Wells Fargo Commits Up to $60 Million for Re-Entry Programs for Former Prisoners

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Wells Fargo Bank

Up to $60 million to Concordance to help previously incarcerated people successfully re-enter their communities by developing job skills and personal-finance plans, accessing treatment for substance abuse or mental-health issues, and more.

The organization will use the grant to open 40 new program centers over the next eight years.

Lustgarten Foundation

$23 million to 17 researchers at 13 institutions to back pancreatic-cancer research, early detection, new drug development, and personalized medicine.

Walther Cancer Foundation

$10 million challenge grant to Riley Children’s Foundation to develop new treatments for pediatric cancers.

The foundation will match all gifts, dollar for dollar, from donors who establish endowed children’s cancer research funds at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Pew Charitable Trusts

$6.6 million to five nonprofit organizations that are improving access to mental- and behavioral-health services for children and teens in the Philadelphia region, particularly within marginalized communities.

The largest grant of $4 million over five years went to the Children’s Crisis Treatment Center to expand its services throughout the region and create an outpatient clinic in North Philadelphia that will partner with its school- and community-based programs and acute-treatment facility.

Genentech

$6 million commitment to 10 community-based organizations for their efforts to advance health equity and improve well-being in their communities.

Education Cannot Wait

$5 million to Save the Children and Unicef to provide education programs to 86,000 displaced and refugee school-aged children who are currently living in the West Darfur and White Nile areas of Sudan.

Hevolution Foundation

$5 million to Impetus Grants, a foundation that makes grants to back aging-related research to increase human lifespans.

Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation

$4 million challenge grant to Karamu House to build additional facilities to advance racial equity and inclusion through arts programs for residents of Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood.

Verizon

$4 million to the National 4-H Council to continue the 4-H Tech Changemakers program, which deploys teenagers to teach adults digital job skills that promote work-force development in rural communities and communities of color.

Ballmer Group

$2.7 million to the Detroit Public Schools Community District to create 12 health hubs that will provide comprehensive health services to students and their families within their local schools.

The district also received $750,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, $550,000 from the Kresge Foundation, and $500,000 from the Children’s Foundation to back the project.

New York Women’s Foundation

$2.6 million to 34 organizations that focus on gender, economic, and reproductive equity.

Chicago Beyond

$1.6 million to Centro Sanar, an organization that provides bilingual and bicultural mental-health services for Latino communities on the southwest side of Chicago.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation

$1 million to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to continue its efforts to provide free books to children from birth to age 5.

Bernard Osher Foundation

$1 million to Clark Atlanta University to endow scholarships for nontraditional undergraduate students who have left school for more than five years and are returning to complete their degrees.

New Grant Opportunities

The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation is accepting proposals from its Warm Bellies, Warm Hearts program, which will make grants of up to $25,000 each to organizations that are providing Thanksgiving meals to individuals and families in need in the New York metropolitan area. Nonprofit organizations must be located in New York City, Westchester County, N.Y., or Fairfield County, Conn. Proposals are due August 21.

The Ms. Foundation for Women is accepting applications for $1 million in grants through its Activist Collaboration and Care Fund. This year, the program will issue grants of $15,000 to $25,000 each for general operating support to organizations that are led by and serve trans and cis women and girls of color as well as nonbinary people of color to support their collaboration efforts. Proposals are due August 25.

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