Park Foundation Adds $25 Million to Ithaca College Scholarship Endowment (Grants Roundup)

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

The Park Scholar Program supports high-achieving students involved in communications and community service. Ithaca College

August 28, 2019 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Park Foundation

$25 million to Ithaca College to augment the endowment for its Park Scholar Program. This new grant follows $5 million the foundation gave to the scholarship program in 2014. Roy Park served as chairman of the college’s Board of Trustees from 1982 until his death in 1993; Dorothy Park died in 2016 at the age of 103.

Kendeda Fund

$24 million over four years to four recipients to help workers adopt democratic employee ownership plans at their companies across the United States. The grantees are the Evergreen Cooperative Corporation’s Fund for Employee Ownership, the ICA Group, Nexus Community Partners, and Project Equity.

Burke Foundation

$7 million pledge to Marquette University to continue a fellowship program for graduate students and a full-tuition undergraduate scholarship for Wisconsin high-school seniors.

Google.org

$3 million to GiveDirectly to support large-scale cash grants directly to low-income families affected when a natural disaster hits the United States.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

$2 million to METAdrasi — Action for Migration and Development for its work to meet the needs of refugees and migrants as they resettle into society. This organization is the winner of the foundation’s 2019 Humanitarian Prize.

Delta Air Lines

$1.5 million pledge to Polaris to continue operations of the National Human Trafficking Hotline. The airline has also donated 100 flights to transport survivors of human trafficking.

Zappos.com

$1.5 million pledge to the University of Louisville to repaint and refurbish seats in its football stadium.

Ball Corporation

$1.1 million to the University of Colorado at Boulder for its new Aerospace Engineering Sciences building that is opening this fall, and to support scholarships in engineering and business.

New Grant Opportunity

The Unitarian Universalist Funding Program is inviting applications for grants from its Fund for a Just Society. Grants of up to $15,000 each will be awarded to nonprofit groups in the United States and Canada that are engaged in community organizing, work with people who have been disenfranchised, and have active social-justice campaigns. Applications are due September 15.

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About the Author

M.J. Prest

Senior Editor, Solutions

M.J. Prest is senior editor for solutions at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where she highlights how nonprofit leaders navigate and overcome major challenges. She has covered stories on big gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Slate.com, and the Huffington Post, and she wrote the young-adult novel Immersion. M.J. graduated from Williams College and after living in many different places, she settled in New England with her husband, two kids, and two rescue dogs.