Lilly Endowment Awards $20 Million to Help Historic Black Churches Thrive

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Enterprise Community Partners

$25 million in grants to nonprofit affordable-housing organizations that serve communities of color.

The grants will come through its Equitable Path Forward program, which has raised $350 million for loans, impact investments, and grants to eliminate racism in housing.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

$21.3 million in grants to 28 organizations through its Nuclear Challenges project to recruit leaders from underrepresented backgrounds to diversify the nuclear-energy industry and develop new policies and ideas at the intersection of nuclear and climate issues.

Lilly Endowment

$20 million to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund to establish the Preserving Black Churches Project.

The project aims to help the leadership bodies of historic Black churches strengthen their stewardship and financial-management skills, fundraising strategies, and religious programs to ensure their preservation.

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

William Penn Foundation

$6 million across 44 grants to support workforce development and job-training opportunities for 2,000 Philadelphia residents and provide support for families’ basic needs as they recover from their financial losses of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Wells Fargo

$2.4 million to the Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation, First American Capital Corporation, and Riverworks Development Corporation to provide access to low-cost loans, entrepreneurial coaching, and other management help to small businesses owned by women, Native Americans, and other people of color in Wisconsin.

National Park Foundation

$2.3 million across 90 grants through its Open OutDoors for Kids program, which supports opportunities for children to have meaningful learning experiences (both in person and virtual) with national parks.

Lewis Prize for Music

$2.2 million to eight music and arts organizations through its 2022 Accelerator Awards to expand the recipients’ programs, hire additional staff members, offer training and mentorship opportunities, and establish music and technology centers for young people in their communities.

Quidel Corporation

$2 million to the University of Arizona to offer scholarships and internships to students who are seeking careers as scientists and health professionals and to support research projects in human health.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$1.2 million to the Leadership Academy to build an online library of tools and resources to support diversity, equity, and inclusion officers and leaders of color at schools and school systems.

Home Depot Foundation

$1 million to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights for its expansion and community education and training programs. The company made the grant in memory of Martin Luther King Jr.

New Grant Opportunity

The Catalyze Challenge is accepting applications for grants to design, create, and expand programs to help students — from grade 6 through the first two years of college — access economic opportunity through career-connected learning after they leave school. The grant competition is co-sponsored by American Student Assistance, the Charter School Growth Fund, and the Walton Family Foundation. Organizations that are ready to start their programs in the 2022-23 school year may apply for grants worth up to $500,000 each; those with projects still in the design, research, and planning stages may apply for up to $50,000. Applications are due March 1.

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