Two Mississippi nonprofits have each received a $50,000 award from the Nissan Foundation for their community-building campaigns.
As part of its initiative to deliver a share of $1.2 million to 44 nonprofits across the nation, Nissan has granted the funds to the following Magnolia State organizations for their efforts to provide educational opportunities to youth:
- Foundation for Mississippi History — Nissan awarded the money to the nonprofit to support its “Two Mississippi Museums School Visits Programs” allowing students across the state to learn more about the state’s roots through field trips at the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
- GRAMMY Museum Mississippi — the major automobile producer’s foundation is further funding the museum’s “Soul of the Movement Education Program,” a free exploration of history through music for K-6 grade students in Mississippi.
“In the 32 years since the Nissan Foundation was created, it has helped organizations – big and small – develop and grow programming designed to increase understanding and acceptance of what makes us different,” Chandra Vasser, President of the Nissan Foundation and Nissan’s first Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, said. “It’s an honor to uplift the important work of our grantees who are bettering our world by providing safe spaces to explore our similarities while celebrating our differences.”
The Nissan Foundation has awarded approximately $17 million to more than 150 nonprofits since its founding in 1992. The Nissan Foundation was created as a direct response to the civil unrest that followed the Rodney King trial verdict. At that time, Nissan’s then-U.S. sales headquarters was based just blocks from the riot’s epicenter in Los Angeles, California.
A full list of projects being supported by the foundation’s latest round of funding can be found here.
