The California Endowment (Los Angeles, CA)

The California Endowment approved a 10-year, $225 million pledge of funding support for Black-led organizing, activism, and advocacy in California. The funding is a long-term commitment by The California Endowment to build and strengthen Black-Led organizations and organizing throughout the State of California. While there will be an immediate infusion of one-time funding support, the Endowment has pledged a decade-long commitment of support to help sustain funding for organizations who are working to reimagine systems built on structural inequality and racism.

The 10-year pledge of support builds upon existing efforts by the Endowment to fund community organizing and activism in African American-led organizations across California, with a projected $50 million dollar increase in support in the coming decade.

The Endowment also announced the immediate deployment of $5 million in resources to Black-led groups engaged in health-related racial justice battles now, such as criminal justice, juvenile justice, and policing reform efforts.

Contact: Jeff Okey at 213.928.8622.

George Family Foundation (Minneapolis, MN)

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in support of efforts for racial justice following the death of George Floyd, the George Family Foundation expanded its grantmaking by $640,000 to include several one-time emergency grants to select organizations. Combined with $1.76 million in its regular grantmaking round, the foundation has awarded a total of $2.4 million to more than 40 organizations.

The grants approved include:

  • Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health—to support The Integrator Blog project over the next three years. ($22,500)
  • Academy for Integrative Health & Medicine—to support partial scholarships for the George Fellows program to benefit Minnesota practitioners who serve people in under-invested communities to become fully certified as integrative medicine practitioners. ($50,000)
  • Auburn Theological Seminary—to support the Sojourner Truth Leadership Circle: Expanding our Reach Project. ($75,000)
  • Duke University—to support the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Annual Fund for Financial Aid program. ($100,000)
  • Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing—to support general operations and the HH-DNP 2.0 Project. ($70,000)
  • Education Opens Doors—to support general operations. ($40,000)
  • Faith in Public Life—to support general operations, as well as voter protection and accurate census efforts for 2020. ($50,000)
  • Family Tree Clinic—to create an integrative health care model at the clinic. ($40,000)
  • Georgia Tech Foundation—to support the Women in Engineering Leadership program. ($60,000)
  • Georgia Tech Foundation—to support the ISyE George Family Fellowship Leadership program. ($84,000)
  • Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas—to support STEM programming at the STEM Center for Excellence and for mental wellness response due to COVID-19 on behalf of the Next Generation Fund. ($45,000)
  • Guthrie Theater—to support the 2020-2021 annual fund. ($25,000)
  • Institute for Professional Education—to support The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine special issue on Effectiveness, Implementation, and Dissemination Research in Integrative Health. ($40,000)
  • Juxtaposition Arts—to support general operations on behalf of the Next Generation Fund. ($20,000)
  • Mindful Life Project—to support capacity building on behalf of the Next Generation Fund. ($20,000)
  • Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation—to support the youth environmental education programs. ($20,000)
  • Minnesota Public Radio—to support The Good Leader Project. ($50,000)
  • North Texas Food Bank—to support general operations. ($37,500)
  • The On Being Project—to support Civil Conversations & Social Healing Initiative. ($300,000)
  • Page Education Foundation—to support general operations. ($20,000)
  • Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas—to support general operations. ($20,000)
  • Ripple Effect Images—to support general operations. ($30,000)
  • The Sanneh Foundation—to support general operations. ($60,000)
  • Sigma Chi Foundation—to support the Sigma Chi Online program. ($100,000)
  • Sojourners—to support general operations and 2020 election projects. ($200,000)
  • Tergar International—to support general operations. ($10,000)
  • Tides Center—to support Integrative Medicine for the Underserved. ($30,000)
  • United States of Care—to support general operations and its internship and fellowship programs. ($100,000)
  • Voyageur Outward Bound School—to support the Urban Youth Outward Bound program. ($45,000)

The list of emergency fund grants given as of June 30, 2020:

