Lilly Endowment Splits $62 Million Among Every College and University in Indiana (Grants Roundup)

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Lilly Endowment

$62 million to every accredited college and university in Indiana through its Charting the Future for Indiana’s Colleges and Universities program. Each of the 38 institutions will receive $1 million to $5 million, based on the size of its student enrollment. (The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)

Truist Financial Corporation

$40 million to establish CornerSquare Community Capital, a national nonprofit fund that will support community-development financial institutions and help them make loans to small-business owners. The fund will focus on supporting entrepreneurs who are Black, women, or live in low- and moderate-income communities.

Grainger Foundation

$32 million commitment to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to expand enrollment at its College of Engineering by 1,000 students, with an emphasis on diversifying its student body and offering more scholarships. The grant also endows the dean’s position at the college.

Panda Cares

$20 million to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to establish the Panda Cares Center of Hope, which will support hospital programs and services for pediatric patients and their families. Panda Cares is the corporate giving arm of the restaurant chain Panda Express.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$15 million to Rutgers University to help establish the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.

American Express

$10 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation to create the Coalition to Back Black Businesses, which will make grants to support Black-owned small businesses in the United States over the next four years. The coalition is a collaborative effort by the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the National Business League, the U.S. Black Chambers, and Walker’s Legacy.

Momentum Fund

$8.5 million in grants to 129 nonprofit organizations in the United States that are managing Covid-19 relief funds to provide grants to community-run organizations, primarily those working with communities of color, historically marginalized populations, and other groups that the pandemic has disproportionately affected.

Yum Brands

$6 million over five years to nonprofit groups and other organizations to advance racial equity and opportunity in Louisville, Ky. Among the grantees is the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to establish a fund that will provide grants to Black entrepreneurs and nonprofit groups that work to expand economic opportunity in West Louisville.

Citi Foundation

$5 million to Living Cities to give mayors throughout the United States access to technical expertise, training, and seed capital for innovative programs to address racial gaps in wealth and income in their cities.

ECMC Foundation

$5 million to City Year to place recent college graduates from AmeriCorps in disadvantaged K-8 public schools for the 2020-21 school year. The school districts are in Denver; Los Angeles; Miami; New York; Philadelphia; Providence, R.I.; Sacramento; San Jose, Calif.; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.

TD Charitable Foundation

$4.9 million to 32 housing nonprofit organizations to provide direct relief and services to enable low-income renters to keep their apartments during the Covid-19 economic crisis.

Walmart Foundation

$4.5 million to the nonprofit groups Tanager and Pradan to expand their efforts to help farmers in India, particularly women in agriculture, earn more money by increasing output and ensuring they can access a fair market for their goods. The grant is part of a 2018 pledge of $25 million from the retail giant to improve the livelihoods of Indian farmers over five years.

Norcliffe Foundation

$1 million to Philanthropy Northwest for the WA Food Fund, a hunger-relief program to provide emergency food assistance to residents of Washington State during the Covid-19 crisis.

New Grant Opportunities

The Daniel and Barbara Chapman Trust is accepting applications for the Chapman Prize, an annual award that recognizes the efforts and achievements of individuals and nonprofit organizations in the United States who make significant contributions to American society. Up to $100,000 is awarded each year; for 2020, the focus area is health and wellness. Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen or a nonprofit group based in the United States, have been conducting charitable work for at least three years, and be able to show demonstrated success in improving health and wellness. Applications are due October 15.

The Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities are partnering on Cornerstone: Learning for Living, a new grant program to bolster the humanities in general education on college and university campuses. Community colleges, STEM-oriented institutions, liberal-arts colleges, regional comprehensive institutions, and research universities may apply for implementation grants worth up to $350,000 over 24 months. These grants may be used to support teaching fellowships for doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, or visiting faculty. Planning grants of up to $25,000 are also available for successful curricular reform and faculty professional development. Concept papers are due December 1.

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