Grants

The Greater New Orleans Foundation announced that it has awarded six grants totaling $1,311,501 to six regional nonprofit organizations who are working with families and individuals still struggling in the wake of the Gulf Coast oil spill.

The six nonprofits receiving grants in this round include Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing, Options for Independence, Saint Anna’s Episcopal Church, Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadian, Seedco Financial, and United Houma Nation.

Programs enhancing educational opportunities for youth and those providing services for the homeless and disadvantaged were among the major recipients of $5.7 million in grants to nonprofits announced by the Daniels Fund for the fourth quarter.

“These organizations set a high standard for excellence in serving people in need in Colorado,” explained Linda Childears, president and CEO of the Daniels Fund. “We are honored to support their efforts to make life better for people in communities across the state,” she added.

More than 65 nonprofit groups have been selected to receive $1.25 million in grants from the Entergy Charitable Foundation, bringing the total amount of grants awarded by the foundation during 2011 to $3,052,267.

Among the Entergy shareholder-funded grants are a $100,000 grant to Barataria Terrebonne Estuary Foundation to stem coastal land loss by restoring small isolated bay islands and the natural resources and wildlife that rely on them.

The Institute for Museum and Library Services and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the first 12 winners of a national competition to build 21st century learning labs in museums and libraries around the country. The winners — four museums and eight libraries — will receive a total of $1.2 million in grants to plan and design the labs.

The United Methodist Church will get a surge of support for its work to eliminate deaths and suffering from malaria in Africa, thanks to a $3 million supplemental grant from the United Nations Foundation.

The grant will support administrative costs for the denomination’s Imagine No Malaria campaign, an effort to raise $75 million to empower the entire African continent to achieve a sustainable victory over malaria through prevention, education, communication and treatment.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a five-year, $30 million grant to help close the digital divide among rural populations in Vietnam by providing public libraries and post offices with Internet-equipped computers.

Building on the success of a pilot initiative, the project will be implemented by Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications with $17 million in additional support from the Vietnamese government and software from Microsoft.

The Walmart Foundation announced a two-year $750,000 grant to Veterans Green Jobs. With this funding, Veterans Green Jobs will connect with 1,000 veterans through its training and employment initiatives and place many of those veterans into full-time green sector jobs. This is the latest commitment under the Walmart Foundation’s recently announced five-year, $20 million giving initiative aimed at combating the high veteran unemployment rate.

PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PepsiCo, and Water.org announced an expansion of their partnership to scale WaterCredit, a market-driven model that will provide micro loans to families throughout India. This expansion will help enable approximately 800,000 people to access safe water by March 2016. The commitment is built upon a long-standing partnership between the PepsiCo Foundation and Water.org and is made possible by an $8 million grant — the largest contribution by the foundation in its 50-year history.

GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, announced the 10 winners of its GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards.

Grants were awarded to The Healing Place of Wake County, Helping Hand Clinic Inc., Housing for New Hope Inc., Legal Clinic for the Disabled, Inc., Moore Free Care Clinic, Inc., North Carolina Therapeutic Riding Center, Inc., Phoenixville Healthcare Access Foundation, Senior PharmAssist, Inc., Support Center for Child Advocates and Water Street Health Services.

Blue Shield of California said it is preparing to hand out $20 million in grants to hospitals, medical groups and other healthcare providers who are setting up new partnerships to deliver medical care more efficiently. The nonprofit insurer named 18 groups of providers across California who will receive grants of as much as $2 million by Dec. 1.

The list of recipients includes St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.