The unrestricted gift from the estate of Bill Swindells will support a number of the foundation's priorities, including narrowing the opportunity gap for children of color and those born into poverty....

The gift from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund will support efforts to increase the diversity of the student body and create a more welcoming and inclusive campus for all....

The Opportunity Beyond Borders initiative will invest in programs and projects that equip refugees and marginalized youth with the technology and skills needed to thrive in the global digital economy....

The funds will be used to increase the number of low- and middle-income countries working with the initiative to gather accurate health data from twenty to twenty-five....

The gift from the Bakala Foundation USA — the largest ever to the Tuck School of Business — will endow immersive educational experiences for Tuck students....

Seventeen emerging and established activists and leaders will receive stipends ranging between $57,500 and $127,500 in support of full-time projects lasting twelve to eighteen months....

Through the Detroit Arts Support program, a partnership of the Kresge, Erb Family, Hudson-Webber, and DeRoy Testamentary foundations, general operating support grants ranging from $5,000 to $100,000 were awarded to seventy-four arts and culture organizations....

Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer has pledged $25 million over seven years to the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in support of pediatric cancer research....

The gift is focused on helping the Whitman School of Management attract future generations of student-athletes....

Commitments include $10 million from the Rasmuson Foundation, $5 million from Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska, $15 million from Providence Health & Services Alaska, and $10 million from Weidner Apartment Homes....

Seeded with $5 million from a number of funding partners, the Climate Disaster Fund aims to raise a total of $50 million in support of the organization's ongoing disaster-relief work....

The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute will conduct interdisciplinary explorations of kindness, including evolutionary, biological, psychological, economic, cultural, and sociological perspectives....

The gift from New School board chair and Parsons board member Joseph R. Gromek and his wife, Gail, will establish an Institute for Fashion Business....

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

As part of the restructuring, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy announced the creation of three new senior staff positions, the promotion of three staffers, and the elimination of three positions....

More than half the grants are focused on developing a better understanding of and treatments for metastatic breast cancer, which is responsible for nearly all of the forty-two thousand deaths in the United States related to breast cancer each year....

The gift from Peter Kiewit Sons', Inc. will support construction of an $85 million facility for the only College of Engineering in Nebraska....

The gift to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research will be used to launch a $10 million initiative aimed at accelerating the development of an imaging tracer that can visualize the protein alpha-synuclein in the living brain....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and Washington, D.C....

The single-largest gift ever to the school will support the Department of Architectural History and create three endowed funds for scholarly excellence and global learning experiences....

The five-year investment will support efforts to develop and scale fintech solutions that help people boost their savings, reduce their debt, and meet their long-term financial goals....

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of Pakistan in support of the Ehsaas initiative, a comprehensive effort to combat poverty and improve health, nutrition, and financial inclusion in the country....

The grant to Education Cannot Wait will support efforts to provide quality education for children affected by emergency situations and protracted crises....

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Earth-imaging company Planet, and the State of California, the Satellites for Climate Action initiative will use satellite technologies to monitor greenhouse gas emissions and turn the data into actionable information....

The gift from Stewart and Lynda Resnick will support research initiatives focused on urgent challenges in environmental sustainability....

The Sea the Future initiative will work to attach a greater cost to plastics from fossil fuels through a voluntary contribution payable on new plastics....

Twenty-six fellows working in fields ranging from evolutionary anthropology and paleoclimatology, to graphic novels and social art, to restorative justice will each receive $625,000 over five years....

According to a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy, nonprofits increasingly are relying on major donors for support....