Although plastic bags are banned or taxed in fifty countries, only two states in the U.S. have imposed a ban on them and only four have mandatory recycling or reuse programs in place....

Awarded to GEBCO-NF Alumni, a fourteen-nation team based in the United States, the $4 million grand prize for technology will help enable comprehensive mapping of the ocean floor by 2030....

The commitment from co-founder and trustee C. Harry Knowles and his wife, Lucy Balian Rorke-Adams, will help support the professional development of early-career high school physics, chemistry, biology, and math teachers....

The Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter will support theoretical physics research across twelve institutions based on a series of recent developments in theoretical physics which have revealed that even large macroscopic systems consisting of many atoms or electrons — matter — can behave in an essentially quantum way....

The Canadian-led funder collaborative plans to mobilize a minimum of C$1 billion over the next fifteen years in support of women's organizations and movements in Canada and around the world....

The foundation awarded unrestricted operating support to thirty-five arts and cultural organizations that contribute to the vibrancy of the Philadelphia region....

The first round of grants awarded through the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation's Diagnostics Accelerator will support four projects targeting biomarkers in the blood, eyes, and other peripheral fluids and tissues....

The gift from trustee and alumnus Sam Fleming and his widow, Nancy, will establish the Samuel C. Fleming Molecular Engineering Laboratories and support research on drug design, drug delivery, biomedical diagnostics, and the discovery of new materials....

A report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research finds that early childhood and higher education systems can do more to support each other's goals and boost economic mobility for America's families....

The first GNI Innovation Challenge in the United States and Canada will award grants of up to $300,000 in support of innovative projects that generate revenue and/or increase audience engagement for local journalism....

The largest gift in Yiddishkayt's twenty-five-year history will fund the Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship, which will offer participants a series of immersive experiences focused on Central and Eastern European Jewish history, culture, and heritage....

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

The grant to the Open Government Partnership will advance efforts to bring together government leaders and civil society advocates around efforts to make government more transparent and effective....

The grant to Points of Light will support an expansion of the Starbucks Foundation Service Fellows program to twenty cities....

The grants include $500,000 from the Kellogg Foundation and $1 million each from the Kresge and PNC foundations to fund an expansion of IFF's Learning Spaces, a program designed to boost the capacity of and access to quality early childhood education in Detroit....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin...

Selected from a pool of more than two hundred and twenty applicants, the grantees will receive awards of up to $200,000 to launch and expand high-quality youth apprenticeship programs in multiple cities and regions and a range of industries....

The gift from Michael R. Bloomberg will support the efforts of the university's Center for Global Sustainability to analyze and evaluate current U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and help the United States meet its carbon reduction goals under the Paris climate agreement....

In a dispute over administration of the funds, Hugh Culverhouse, Jr. has requested the return of $10 million, while UA System chancellor Fess St. John has recommended returning all $21.5 million and stripping the Culverhouse name from the law school....

Awarded through the foundation's Building Bridges 2018-2019 Program, the grants include support for theatrical and literary programming, documentary films, hands-on workshops, and a "jingle truck" created by a Pakistani truck-art painter….

Slated for completion in 2026, an expanded and renovated Guyot Hall, to be renamed after the Schmidts, will house the computer sciences department, currently spread across nine buildings, in a single location....

The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, JDRF, and the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust have joined forces to support autoimmunity research, with the goal of understanding, predicting, and preventing insulin-dependent diabetes following checkpoint therapy for cancer....

The gift includes $8 million to establish the Penner Family Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will provide tuition support to promising students from low-income households, and $2 million in support of the Penner Family Endowed Experiences Fund, which will provide students with additional educational opportunities....

In support of a AU$5 million campaign to improve the health of the Swan-Canning Estuary in Western Australia, the foundation will match other gifts dollar-for-dollar, up to AU$2 million....

The C$100 million ($74 million) gift from Charles and Margaret Juravinski will endow a health research center and support research at McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences, and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton....

The latest group of billionaires to pledge to give at least half their wealth to charitable causes include WhatsApp founder Brian Acton and his wife, Tegan; MacKenzie Bezos, ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos; and Ben Delo, co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX....

According to a survey conducted by Fidelity Charitable, the median annual donation among millennial business owners was $13,654 in 2017, more than twice that of Gen X entrepreneurs ($6,200) and boomer entrepreneurs ($6,192)....

Seven early-career cancer research scientists and physician-scientists in the New York City area will each receive $200,000 a year for up to three years....