Grants Roundup: YouTube Pledges $25 Million to Bolster Video News; Ballmer Group Supports Alternatives to Youth Prisons

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

YouTube

$25 million pledge to news organizations including Vox Media, Jovem Pan, and India Today to improve the way news is credibly shared on its video platform and to support journalism organizations in 20 global markets as they build sustainable video operations.

Ballmer Group

$20 million to Youth Advocate Programs for its new strategy to develop alternatives to youth prisons and other criminal-justice institutions for young people.

Citi Foundation

$10 million to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation for its Bridges to Career Opportunities program, which connects unemployed Americans with jobs in growth industries that have a shortage of skilled workers.

Sunday Group

$5 million to the University of California at Los Angeles to create the Connection Lab, a new center that aims to guide the future of the internet and computer networking.

Dow Chemical Company Foundation

$4 million to Delta College and the University of Michigan for a new building to house the Andrew N. Liveris Innovation Institute in Midland, Mich. The institute also received $2 million from the Dow Corning Foundation and $1.4 million from the Herbert H. & Grace A. Dow Foundation.

Kenneth Rainin Foundation

$1.9 million to the Oakland Unified School District to continue a partnership focusing on literacy in kindergarten through second grade in 18 district schools.

Google.org

$1.5 million to the University of Colorado at Boulder to expand its global education program in science, technology, engineering, and math at elementary schools through college and to house the program at the National Center for Women and Information Technology, in Boulder.

Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust

$1.5 million challenge grant to Newport Hospital, in Rhode Island, to expand its emergency department.

Sigma Pi Phi

$1.5 million to Base 11 to expand rocketry education at historically black colleges and universities and improve diversity in the aerospace industry.

New Grant Opportunity

The Wellcome Trust has committed $330 million to the Leap Fund, its new grant-making program that will support high-risk medical research to develop scientific breakthroughs over the next five to 10 years. Researchers in biology, engineering, physics, computer science, and medicine are invited to apply.

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