The NBA Foundation has announced grants totaling $11 million in support of efforts to create employment opportunities, further career advancement, and drive economic empowerment for Black youth.

In the fourth round of grantmaking since its launch in August 2020, the foundation awarded grants to thirty-eight nonprofits working to provide skills training, mentorship, coaching, and pipeline development for high school, college-age, job-ready, and mid-career individuals. Recipients include A Call to Men, which educates men about healthy, respectful manhood and works to prevent all forms of gender-based violence; Philadelphia-based Coded by Kids, which provides underrepresented youth with software development, data science, and user experience design skills and prepares them to succeed as tech and innovation leaders; Lawrence Hall, a community-based social agency in Chicago focused on addressing the effects of childhood trauma and promoting long-term healing and opportunities; the National Black MBA Association, which works to create educational, wealth building, and growth opportunities for historically underrepresented individuals; and Son of a Saint, which aims to transform the lives of fatherless boys in Greater New Orleans through mentorship, emotional support, development of life skills, exposure to constructive experiences, and formation of positive, lasting peer-to-peer relationships.

To date, the foundation has awarded seventy-eight grants totaling $22 million.

“As we near the conclusion of the NBA Foundation’s first year of grant-making, we’re excited to announce our latest round of awards to thirty-eight new, deserving nonprofit organizations,” said NBA Foundation executive director Greg Taylor. “We are confident that our support will create short- and long-term advancement opportunities for these organizations and the communities that they serve.”

For a complete list of grant recipients, see the NBA Foundation website.

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