Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $75 Million for the Mental-Health Center at Columbia U.

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

$75 million to Columbia University to establish the Center for Precision Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The new center will be a joint effort of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons’ Department of Psychiatry and Columbia’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.

Ballmer Group and Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

$30 million to the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Detroit Drives Degrees Community College Collaborative, which will work with seven community colleges in southeast Michigan to prepare students for high-paying, in-demand jobs with employers in the Detroit region.

JPMorgan Chase

$15 million to eight nonprofit groups through its Annual Challenge to back programs in economic development for marginalized groups.

The grants announced to date are $3.5 million to the Congress Heights Community Training and Development Corporation to develop a career and skills-building incubator for Black female entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C.; $3 million to the Columbus Urban League to establish its Accelerate Her economic-empowerment program for Black women; $2.3 million to the Chicago Solidarity Collective to expand worker-owned cooperatives; $2.2 million to Chicago Commons to advance job skills and wealth building for women of color; and $1.9 million to Neighborhood Housing Services of Brooklyn to help Black women entrepreneurs in central Brooklyn learn how to invest in real estate and preserve affordable housing in the borough.

Bill and Doris Scharpf Foundation

$12.5 million over five years to Stephens College’s School of Health Sciences, which will be renamed for Doris Spiegelberg.

Doris Spiegelberg Scharpf attended the college from 1940 to 1942, when it was a two-year institution. The Scharpfs were early investors in the athleticwear company Nike. She died in 2019 at age 95; Bill Scharpf died in 2001.

X Prize

$11 million to create the X Prize Wildfire, which will make grants to teams that develop high-tech capabilities to detect, contain, and extinguish extreme wildfire events.

Home Depot Foundation

$10.4 million to U.S.VETS, the Housing Assistance Council, and other nonprofit groups to build more than 750 new housing units for military veterans who are at risk for homelessness.

Weingart Foundation

$7.6 million to 43 nonprofit groups that advance racial and economic equity in Southern California.

More than half of the grants in this round will provide unrestricted operating support to organizations that serve historically marginalized communities in Southern California.

Wawa Foundation

$6.2 million to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to make improvements to its Family Resource Center and coffee cart for hospital volunteers, employees, patient families, and visitors.

Rite Aid Healthy Futures

$4.5 million to 42 children’s hospitals across the United States for community programs that address hunger and food insecurity.

Waverley Street Foundation

$4 million over two years to the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and the City University of New York to establish the NYC Climate Justice Hub, which will work with local leaders from communities of color.

Community Foundation of Elkhart County

$3.4 million to nonprofit organizations in Indiana’s Elkhart County that work in the areas of children and families, career pathways, and outdoor trail networks.

The largest grant of $1 million went to Goshen College toward its capital campaign for nursing and health sciences.

Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

$2.8 million in unrestricted grants to 50 museums across the United States.

The museums will also each receive works on paper, valued at $16 million, by the artist Ellsworth Kelly.

Mellon Foundation

$1.5 million to the Project for Empty Space to expand its Artist in Residence Program and increase its annual cash awards from $2,500 to $10,000 per year.

Wegmans Family Foundation

$1.5 million to Niagara University’s Holzschuh College of Business Administration to establish the Robert B. Wegman Endowed Director of Food Industry Innovation and Supply Chain Excellence.

Robert Wegman, who graduated from the university in 1941 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, spent 56 years as president of the Wegman’s retail chain of supermarkets, which his father and uncle founded in 1930. He died in 2006.

New Grant Opportunity

If, a Foundation for Radical Possibility is accepting proposals for grants to organizations that are advancing racial equity, community organizing or community engagement, and advocacy to benefit low-income patients, workers, community members, immigrants, and others in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The program will also make grants to community-based organizations and nonprofits to strengthen racial equity at the local, state, and regional levels. Grant awards of $15,000 to $20,000 will be awarded over two years. Applicants must have boards and staff that are at least 50 percent people of color. Proposals are due on June 30.

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