10 universities receive $50 million for blockchain and cryptocurrency institutes
Here are notable new grant awards rounded up Chronicle:
Algorand Foundation
$50 million over five years to 10 universities through the Algorand Centers of Excellence Program, which will create institutes that house interdisciplinary research, college-level courses and other programs in blockchain and cryptocurrency.
The grant recipients are Carnegie Mellon University; Monash University, in Australia; Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore; Purdue University; Roma Tre University, in Italy; the Technical University of Munich, in Germany; University of California at Berkeley; University of Cape Town, in South Africa; University of Florida; and Yale University.
Johnson & Johnson Foundation and Skoll Foundation
$25 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to support the Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund, which will employ more health workers in up to 10 African countries.
NBA Foundation
20 million dollars for 40 grants. The grants came as part of the NBA’s 2020 pledge to distribute $300 million over 10 years to increase economic opportunity and empowerment among young black people ages 14 to 24.
Cargill
$10 million to the World Food Program USA to strengthen the United Nations World Food Program’s efforts to address the global hunger crisis, particularly in response to the Ukrainian war.
Cummings Foundation
$10 million to Salem State University’s School of Education to support its programs to diversify and strengthen the pipeline of educators.
The grant includes support for the Educator-Scholars of Color project; a new center for professional learning to increase the retention of teachers and school administrators, including the development of instructional and leadership practices focused on anti-racism and equity; and new pathways to emergency licensure for hundreds of Massachusetts teachers.
Gilead Sciences
$5 million to create the Global Monkeypox Outbreak Emergency Fund, which will provide grants of up to $50,000 to the biopharmaceutical company’s existing grantees located in regions with active monkeypox outbreaks.
The grantees are GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Black Justice Coalition, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and NMAC.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$4.4 million to the National Park Foundation to renovate the visitor center and improve tribal history education programs at Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in Alaska.
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation
$3.25 million to the Cleveland Public Library. Of the total, $3 million will be used to create a digital innovation center for adults and seniors at the library’s branch in Glenville, Ohio. The remaining $250,000 will enable the Cleveland Public Library Foundation to add a fundraising position to its staff.
AA Van Elslander Foundation
$2 million to Henry Ford Health to establish an endowment for the Philip C. Hessburg, MD/Art Van Elslander Chair in Ophthalmic Research, which will support educational research in vision at Henry Ford Health at the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology.
The chair is named in part after the institute’s medical director, Philip Hessburg, who helped found the research organization in 1972. Art Van Elslander, the owner of Art Van Furniture, died in 2018.
Project for the decolonization of wealth
$2 million to 20 organizations with leaders who are Black, Indigenous or People of Color through the #Case4Reparations program.
The grants came from Liberated Capital, the organization’s donor community and funding vehicle that provides unrestricted grants of money or land to communities of color.
The Boeing Company
$1 million to the International African American Museum to provide free admission to the museum for underserved children, as well as support the museum’s mission and operations in its first year.
Sony Corporation of America
$1 million to Unicef to continue its Learning Passport program, which provides portable online and offline educational resources to help millions of Ukrainian children and their families access education, mental health content, and social-emotional learning.
New subsidy option
The Gerber Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry regarding grants worth up to $350,000 each over three years for research on pediatric health, pediatric nutrition, and the effects of environmental hazards on children under 3 years of age. Concept papers must be delivered on 15 November.
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