondo Adelante, a new grant program in support of long-term hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico.

Grants will be administered through La Red de Fundaciones de Puerto Rico (which translates as the Network of Puerto Rico Foundations). Capacity-building grants are now available for charities with a goal of collaborating with other local nonprofits to reshape and restore Puerto Rico’s social-justice framework.

New Grant Awards

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

$7.85 million to the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine for stem-cell research to develop new treatments for acute myeloid leukemia.

Bloomberg Philanthropies

$5 million to the Baltimore Police Department for enhanced crime-fighting technology, including additional surveillance cameras, gunshot detection software, and technology to read license plates.

Greater Texas Foundation

More than $3 million to the Texas A&M Foundation for a program that provides scholarships and coaching for students in 8th through 12th grade from rural communities in Texas who are interested in a college education.

Heinz Endowments

$3 million over three years to the Fred Rogers Company for new media content, educational technology, production-equipment upgrades, new staff, and income-generating opportunities.

Richard A. Henson Foundation

$2.5 million to Salisbury University’s Richard A. Henson School of Science and Technology for scholarships, a science and math honors program, undergraduate and faculty research, and students’ expenses for travel to science conferences.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

$1.5 million to American Public Media to create a new investigative-journalism program with Southern California Public Radio (KPCC), Kansas City Public Media (KCUR), New York Public Radio (WNYC), and Public Broadcasting Atlanta (WABE).

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