Complex sentence: The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, adhering to the grant requirement that he have a partner, he chose poet Victor Hernández Cruz, now a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Split into simpler sentences: The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed. Adhering to the grant's requirement that he have a partner, Reed chose poet Victor Hernández Cruz, now a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.