  • Allina Office of Philanthropy—to support the Caring for Caregivers Fund due to COVID-19. ($10,000)
  • Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative—to support general operations due to COVID-19. ($15,000)
  • Bonton Farms (The Dallas Foundation)—to support general operations due to COVID-19. ($25,000)
  • Breck School—to support the Breck Family Tuition Relief Fund due to COVID-19. ($35,000)
  • CLUES— to support housing, employment, and food access and to address the systemic racial inequities experienced by Latinx communities and other communities of color. ($25,000)
  • Eagle Valley Community Foundation—to support The Community Market COVID-19 Appeal Fund. ($10,000)
  • Eagle Valley Land Trust—to support the Land & Rivers Fund to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19. ($35,000)
  • Family Tree Clinic—to support the telehealth program launched to provide patient care due to limited clinical visits caused by COVID-19. ($15,000)
  • Healing Justice Foundation—to support community healing in the midst of COVID-19 and ongoing racial injustice. ($25,000)
  • Lake Street Council—for the We Love Lake Street Recovery Fund to rebuild the Lake Street corridor following the destruction incited by the killing of George Floyd. ($25,000)
  • Marnita’s Table—to further online convenings with national and local audiences to create dialogues on racial inequities following the killing of George Floyd. ($25,000)
  • North Texas Food Bank—to support general operations due to COVID-19. ($25,000)
  • Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas—to support general operations due to COVID-19. ($10,000)
  • Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation—to support the Minnesota Disaster Recovery Fund due to COVID-19. ($100,000)
  • Second Harvest Heartland—to support emergency food efforts due to COVID-19. ($50,000)
  • The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul—to support the “Women In Blue” film due to the killing of George Floyd. ($10,000)
  • The Minneapolis Foundation—to support the OneMpls COVID-19 Response Fund. ($100,000)
  • YMCA George Wellbeing Center—to support the rapid deployment for online well-being programs due to COVID-19. ($100,000)

Contact: Kate Lilja Lohnes at 952.893.7140 or kate@lilja.com.

Paso del Norte Health Foundation (El Paso, TX)

The Paso del Norte Health Foundation awarded 15 grants totaling more than $1.8 million under the Healthy Eating and Active Living Priority Area – HEAL Initiative. The purpose of the HEAL initiative is to make healthy eating and active living the easy choice for youth and their families.

Funded organizations include:

  • Arbol de Vida—to provide nutritious meals and physical activities to children in Rancho Anapra and Loma de Poleo in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. ($139,709.35)
  • Border Partners —to establish school greenhouses, maintain community gardens and provide materials to support home gardeners, teach nutrition, exercise, and gardening classes, provide nutritious lunches to three schools and seniors, and maintain fitness facilities and sports leagues in Palomas, Mexico. ($111,364)
  • Canutillo Independent School District—to train elementary and middle school teachers and implement the evidence-based CATCH program to improve nutrition and physical activity among 4,300 students in Canutillo, Texas. ($49,555)
  • Ciudadanos Comprometidos con la Paz, A.C.—to provide healthy meals, offer physical activities and nutrition education to 520 children, establish a school garden and gardening club, and teach portion control and preparation of healthy foods to families in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. ($264,550)
  • Common Threads—to provide cooking and nutrition classes for students and families in Tornillo, Texas. ($36,158)
  • El Pasoans Fighting Hunger—to educate and provide support to 10 food pantries to convert to client-choice models to increase healthy food options in El Paso, Texas. ($110,734)
  • Families and Youth, Inc.—to expand after-school meal and tutoring programs to include nutrition education and physical activities to students in four Gadsden Independent School District elementary schools in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. ($92,846.18)
  • Fundación Pedro Zaragoza Vizcarra A.C.—to provide nutrition and gardening education and physical activities to students in three elementary schools in Cuidad Juárez, Mexico. ($52,160.46)
  • Girls on the Run El Paso—to implement an evidenced-based physical activity, positive youth development program for 180 elementary and middle school girls in El Paso, Texas. ($11,550)
  • Kelly Memorial Food Pantry—to assist low-income, food insecure adults in achieving goals towards a more independent and food secure life in El Paso, Texas. ($196,350)
  • New Mexico State University Foundation, Inc.—to train six teachers to implement the evidence-based Youth on the Move approach and improve physical activity in 1,250 middle school students in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. ($204,371.16)
  • Organizacion Popular Independiente, A.C.—to implement a meal program that includes the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables and 60-minutes of physical activity five days a week for children under age seven in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. ($54,454.59)
  • Otero Soil and Water Conservation District—to create a scavenger hunt-style trail and related promotional materials in a neighborhood park to encourage families to be active in Alamogordo, New Mexico. ($9,865)
  • Texas A&M University—to provide promotora-led direct service healthy eating classes and physical activity opportunities to intergenerational families living in colonia communities of Far East El Paso County and Hudspeth County, Texas. ($208,658)
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston—to build capacity to provide obesity management services at La Clinica de Familia Clinic in Chaparral, New Mexico. ($318,801)

Contact: Jana Renner at 915.218.2616 or jrenner@pdnfoundation.org.

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