Native American Agriculture Fund Commits $100 Million for Health and Nutrition in Tribal Communities

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Native American Agriculture Fund

$100 million over 12 years to enhance Native American farming practices and mitigate food and nutrition disparities in tribal communities.

Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation

$100 million commitment to the Mayo Clinic to double patient access to its proton-beam facility, which treats cancerous tumors with precise radiotherapy while minimizing the negative effects of radiation on surrounding healthy tissue.

Ford Foundation

$80 million to Weaving Resilience, a new program to strengthen civil-society organizations and social justice in eight regions throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Read more about Weaving Resilience in the Chronicle.

Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation

$30 million to Cleveland Clinic to endow the position of the clinic’s CEO and establish an innovation fund.

The endowment and fund will both be named for Morton Mandel, who died in 2019 at age 98. He was a Cleveland businessman and a longtime donor to the hospital system.

Weingart Foundation

$13.5 million to 54 organizations that serve marginalized communities to address systemic racism and advance racial equity. Of the total, $8.2 million will provide unrestricted support to grantees.

Overdeck Family Foundation

$13 million to 23 recipients to bolster academic and socioemotional outcomes for children.

The largest grant of $4.6 million over three years went to LENA for general operating support of its programs for parents, caregivers, and educators that use coaching to improve early language development.

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

$10 million to ArtsFund to establish the Community Accelerator Grant, which will provide unrestricted grants worth between $2,500 and $25,000 to hundreds of cultural nonprofit organizations across Washington state.

Borealis Philanthropy

$4.9 million to 38 organizations through its Racial Equity in Journalism Fund to support the sustainability of news organizations and local journalism outlets in communities that are primarily Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

UJA-Federation of New York

$3.9 million in additional assistance for refugees from Ukraine who have fled to New York, Israel, and countries bordering Ukraine, as well as vulnerable populations who have remained behind.

John Templeton Foundation

$2.4 million over three years to the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Governance and Markets for research on polarization and social divisions in Ukraine, Romania, Uzbekistan, and the United States, among other countries with deep political divides.

Boeing

$2 million commitment for disaster recovery and relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

The commitment includes a $750,000 grant to the Volunteer Florida Foundation for its Florida Disaster Relief fund.

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

$1.5 million to 55 local organizations that boost economic opportunity in marginalized communities in Arizona, California, and Nevada.

Hugh Kaul Foundation

$1.5 million to the Birmingham Museum of Art to endow the salary for the Alabama museum’s chief financial officer.

Hugh Kaul, the president of the Kaul Lumber Company and a longtime supporter of the museum, died in 1991.

Tow Foundation

$1.5 million to 10 nonprofit programs that serve marginalized communities in six states through its Innovation Fund.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$1.3 million to expand the Protecting Journalists Pro Bono Program, which provides free legal advice to freelance reporters, nonprofit newsrooms, documentary filmmakers, and other small news organizations.

Ford Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Park Foundation, and Theguardian.org

More than $1 million over 2.5 years to The Guardian U.S. to hire a new democracy correspondent and back its editorial series “The Fight for Democracy.”

Manulife

$1 million commitment to World Central Kitchen for its efforts in responding to global disasters, emergency preparedness, and resiliency.

Truist

$1 million to support relief and recovery efforts for communities in Florida affected by Hurricane Ian.

The grants include $400,000 to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy for its Atlantic Hurricane Season Recovery Fund for Hurricane Ian.

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