Mandel Foundation Awards $50 Million to Cleveland Orchestra
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
October 6, 2021 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation
$50 million to the Cleveland Orchestra. Of the total, $31.5 million will add to its endowment and create the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Opera and Humanities Festival. The balance will expand the orchestra’s programs and partnerships, including its online streaming platform.
The Mandel brothers turned a Cleveland business that sold small auto parts in 1940 into Premier Farnell PLC, a multinational industrial and electronic component supplier. Jack Mandel died in 2011, Joe Mandel died in 2016, and Morton Mandel died in 2019.
Amazon Web Services
$40 million over three years to organizations that are developing solutions to address social determinants of health and improve health equity and outcomes in marginalized communities.
Namati, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$20 million to the Fund for Global Human Rights to establish the Legal Empowerment Fund, which will make grants to grassroots organizations that advance justice for marginalized communities and the environment.
The initial commitments include $10 million from the Mott foundation and $5 million each from Namati and the Hewlett foundation.
The Hewlett Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Weingart Foundation
$8 million to organizations in Southern California that address racial justice and needs in communities of color.
Among the grants is $1 million to the L.A. Justice Fund and the California Dignity for Families Fund to advance immigrant and refugee rights.
Cognizant Foundation
$5.5 million to 13 organizations in the United States and Canada to offer computer science and programs in science, technology, engineering, and math to students in kindergarten through 12th grade and develop a pipeline to technology careers for underrepresented populations.
Liberty Hill Foundation
$3.3 million in two-year grants for general operating support at 65 grassroots groups that work in community and electoral organizing in Los Angeles County.
Google.org
$3 million to the BlueConduit Charitable Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and WE ACT for Environmental Justice to develop open-source machine-learning technology to identify service lines that must be replaced because they deliver drinking water containing dangerous levels of lead, especially in households in poorer communities.
Liberty Mutual Foundation
$2.5 million over five years to Bridge Over Troubled Waters to expand its housing and support services for youths who are experiencing homelessness in Boston.
John A. Hartford Foundation
$1.7 million over three years to the Education Development Center to expand its tool kit for hospital emergency departments to detect, prevent, and address elder abuse.
Flourish Ventures
$1.5 million to Consumer Reports to monitor innovations in the digital-financial marketplace that operate outside the rules governing traditional banking and to strengthen consumer protections against predatory practices.
Accenture
$1.4 million to the University of Texas at Austin to establish the Business of Sports Institute at the McCombs School of Business.
Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation
$1 million to the PBS Foundation to support its American Experience documentary series.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$1 million to the Black Women’s Health Imperative for a national antiracism campaign to address workplace inequities that affect the health and wellness of Black women.
TransDigm Group
$1 million to the Cleveland Clinic to support its Vision First program, which operates a mobile optometry clinic to deliver vision screenings and eye examinations at local elementary schools.
New Grant Opportunity
The TD Charitable Foundation is accepting proposals for its annual Housing for Everyone grant competition, which will grant a total of $5.8 million to 33 housing nonprofit organizations that help individuals and families in need find low-cost housing. Grants between $150,000 and $250,000 will be awarded to nonprofit groups that work in work-force development, public benefits enrollment and management, housing navigation and eviction prevention, housing counseling, and financial coaching and education. Applications are due October 28.
Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.
Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.
