Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$1.4 billion over four years to help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia prepare for the immediate and long-term effects of climate change on their access to food and their primary sources of income.
This commitment, along with several others listed below, was announced at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, taking place this week in Egypt.
13 Grant Makers
$780 million to Forests, People, Climate to reverse tropical deforestation, support Indigenous and local communities, advance policies that converse forests, and promote sustainable development by 2030.
The 13 grant makers that seeded the fund are the Ballmer Group, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the Climate and Land Use Alliance, the ClimateWorks Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Good Energies, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Grantham Foundation, Instituto Arapyaú, the Klarman Family Foundation, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Bezos Earth Fund
$50 million to the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative and its efforts to restore forests in the Congo’s Rusizi Basin and Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.
Clarios Foundation
$20 million commitment to Unicef to back its Healthy Environments for Healthy Children program, which mitigates the effects of climate change and pollution on children’s health across 14 countries.
Clarios is a Milwaukee company that makes batteries for plug-in hybrids, hybrids, and electric vehicles.
Harold W. McGraw Jr. Family Foundation
$16.3 million to the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.
Of the total, $10 million will create the McGraw Center for Educational Leadership. The remaining $6.3 million will bolster the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education.
Lilly Endowment
$15.2 million to the Council of Independent Colleges to continue the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education.
The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
Huntsman Mental Health Institute
$15 million to the Ad Council for its national campaign to encourage people in the United States, particularly within marginalized communities, to seek mental-health treatment for anxiety and depression.
Vital Strategies
$15 million to Reset Alcohol, its new program to advance policies to reduce alcohol-related deaths and social harm worldwide, particularly among young adults.
The program is a collaboration with Movendi International, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance, the Non-Communicable Disease Alliance, and the World Health Organization.
Global Methane Hub
$10 million to back organizations worldwide that are working to reduce methane emissions.
The grants include $3 million to the Rocky Mountain Institute, Clean Air Task Force, and Carbon Mapper to collaborate on an open-source platform to collect and analyze data on methane in the waste sector to create national, state, and municipal policies and decisions in the finance industry.
Kislak Family Foundation
$10 million to the Library of Congress to create a new gallery about the native societies of the Americas. The exhibition, which will feature documents, maps, paintings, and other artifacts from the Aztec, Inca, Maya, and Olmec cultures, is expected to open in 2024.
Jay Kislak, who died in 2018, donated nearly 4,000 Indigenous artifacts from his personal collection to the Library of Congress in 2004.
Yass Foundation for Education
$9 million to the National Constitution Center and Khan Academy to offer a free online course for high-school students on the civic principles of the Constitution.
American Express
$5.4 million pledge to organizations that are helping cities and coastal communities develop resilience plans to protect against climate-related natural disasters.
The recipients are the Ocean Conservancy, the Regional Plan Association, Resilient Cities Catalyst, and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network.
Wyss Foundation
$3.1 million to Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health for the Hansjörg Wyss Wellness Center, a clinic that will deliver health care and social services to Philadelphia’s immigrant and refugee communities.
Rockefeller Foundation
$3 million to Global.health, an open-source platform for data about public health, to expand its international partnerships and collaborate on disease prevention, surveillance, and an early-warning system for pandemics.
MetLife Foundation
$2.7 million over three years to Syracuse University’s Lender Center for Social Justice for research on ways to address the racial wealth gap and work with social-justice leaders to achieve equity in economic development.
Orthopedic Foundation for Animals
$1.5 million to the University of Missouri to pay for the salary of the director of the Canine Molecular Genetics Laboratory within the university’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The lab conducts approximately 40 different DNA tests to identify the genes that cause recessive diseases in dogs.
Delta Air Lines Foundation
$1 million to Agnes Scott College to back its Global Journeys program that enables every first-year student at the college to travel abroad on college-sponsored, faculty-led trips.
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