Groundswell Offers $80 Million to Groups Led by Women of Color; Corporate Aid to Street Vendors

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Bezos Day One Fund

$105.9 million to 42 social-services organizations that help homeless families in 24 states. The grants range in size from $450,000 to $5 million.

Groundswell Fund

$80 million over five years in grants that will provide general operating support to grassroots organizations led by women of color and transgender women, particularly groups working in the South, Midwest, and southwestern United States. The foundation’s 501(c)4 arm, the Groundswell Action Fund, will also provide $20 million by 2025 to cover general operating support and rapid-response grants at grassroots organizations, and boost electoral work led by women of color.

Lilly Endowment

$33 million to 11 community foundations in Indiana to strengthen the towns, cities, and counties that they serve. The grants range in size from $250,000 to $5 million.

(The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)

Champlin Foundation

$18 million to 188 recipients working in social services, education, historic preservation, and arts and culture in Rhode Island, primarily for capital purchases.

San Manuel Band of Mission Indians

$14 million to the Claremont Graduate University to build a health research center that will be equipped to support the health and well-being of underserved, vulnerable people living in California’s Inland Empire and Indian Country.

Gilead Sciences

$10 million over three years to 20 grantees through its Racial Equity Community Impact Fund, a new program to address racial inequities that affect Black communities across the United States.

Kavli Foundation

$10 million to the University of Oxford to establish the Kavli Institute for NanoScience Discovery.

Windgate Foundation

$10 million to the Arkansas Community Foundation to create an endowment that will provide ongoing operating support for the Eureka Springs School of Art.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

$6.3 million to four organizations that work directly with educators, schools, and districts to enhance ideas that promote and enable educational equity for students of color and low-income students. The largest grant of $1.8 million went to Beloved Community, a New Orleans-based charity, to expand its Equity Audit Tool Suite for schools and districts. Equal Opportunity Schools, the Hearts program at the University of California at San Francisco, and the Mindset Scholars Network each received $1.5 million.

Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria

$5.7 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian to support Native Knowledge 360°, the museum’s national education program.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$3 million in its second round of the Art Museum Futures Fund to provide emergency support to 14 small arts and cultural institutions across the United States that have lost revenue during the Covid-19 crisis and are at risk of closing permanently.

Dogwood Health Trust

$2.8 million through its Racial Equity Community Grants program to 130 nonprofit organizations and government agencies in western North Carolina.

Genentech

$2.8 million to the University of California at San Francisco to develop and test a Whole Family Wellness research program over three years that will work with pediatric health care providers and community organizations in the Bay Area.

LoanDepot

$2 million to provide direct cash assistance and grants to nonprofit groups that work with vulnerable individuals and families who have lost their jobs during the Covid-19 crisis. Of the total, $1.5 million will be given in direct cash grants to 3,000 people. The remainder will be allocated in grants of $100,000 each to War Heroes on Water, United Cerebral Palsy of Orange County, Boys and Girls Club of Central Orange Coast, Second Harvest Food Bank, and Free Wheelchair Mission.

Morgan Stanley

$2 million to the Street Vendor Project to provide financial assistance to 2,000 street vendors across New York City who have lost earnings during the Covid-19 crisis. Robin Hood is donating an additional $375,000 to manage the program, which will give cash grants of $1,000 to eligible street vendors.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation

$2 million to Oregon State University to scale its Covid-19 mapping program and make it available to public-health departments, universities, and other institutions nationwide to help measure the prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 through community surveillance sampling, wastewater analysis, viral-sequence data, and mathematical models.

Comic Relief USA

$1.5 million challenge pledge to support Red Nose Day, a campaign that enlists entertainers to raise money to help children living in poverty. The organization will match up to $1.5 million in donations to Red Nose Day between December 12 and 20 through its #Thankmas2020 social-media campaign.

Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation

$1.3 million to health-care programs that deploy nurses to serve people who are most vulnerable to the Covid-19 crisis, including four grants for interventions to address health disparities that the pandemic has exacerbated.

Facebook

$1 million to the Cleveland Foundation for its newly created Black Futures Fund, which will make grants to social-change organizations that serve and are led by Black people.

GlaxoSmithKline

$1 million to Direct Relief to purchase personal protective equipment and other essential medical items for U.S. health workers on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis.

State Employees’ Credit Union

$1 million to Feeding the Carolinas to meet escalating demand related to the Covid-19 crisis at this consortium of food banks in North Carolina.

New Grant Opportunities

The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation has committed to award $3.5 million in grants through Project Innovation, which will give grants to nonprofit groups that foster storytelling, a culture of inclusion, youth education, or community engagement. Organizations must have an annual operating budget of more than $100,000 and be within the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Hartford, Los Angeles, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, or Washington, D.C. Applications may be submitted after January 8, with a deadline of February 12.

Decriminalize Sex Work is offering grants worth up to $20,000 each for local, state, and federal efforts to decriminalize prostitution between consenting adults in the United States. The grant program will award $150,000 in its first round of grant making, with an expected average grant amount of $12,000. Priority will go to organizations led by sex workers who are leading campaigns to change laws on the local and state levels. Letters of intent will be accepted on a rolling basis.

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