Mellon Foundation Awards $13.4 Million to Expand the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Fellowship

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Lilly Endowment

$34 million to eight human-services organizations in Indianapolis for their long-term financial sustainability plans, technology upgrades, marketing and communications, and programs to bolster the recruitment, training, and retention of staff and volunteers.

The recipients are Cicoa Aging and In-home Solutions, the Damien Center, the Dove Recovery House for Women, Foster Success, the Indiana Youth Group, Public Advocates in Community Re-entry, RecycleForce, and Volunteers of America Indiana.

The foundation also awarded $20 million to 21 theological schools in the United States and Canada to strengthen their educational programs for Christian church leaders and help the seminaries prepare for their financial future. The grants in this cohort range from $690,999 to $1 million each.

The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.

Trinity Church Wall Street

$23.4 million to 114 organizations that address affordable housing, homelessness, racial justice, and criminal-justice reform.

Among the grants, the Washington National Cathedral received $491,000 to create a program that advances racial justice and spirituality leadership development.

Episcopal Health Foundation

$21 million to 44 community-based organizations and clinics that address the social determinants of health or provide preventive-health services to low-income families across Texas.

Mellon Foundation

$13.4 million to the National Park Foundation to expand the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Fellowship, which will create 30 postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities at national parks across the United States and create public programs that feature interpretive and educational resources about the complicated history of the parks, monuments, and other historical sites.

Apple

$10 million to the Dignity and Justice Fund to improve cybersecurity at civil-society organizations that study, expose, and prevent mercenary spyware threats.

The fund is a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund and was established by the Ford Foundation.

H-E-B

$10 million commitment to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District to build a new school after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers.

Part of the donation is coming from the Butt family, which owns the grocery chain.

Ford Foundation and South Arts

$6 million to 17 grantees through the Southern Cultural Treasures program, which is primarily funded by the Ford Foundation and administered through South Arts. Additional support for the program came from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, the Infusion Fund, the Zeist Foundation, and a partnership that comprises the City of Charlotte, the Foundation for the Carolinas, and individual donors.

This is the first round of giving through the program, which awards multiyear grants for general operating support to arts and cultural organizations that are led by and serve Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

LEGO Foundation

$5 million to Scratch to expand its free creative-coding programs for young people and educators.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$3.5 million to Phase Genomics to develop technology to use phages, which are viruses that prey on bacteria, as a tool to fight antibiotic-resistant diseases like C. difficile infections, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease.

Rite Aid Healthy Futures

$3 million over three years to the SeriousFun Children’s Network for its racial- and health-equity programs at 30 summer camps worldwide that serve children with serious illnesses and their families.

Bank of America

$2.5 million to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to enhance a six-week summer program for students from historically marginalized communities as they make the transition from high school to the university.

The grant will also create the Community Innovation Incubator to develop research on racial equity and economic opportunities in the Charlotte region.

Burton D. Morgan Foundation

$2.2 million to six grantees to advance economic development in manufacturing in northeast Ohio.

The largest grant of $1 million went to JumpStart to support entrepreneurial services and programs in advanced manufacturing, with a focus on energy storage and advanced materials.

Saint Luke’s Foundation

$1.8 million over two years to 13 organizations that work to advance health equity in Cleveland.

Hector and Gloria López Foundation

$1.7 million to the University of Texas Foundation to create a scholarship fund for 15 first-generation Latino students at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Ruth Foundation for the Arts

$1.3 million in its first round of grants to 78 arts organizations across the United States.

San Diego Foundation and Dr. Seuss Foundation

$1.3 million to 21 early-childhood-education groups in the San Diego area that serve children under age 5 and their families.

California Endowment

$1 million pledge to organizations in California that raise public awareness in support of the transgender community and the dangers trans people face, including health, economic, and educational disparities.

Clif Bar & Company

$1 million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison for outreach to organic farmers and to endow a professorship in organic agriculture.

New Grant Opportunities

Google.org is accepting proposals for $30 million in grants through its Impact Challenge on Climate Innovation. Six organizations will each receive $5 million for projects that use open data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to advance awareness of climate change and action. Priority will go to organizations that apply before July 29, but proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all six grants have been awarded this year.

The University of Pennsylvania is accepting nominations for the Barry and Marie Lipman Family Prize, an annual award for leadership and innovation in solving pressing world programs. The grand prize is a $250,000 unrestricted cash award, and $125,000 will go to each of the two other winners; all winners will also receive tuition-free access to executive-education programs at the Wharton Executive Education, the Center for Social Impact Strategy, and the university’s School of Public Policy and Practice. Nonprofit organizations that have been in operation for at least three years and have an annual operating budget over $500,000 may apply. Nominations are due August 1.

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