New Health Foundation Commits $150 Million in Inaugural Round of Giving (Grants Roundup)

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation

$150 million to health organizations across New York State in its first round of grant making. Among the inaugural grantees is Harlem Children’s Zone, which has received $1 million to expand a program to reduce and prevent childhood obesity in Harlem.

This foundation was created with $3.2 billion of the proceeds from the sale of Fidelis Care, a nonprofit health insurer operated by the Bishops of the Catholic Dioceses of New York, to the Centene Corporation in 2018.

Wellcome Trust

$50 million to create the Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator for drug research to develop antiviral treatments for the new coronavirus. Mastercard is also committing $25 million for the effort.

W.M. Keck Foundation

$10 million to Linfield College for its new science facility on its campus in McMinnville, Ore.

Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation

$10 million to Ohio State University for an interdisciplinary research facility and to support dementia and leukemia research, drug development to treat cancer, health and wellness programs for student-athletes, and scholarships for business students.

San Manuel Band of Mission Indians

$9 million to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas to endow a professorship in the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality and provide curricular, faculty, and program support at the William S. Boyd School of Law related to tribal gaming operations and law.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$5 million to public-health agencies in the Seattle metropolitan region to enhance their detection of coronavirus in Washington’s King County, Snohomish County, and more areas near the foundation’s headquarters. This commitment is in addition to the $100 million that the Gates Foundation gave last month to slow the spread of Covid-19.

Rockefeller Foundation

$3 million to Medic Mobile to create Medic Labs, a new global-health technology incubator that will support research and development at community-health groups.

Sun Family Foundation

$1.8 million to the Simon Foundations to expand the Simon Scholars Program into eight additional high schools in Southern California, for a total of 190 students each year across 22 schools. This six-year scholarship program assists primarily underserved students from the end of their sophomore year of high school through college graduation.

Comic Relief USA

$1 million to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico to create the Vimenti Project, a comprehensive program to address generational poverty on the island.

New Grant Opportunity

The Bush Foundation is accepting applications for its Bush Prize for Community Innovation, which recognizes nonprofits, schools, and government agencies in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota that are successfully addressing community needs. Charities that win will receive a flexible grant of 25 percent of their budget for the previous fiscal year, up to $500,000. In 2019, five charities won the award. Nominations are due April 9.

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