O’Donnell Foundation Awards $60 Million to Dallas County Promise

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

O’Donnell Foundation

$60 million commitment to the Dallas College Foundation and the Commit Partnership to back their Dallas County Promise programs that support students and increase economic mobility in Texas’s Dallas County.

The Dallas College Foundation has received $30 million to back full-tuition scholarships to students in need, nontraditional adult students, and students who are participating in work-force training programs.

The Commit Partnership will receive an additional $30 million to expand middle- and high-school career advising across multiple school districts and to upgrade its data collection and other administrative operations.

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

$9 million to support six research projects in organelle communication and membrane biophysics.

The grants, worth $1.5 million each, came through the Allen Distinguished Investigators program at the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group.

Liberty Mutual Foundation

$9 million to 60 grantees through the inaugural round of its Impact Driven Collaboration grant program, which supports collaborative projects among three or more nonprofit organizations that are working together to increase access to food and shelter, strengthen climate resiliency, and bolster opportunities in education and work-force development.

Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies

$7.2 million to the Woodland Park Zoo to expand its Advancing Empathy Initiative, which seeks to foster empathy between humans for animals in accredited zoos and aquariums.

John C. Martin Foundation

$7 million to the Center for Disease Analysis Foundation to expand the Polaris Observatory, which tracks global data on the spread of hepatitis B and C.

John Deere Foundation

$6.6 million over three years to Feeding America for unrestricted support of its hunger-relief programs.

Jobs for the Future

$4.5 million over three years through its Quality Green Jobs Regional Challenge to support clean-energy jobs in six regions of the United States.

Yawkey Foundation

$2.5 million to Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology to name the student lounge on its new campus in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood.

Adobe Foundation

$2 million through its Hometown Commitment to support 10 local organizations near its headquarters in San Jose, Calif.

The recipients are the Children’s Discovery Museum, Cinequest, the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy, HomeFirst, the Kelsey, Local Color SJ, the San José Downtown Association, the San José Museum of Art, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, and the Tech Interactive.

Wyncote Foundation

$2 million to the Philadelphia Film Society to expanse its educational, cultural, and entertainment programs.

T.D. Jakes Foundation and Wells Fargo

$1.5 million to Paul Quinn College to create new student housing in a mixed-use community on campus.

Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation

$1 million to the Bay Park Conservancy to improve the shoreline and water quality at the Bay, a public park in Sarasota.

SECU Foundation

$1 million to Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers to build additional rooms for therapy and education and expand the number of people it can serve on its campus in Durham, N.C.

Teiger Foundation

$1 million to MoMA PS1 to establish the Teiger Foundation Exhibition Fund, which will support the contemporary-art museum’s curators. Embargoed until Tuesday 12/10 at noon

New Grant Opportunity

The Music Man Foundation is accepting letters of interest for its Meredith Willson Awards, which will grant up to $2 million to arts organizations that work on a national scale. Between three and eight nonprofits will receive two-year grants worth between $100,000 and $1 million for general operating support. Letters of interest are due January 24.

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