While the global share of those who helped a stranger, donated money, or volunteered fell slightly, Africa saw growth across all three categories.....

In recognition of the gift from Elizabeth Reichert, the zoo will name its new South American pavilion for her late husband, Arnulf, whom she met through the resistance during World War II....

According to an analysis by Foundation Center, more than $200 million has been pledged or donated to address relief and recovery efforts in Texas and Louisiana....

The multimillion-dollar Texas Pathways effort is patterned after the American Association of Community College's Pathways Model, which was launched nationally in 2015....

Launched with the goal of raising more than $100 million for relief and recovery efforts, the Rebuild Texas Fund will focus on health and housing, schools and child care, workforce and transportation, and small businesses....

The gift from alumnus Tripp Smith and his wife, Sheila, will fund a recreation center in the university's new student center....

PSG Group founder and chair Jannie Mouton has donated shares in the South Africa-based financial services firm worth $82 million to his foundation....

The grant to Enterprise Community Partners will support efforts to develop affordable housing and early childhood education centers on underutilized public and tax-exempt land....

A coalition of funders committed to reducing gun violence in Chicago has announced that its thirty members have pledged to invest a total of $30 million in its first year....

The annual study by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that adult obesity rates rose in four states in 2016, fell in one, and remained stable in the rest....

The grants ranging between $50,000 and $150,000 will support the needs of food banks and nonprofit agencies across the company's service area....

The foundation awarded five grants in support of research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people....

RBF has joined the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance and will partner with Mission Investors Exchange to help build the ecosystem for impact investing....

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

The grant to Washington University will enable researchers to study schools in St. Louis and begin to develop models for African-American students that better serve their physical and emotional needs....

Possible explanations for the brief, bright pulses of radio emissions range from outbursts from rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields to speculation that they are directed energy sources used by extraterrestrial civilizations to power spacecraft....

The Kansas Healthy Food Initiative will work with local growers and investors to leverage KHF funds to create and sustain food access points in areas of significant need....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Washington....

Even though board turnover at nonprofit organizations at the moment is low, there's room for improvement among, an annual survey conducted by accounting firm Marks Paneth finds....

The Knight Community Information Lab will lead four community foundations through an eighteen-month human-centered design process aimed at developing long-term solutions to local information gaps....

A report from the World Resources Institute finds that some Asian countries are not effectively telling people whether the water they use for drinking, farming, and fishing is polluted or dangerously toxic....

With support from the OSF-South Africa and Omidyar Network, the Media Development Investment Fund will provide dedicated funding and capacity-building assistance to independent media businesses in South Africa focused on digital innovation....

In recognition of the gifts, the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine will be renamed the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell....

The largest commitment to date for relief and recovery efforts includes $10 million in support of Red Cross shelters and up to $10 million to match customer contributions....

The gift will transfer to the museum the foundation's assets as well as responsibility for the stewardship of Abstract Expressionist painters James Brooks' and Charlotte Park's legacy....

The emergency grant will bolster ongoing efforts to contain one of the largest cholera outbreaks in the world....

Pledges of $1 million each from the Consumer Energy Foundation and Tom Gores, chair and CEO of Platinum Equity and owner of the Detroit Pistons, will help improve opportunities for Flint students to pursue higher education....

A grant of $7 million will support the next phase of Reinvent the Toilet project, while a second grant of $3.7 million will be used to establish a Sanitation Technology Cluster at Duke....