News about grants, gifts
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation donated US$ 25 million to Michigan State University to expand public health in Flint, Michigan. The grant will bolster MSU’s public health program in Flint, adding 18 tenure-track faculty members, along with other support.
The European Union contributed US$ 3.5 million to the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service to support transport of thousands of aid workers to several hard-to-reach locations across West and Central Africa.
The NFL Foundation is awarding a variety of organizations in 30 locales with a total of US$ 6 million to build or refurbish neighborhood football fields. The awards are the most in a single year since the NFL Foundation/LISC Grassroots Field Grant Program began in 1998, and bring the program’s total commitment to US$ 58 million, resulting in the creation or refurbishment of 416 fields nationwide.
The United Nations World Food Programme received a contribution of DKK 28.4 million from the Government of Denmark for Scaling Up Anticipatory Action for Food Security to reduce the effects of predictable climate hazards before they materialize in the Horn of Africa.
The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center received a US$ 25 million gift from an anonymous donor, to establish the UNC Lineberger Center for Triple Negative Breast Cancer. The gift, the largest in donation in the Center’s history, will allow for more research into a highly aggressive breast cancer that disproportionately affects Black, Latina and young women.
The Clara Lionel Foundation donated US$ 15 million to 18 climate justice organizations doing work in seven Caribbean nations and the United States. They include the Climate Justice Alliance, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the Movement for Black Lives.
News about people, groups
Human Appeal has delivered and installed two on-site oxygen generators to support medical teams dealing with the recent COVID-19 surge in Northern Syria. The generators will begin service fully free of charge by February 1st, providing enough oxygen combined for 212,160 patients.
New escalation in the ongoing conflict in the Djugu territory of Ituri province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has pushed vulnerable people already displaced by the conflict to the brink. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières is scaling up its response in the area to meet the massive and growing humanitarian needs.
The Gates Foundation appointed Zimbabwean billionaire businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa, London School of Economics Director Minouche Shafik, The Bridgespan Group’s co-founder and co-chair Thomas J. Tierney, and Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman to its board of trustees.
The International Committee of the Red Cross made its first delivery of medical supplies since last September into Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, Ethiopia. The urgently needed supplies, including essential drugs, will be distributed to the region’s health facilities.
The African Union Mission in Somalia is holding a weeklong asset management technical training program for senior and mid-level officers of the Somali Police Force in Mogadishu. The program, funded by the Joint Police Programme, is to help participants develop effective and efficient control and management skills for all Somali Police assets.
UNICEF deployed staff and life-saving supplies for children and families affected by Tropical Storm Ana, which made landfall in central and northern Mozambique on January 24th.
In January 2022, the first part of the Czech “tied financial donation” for Ethiopia was installed in the Abebech Gobena Hospital in Addis Ababa. Czech companies Linet, TSE, SMT and MZ Liberec provided medical equipment for modern delivery and neonatal ICU rooms. The representatives of MZ Liberec conducted the installation and training of the personnel at the hospital.
News about opportunities, initiatives
Heirs of Pablo Picasso are selling 1,010 digital art pieces of one of his ceramic works that has never before been seen publicly. Some of the proceeds from the sale of the non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, will be donated — one portion to a charity that aims to help overcome a shortage of nurses, and another to a nongovernmental organization that wants to help reduce carbon in the atmosphere.
Registration is now open for Social Current’s 2022 slate of programs for individuals and organizations seeking to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in support of a more equitable society for all.
Wolfe’s Neck Farm Foundation is set to receive a $2.5 million loan from the federal government to launch their Smith Center for Education and Research, an education, training and research facility.
New Emergency Food and Shelter Program funding through the United Way of Rhode Island will provide US$ 2 million in federal funding to help Rhode Island charitable organizations assist people experiencing homelessness this winter. The money can be used to supplement food and shelter programs run by local nonprofits and social service organizations.
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