Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Education Cannot Wait
$500 million over four years for its efforts to continue the education of up to 5 million school-aged refugee children worldwide.
As part of this commitment, the organization gave $2 million to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees for its work in Egypt to serve children and teachers who have fled the war in Sudan.
Lilly Endowment
$145.8 million to six colleges and universities in Indiana for community-development projects that aim to improve the quality of life for residents who live near the institutions.
In a separate grant, the foundation gave $32 million to Belmont University for a new nationwide program to create and curate new works of art, music, and performances about the Christian faith.
The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
$48 million through Press Forward, a collaborative grant-making program announced earlier this year to strengthen local news.
Included in this total, the foundation has given $32.5 million to seed a fund at the Miami Foundation that will provide a way for individual donors to support the effort.
The MacArthur Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
Weld Trust
$25 million to the University of Northern Colorado to help establish its College of Osteopathic Medicine and train more primary-care doctors, particularly those who will practice in rural areas.
Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas
$21 million over three years to 20 organizations to expand access to reliable, low-cost internet service in communities across Texas and help people in need apply online for public benefits.
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
$19.9 million to 146 organizations to promote democracy, public education, environmental justice, and social and economic equity in North Carolina.
Almost three-quarters of the grants are for general operating support.
Otto Bremer Trust
$14.9 million in grants to organizations that are working to improve quality of life for residents of Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Negaunee Foundation
$14 million to Chicago Scots toward its capital campaign to renovate the Scottish Home at Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care for low-income older adults in need of long-term care.
1994 Charles B. Degenstein Foundation
$10 million to Susquehanna University to renovate and expand its Charles B. Degenstein Campus Center.
The center opened in 1982 following a gift from Degenstein, who was an executive at the Weis Markets chain of supermarkets in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. He died in 1998.
New Balance Athletics
$10 million commitment to the University of Massachusetts at Boston to establish the New Balance Institute for Innovative Leadership in Sport.
Pivot
$7 million to 14 organizations for their efforts to advance racial justice and build political power among communities of color in California.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$4.8 million to CFLeads to continue its program that helps community foundations lead economic-mobility projects in their regions.
Jerome L. Greene Foundation
$3 million to the Irish Arts Center to name its new theater, which will house a variety of performing and visual arts.
John A. Hartford Foundation
$1.9 million over 3 years to the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists for a program to help older adults and their caregivers better manage their medications.
Salesforce and the Wells Fargo Foundation
$1.15 million to RE-volv to back its programs to finance solar projects at nonprofit groups, lead community-education events about the adoption of solar power, and train new leaders in clean energy leaders over the next two years.
Salesforce gave $850,000 and the Wells Fargo Foundation donated $300,000.
Synovus Bank
$1 million to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to expand its prevention services for children in rural areas of Georgia, in particular its programs that prevent obesity, injury, illness, and behavioral- and mental-health challenges.
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