Seattle Children’s Receives $50 Million for Pediatric Cancer Research

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

William Lawrence and Blanche Hughes Foundation

$50 million to Seattle Children’s to accelerate pediatric immunotherapy cancer research and back clinical trials for leukemia and other childhood cancers.

In honor of the grant, the children’s hospital will name the Seattle Children’s Research Institute building after B. Wayne Hughes, the founder and chairman of the self-storage company Public Storage. He died in 2021.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

$35 million across 82 grants to back restoration and conservation projects in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

$12.7 million to Tel Aviv University to establish the Helmsley Medical Simulation Center, which will provide training to medical, dental, and other health-care professionals in Israel.

CSX

$10 million commitment to the Museum of Science and History toward its capital campaign to move the museum into a new facility on the St. Johns River, in Jacksonville, Fla.

Moody Foundation

$6 million to Lubbock County Expo Center toward construction costs to build a multipurpose arena for rodeo and other entertainment events.

Jerome L. Greene Foundation

$5 million to Columbia Law School to expand the Greene Public Service Scholars program, which the foundation created with a $15 million commitment in 2017.

The new grant will also endow the Gillian Lester Fund for Student Financial Aid, named after the law school’s departing dean. Lester has been its dean since 2014 and will remain a member of Columbia’s faculty.

Sunderland Foundation

$5 million to Kansas City University to back its Center for Population Health and Equity on the university’s campuses in Kansas City and Joplin, Mo.

John Deere Foundation

$3.9 million over three years to the National FFA Organization for programs to prepare young people for careers in agriculture.

Lilly Endowment

$3.75 million to the Community Foundation of Elkhart County to augment its endowment and build an outdoor park at the Tolson Center for Community Excellence, in Indiana.

The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.

Mellon Foundation

$3 million to three regional theater companies to help them develop new programs and reach broader audiences. Grants of $1 million each went to the Long Wharf Theatre, in New Haven, Conn.; Actors Theatre of Louisville, in Kentucky; and Portland Center Stage, in Oregon.

The foundation also awarded $1 million to the University of California at Los Angeles to augment its Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation program, which is administered by the university’s Getty Conservation Program at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology to increase inclusion in the field of cultural conservation.

Siemens Foundation

$3 million to the Families and Workers Fund to back an effort to create career pathways in the electric vehicle charging industry for individuals from historically marginalized communities.

Ballmer Group

$2.5 million to the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s EdRedesign Lab to establish the Fellowship for Cradle-to-Career Partnership Leaders.

Zilber Family Foundation

$1.6 million to the Bridge Project to give unrestricted cash support to low-income, pregnant people in Milwaukee and help them meet their family’s needs during the first years of their child’s life.

Up to 100 participants will each receive $1,125 in a one-time prenatal stipend, followed by $750 per month for the first 15 months of participation and $375 per month for the final 9 months of the program.

New Grant Opportunity

Newman’s Own Foundation is accepting applications for its inaugural Food Justice for Kids Prize, which will award up to $1 million to be shared among 10 organizations over two years. Priority will go to projects that advance Indigenous food equity or nutrition education and food in schools. Nonprofit groups, public schools, school districts, and federally recognized Indigenous tribes are eligible to apply for grants to support food-justice programs serving children ages 18 and under. Applications are due June 11.

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