A group of more than three hundred philanthropic leaders have called on the Trump administration to remove a citizenship question from the 2020 census....

The foundation awarded eighty-three grants totaling $17. 5 million in the areas of arts and culture, democracy, education, the environment, and gun violence prevention....

The Africa Netpreneur Prize program will award a total of $10 million over the next decade to a hundred entrepreneurs working to address the continent's most urgent challenges....

The twenty-four grants will support school-based prevention programs that equip students with the skills they need to navigate difficult choices around drug and alcohol use....

According to the 2017 Council on Foundations-Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations, private foundations and community foundations reported average returns of 15 percent and 15.1 percent....

With the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria's landfall in Puerto Rico approaching, seven new commitments were announced during the Clinton Global Initiative Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery meeting....

The cash will enable the company to bring its Apricot recommendation software to twenty cities....

The commitment will support construction of a seventeen-acre Community Care Campus in Decatur, Illinois, that promotes a multidisciplinary, multi-agency approach to addiction treatment....

Part of the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship's Bharat Inclusion Initiative, the Financial Inclusion Lab will identify and bring to scale early-stage fintech startups that are focused on helping people in India who earn between $2 and $10 a day....

The pledge from the Blavatnik Family Foundation will support five PhD fellowships a year in perpetuity, enabling young scientists to pursue investigative directions that inspire their creativity and passion....

Awarded through the foundation's Generation Moody program, the grants will support student achievement in areas such as literacy, science, technology, and math....

The five-year plan includes investing $25 million in organizations led by and for women of color and forming a 501(c)(4) fund in support of local grassroots political movements....

Inaugural grants awarded through the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley Restoration Fund will support efforts to restore, enhance, and protect more than sixty thousand acres of forest and wetland habitats in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas....

A leading Philadelphia philanthropist and civic leader, Lenfest, together with his wife, Marguerite, donated more than $1.3 billion over nearly two decades in support of the arts, education, and journalism initiatives....

The University of Maryland and Arizona State University will each receive a grant of $3 million over three years to establish a Howard Center for Investigative Journalism....

The report examines the challenges and opportunities organizations in Kresge's Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems (CREWS) initiative face in addressing the interplay of water systems, climate resilience, and equity....

With the grant, the George Washington University Health Workforce Institute will run the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program through 2026....

The new fund, a collaboration between Borealis Philanthropy and the Kellogg and Ford foundations, is designed to help build the capacity of the field of philanthropy to advance racial equity....

New commitments include $3.5 million to launch a three-month bootcamp-style program designed to help nonprofit news organizations and local independent publishers convert and retain paying subscribers by providing access to exclusive membership content and experiences....

The grants will be used to help healthcare centers in remote, underserved communities continue to provide essential services during power outages and prepare for future disasters....

According to a report from U.S. Trust Bank and the Philanthropic Initiative, discussions between advisors and high-net-worth clients about philanthropy are becoming more common but disconnects remain....

Following a successful two-year pilot at Rush, the grant will support a clinical trial in five cities of a lifestyle intervention program for patients with metabolic syndrome....

The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector....

The largest grant in the foundation's thirteen-year history will enable PIH to launch an initiative aimed at improving the health of impoverished people, with a focus on women and children, in ten countries....

The gift from alumna Marillyn A. Hewson and her husband, James, who also graduated from UA, will support the Culverhouse College of Business....

The program provides $495,000 over three years to physician-scientists who are one to five years into their first faculty appointment and ready to transition to an independent research career....

The largest community foundation in the country may have held $4.5 billion — nearly a third of its investment portfolio — in cryptocurrencies at the end of 2017....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alabama, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin....