The gift will give the dean flexible resources to pursue the school's academic goals and support activities associated with the Oregon Bach Festival....

The bequest from Capt. William L. Bullard ('59) — the largest gift in the college's history — is the lead gift in a $20 million fundraising campaign in support of scholarship funds at the school....

Focused in the areas of health care, workforce development, and the transition to civilian life, the grants will help organizations bridge the gap between government benefits and services and veterans' needs....

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

The gift from alumna Stacey Nicholas will support Women in Engineering at UCLA, a program that provides mentorship, leadership training, research opportunities, and industry outreach programs for women students who plan to pursue a career in engineering....

Slated for completion in 2020, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Honolulu Career and Learning Center will provide educational services and vocational opportunities to more than six thousand individuals annually....

The funds will enable the Jefferson Education Exchange to launch an effort, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education's Institution of Education Services, aimed at expanding the role of educators in making decisions about education technology....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin....

The data brief from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that while 86 percent of foster care children nationwide were placed in families in 2017, up from 81 percent in 2007, disparities by age and race/ethnicity persist....

The latest gift from the foundation boosts its support for the Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative to $150 million since 2005....

Gifts of $5 million each from Elaine Langone, Katharine Rayner, Emilia Saint-Amand Krimendahl, and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation will help the organization, already the world's largest nonprofit animal hospital, continue to meet the demand for its services and programming....

The gifts from BB&T, SunTrust Banks, and the SunTrust Foundation will be used to increase the supply of affordable housing units in North Carolina's Mecklenburg County, which faces a shortage of more than thirty thousand such units....

Called Lyft City Works, the initiative has been launched in Los Angeles, with a focus on three priorities — providing transportation for all Angelenos, developing a more robust transportation infrastructure for the region, and contributing to a clean energy future....

The gift will fund competitive biomedical research grants as well as support the renovation at UCLA Medical Plaza, one of Southern California's busiest outpatient care centers....

As the first private foundation signatory to ABFE's Diversity in Foundation Asset Management Pledge, the foundation has committed to having 25 percent of its U.S. assets under management invested by female and diverse-owned firms by 2025....

Rimel, who has been at Pew for thirty-six years, including five as executive director and twenty-five as president and CEO, helped lead its change of status from a private foundation to one of the largest public charities in the nation....

In recognition of the gift, the five-hundred-seat theater in the Bloomberg Building at The Shed will be named for the hedge fund tycoon….

The grants to the Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience at the Atlantic Council and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors represent a new phase of the foundation's climate resilience work....

The gift will support and expansion of Buttenweiser Hall the creation of a flexible-use space, to be named for Arnhold, that will enable the center to meet the needs of its growing patron base through enhanced programming and training for a new generation of dance educators....

The International Aid Transparency Initiative's 2018 annual report notes that the number of organizations reporting their development and humanitarian spending jumped by 45 percent in 2018, and that those organizations have increased their spending by a total of $7 billion since 2017, to $152 billion....

With seed funding from two field-of-interest funds, the Brooklyn Elders Fund will support proven strategies and innovative approaches to providing care and support to the borough's population of older adults....

The leaders of five organizations will receive $1.5 million over three years to scale their efforts to address some of the world's most pressing problems....

According to a report from the Global Impact Investing Network, more than thirteen hundred organizations are involved in the impact investing market, of which roughly one-fifth are foundations....

Grants were awarded to organizations in Cuyahoga, Lake, and Geauga counties working in the areas of the environment, workforce development, education, community development, and youth-driven initiatives....

The award is inspired by SpaceIL, a former Google Lunar XPRIZE team, whose mission to become the first private, non-government entity to land on the surface of the moon is underway, with an anticipated landing on April 11....

The initiative, which has supported climate resilience efforts in cities around the globe, may be shut down as early as this summer, Bloomberg reports....

Funded by a $15 million gift from the Hasso Plattner Foundation, the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai will develop digital health solutions that empower patients and healthcare providers and improve health and health outcomes....

The grants will boost local journalism nationwide by bolstering news business development, training, and network and capacity-building initiatives....