Lilly Endowment Provides $15 Million to Preserve Historic Places of Worship (Grants Roundup)

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, will benefit from the National Fund for Sacred Places, a partnership between the Partners for Sacred Places and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to renovate and preserve places of worship. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church

August 14, 2019 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Lilly Endowment

$15 million to the National Fund for Sacred Places, a partnership between the Partners for Sacred Places and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, to renovate and preserve places of worship throughout the United States.

Sunderland Foundation

$15 million pledge to the University of Missouri at Kansas City to improve classrooms, laboratories, and spaces for research and student support at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management, the Miller Nichols Library Learning Center, the School of Law, the School of Dentistry, and the School of Computing and Engineering.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$13 million to Lyndra Therapeutics to develop an oral birth control pill that would provide contraception for a month per dose.

Premera Blue Cross

$10.5 million over four years to Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and the Empire Health Foundation to expand health-care access and improve the quality of care in rural communities in eastern Washington.

Mark Foundation for Cancer Research and the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

$3 million to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for a new research collaboration to develop cutting-edge cancer therapies. Each grant maker gave $1.5 million.

George Family Foundation

$2 million to the Mayo Clinic to endow and create the Center for Women’s Health.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

$1.5 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to expand its early-childhood education initiative.

Together Rising and James Irvine Foundation

$1.2 million to the University of California at Davis School of Law to hire additional staff attorneys to serve detained immigrants through its Immigration Law Clinic. Together Rising provided $900,000 and the James Irvine Foundation contributed $250,000.

New Grant Opportunity

Borealis Philanthropy is accepting proposals for grants from its Immigration Litigation Fund, which advocates for the civil and human rights of people in immigration court. Grants of up to $75,000 will support efforts that challenge discriminatory, unlawful, and punitive immigration-enforcement policies and practices, as well as efforts to exclude certain immigrants from entering the United States. Applications are due September 1.

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

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About the Author

M.J. Prest

Senior Editor, Solutions

M.J. Prest is senior editor for solutions at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where she highlights how nonprofit leaders navigate and overcome major challenges. She has covered stories on big gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Slate.com, and the Huffington Post, and she wrote the young-adult novel Immersion. M.J. graduated from Williams College and after living in many different places, she settled in New England with her husband, two kids, and two rescue dogs.