Following an internal investigation of its workplace culture and the departure or resignation of several senior executives, including CEO Mark Tercek, the environmental organization has appointed board member and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell as interim CEO....

The gift will support ongoing efforts at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, which draws inspiration from nature's design principles and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration among scientists, engineers, and industry experts....

Inaugural grants totaling $1.2 million from the REACH (Racial Equity to Accelerate Change) Fund were awarded to practitioners working to help nonprofits dismantle institutional racism, build race-conscious organizations, and design and lead internal and external strategy, policy, and cultural change....

Each of the thirty-four nonprofit and for-profit entrepreneurs will receive unrestricted seed funding of up to $90,000 over two years in support of their efforts to address pressing social and environmental injustices....

The gift includes $10 million from Atrium Health, $10 million from Fifth Third Bank, and three acres of privately owned land donated by David and Scott Brooks....

Unrestricted gifts were awarded to dance companies, professional theater training programs, nonprofit theaters, and service agencies....

The gift from Bill and Joanne Conway, the largest single gift in the university's history, will help fund construction of a nursing and sciences building....

The Beyond Carbon campaign will advocate for state and local policy changes, additional coal plant closures, and a stop to the building of new gas plants....

Through the program, fellows receive a $10,000 scholarship, additional project support of up to $10,000, personalized mentorship, and opportunities to participate in transnational community-building modules....

With the aim of investing in big ideas that can help residents of Northeast Ohio who are stranded economically by geography, the funders will provide up to $1 million over three years in support of fifteen pilot projects that test practical solutions to eliminating what they call the "transportation paradox"....

To be located in the Obama Presidential Center, the 5,000-square-foot library will allow residents and visitors to explore their interests through multimedia collections and flexible-use spaces for studying, reading, community programming, and events....

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

With a focus on philanthropy's support for Latinx populations in the U.S. and its territories, LATINXFunders is designed to help the sector more accurately target resources and support long- and short-term strategies designed to build prosperity for all Latinx communities....

The grant from global healthcare company GSK is focused on helping the organization maximize the impact of its work, including efforts to mobilize rapid responses to assist children impacted by natural disasters, strengthen the capacity and efficiency of volunteers and staff, and boost the organization's efficiency through improved data systems....

The five-year commitment will support efforts to integrate quality HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria services with prenatal and postnatal care in several African countries....

The gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation will support construction of a new research facility in downtown Rochester....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Oklahoma....

The gift to the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine at Northwell Health's Feinstein Institute for Medical Research will help the school provide students with stipends and recruit talent....

An analysis by the Chronicle of Philanthropy of 860 nonprofits that raise at least $35 million annually from private funders found that annual compensation for "key" employees at hospitals and medical centers averaged $750,550, compared with $232,671 for those at religious nonprofits....

The grant will support the work of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network, which collects and analyzes data that is used to help identify the causes of death among children under the age of 5....

The gift from the late William McCall Vickery, a founding member of the museum’s board, will establish a fund for the maintenance and improvement of the museum’s buildings, grounds, and collections....

The Mark Foundation Center for Immunotherapy, Immune Signaling, and Radiation will bring together basic scientists and clinical researchers to study how the signaling pathways elicited by radiation therapy can be exploited therapeutically....

According to a report from the Building Movement Project, executives of color reported challenges and frustrations at a higher rate than their white peers....

A component of the company's efforts to address housing affordability, financial health, and small business growth in underserved communities, the commitment will support initiatives in the areas of homelessness, available and affordable rentals, transitional housing, and home ownership....

According to a study commissioned by Independent Sector, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017 could reduce charitable giving by $19.1 billion per year through 2025....

The gift from art collector Christian Keesee, founder of the Brett Weston Archive, spans five decades of Weston's career, from 1934 to 1985, with many of the photographs featuring his trademark close-ups and abstracted details reduced to pure form....

The gift from the Peter Gilgan Foundation — the largest in the hospital's 144-year history — will support a campus redevelopment project that includes two new buildings....

The gift from Henry and Susan Samueli — the largest since the engineering school's founding in 1945 — will support an expansion project that includes plans to enroll at least seven thousand undergraduate and graduate students by 2028....