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Lilly Endowment awards $17 million for COVID-19 relief
The grants will support organizations and ministries working to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indiana's Marion County....

Bezos's $10 billion tops 2020 list of biggest gifts
The ten largest gifts from U.S. philanthropists or their foundations in 2020 also included gifts to Feeding America, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, Tipping Point Community, and the World Resources Institute....

Columbus Foundation awards $1.5 million for housing, food insecurity
The grants will support efforts to address housing instability and food insecurity in central Ohio....

Jack Dorsey awards $5 million for COVID relief in East Africa
The Twitter and Square co-founder and CEO's #startsmall LLC also awarded grants of nearly $2.6 million to the Children's Health Council and $1 million to Meals on Wheels San Francisco....

Bisciotti Foundation, Ravens commit $5 million to Catholic Charities
The donation from the NFL's Baltimore franchise and the family foundation established by its majority owner will support Catholic Charities programs and services at more than two hundred locations in Baltimore and nine Maryland counties....

American Indian Graduate Center receives $1 million for scholarships
To be matched by $1 million from the center itself, the grant from the Johnson Scholarship Foundation will fund scholarships over the next ten years for a hundred and fifty Native students pursuing a degree in accounting and finance....

University of Missouri receives $10 million for football facility
Mizzou Athletics is working with St. Louis-based architecture firm HOK and its Kansas City-based sports division, HOK-Sport, to develop pre-design programming and planning for the new facility....

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee awards $1.75 million to food banks
The grants will support six food banks working to address food insecurity related to the COVID-19 pandemic statewide....

New York Jets award $1 million to social justice organizations
The team awarded grants of $250,000 to four national nonprofit organizations and will also provide volunteer support from Jets players, coaches, and staff....

People in the News (01/03/2021): appointments, promotions, obituaries
The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector....

Nonprofits set to raise record $900 million on Classy platform in 2020
The platform reported processing more than $860 million in online donations from nearly 4.4 million donors making over 9.2 million donations....

Eastern Bank Foundation awards $3 million in COVID-19 relief grants
The grants will support efforts to address basic needs, including housing stability, food security, and essential services for low- and moderate-income individuals and families impacted by the pandemic....

Lehigh Carbon Community College receives $1 million bequest
The gift from the estate of former professor Clifford F. Miller will provide scholarships for both part- and full-time students, with preference given to those studying in a technology-related field....

Community Foundation Update (01/02/2021)
News and staff announcements from community foundations in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin....

Inaugural recipients of Impact Fellowships announced
A joint effort of the Federation for American Scientists, Coding It Forward, and Schmidt Futures, the program matches software engineers, product managers, and designers with a host nonprofit, where they spend time working on a pressing societal problem....

Donor confidence up but uncertainty about 2021 remains, survey finds
A December survey by Campbell Rinker found that the share of U.S. donors who said they would stop giving or give less to charity in the next twelve months fell to 18 percent, from 34 percent in April, while 67 percent of respondents indicated they planned to maintain or increase their giving in 2021, up from 61 percent in April....

Stand Up To Cancer awarded $10 million for cancer initiative
The initiative will fund a 'Dream Team' of researchers and a comprehensive public awareness campaign focused on increasing colorectal cancer screenings in medically underserved communities....

Dodge Foundation announces $2.4 million in its final 2020 grants
The foundation's final grants of 2020 include awards for COVID-19 relief and to organizations working to improve and/or advance the arts, education, the environment, and community development....

Rasmuson Foundation awards $8.7 million in grants
The grants include $5 million over five years to the Alaska Community Foundation in support of an expansion of its affiliate program....

Longwood Foundation awards $1 million to Delaware State University
The grant will support ongoing costs related to the university's acquisition of Wesley College, including personnel and a comprehensive plan for aligning the two institutions' academic programs....

Joyce Foundation awards grants totaling nearly $15 million
Grants were awarded by the Chicago-based foundation in the areas of culture, democracy, education and economic mobility, the environment, and gun violence prevention....

Higher education inflation rose 1.9 percent in FY2020
According to the Commonfund Institute's annual Higher Education Price Index, higher education inflation in 2020 clocked in at its lowest rate since FY2016....

Texas Outcomes-Based Finance Challenge announces first-round winners
Supported by Lyda Hill Philanthropies and the Cynthia and George Mitchell, Harte Charitable, and Jacob and Terese Hershey foundations and managed by Quantified Ventures in partnership with Land/Water Associates and the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, the challenge seeks to leverage outcomes-based capital for projects that offer environmental and community benefits....

Gross Family Foundation announces $17 million in grants
The foundation awarded grants to fifty-one nonprofits in 2020, including grants totaling $2.4 million in support of COVID-19 relief efforts....

Duke University receives $4.5 million for holistic student support
The grant from the Duke Endowment will fund a program that makes full-time advising and academic support professionals available to students who need help navigating the university's many support services....

Grameen America launches impact fund for minority women entrepreneurs
Proceeds from the Social Business Fund II will enable the organization to make nearly $200 million in microloans to low-income women entrepreneurs of color over five years....

Templeton Foundation awards $49 million for new projects
The foundation awarded grants in 2020 to thirty-one projects aligned with its general funding areas, including the social and physical sciences, individual freedom and free markets, character development, and voluntary family planning....

OSU Cancer Center awarded $10 million for myeloma research
To be made over two years, the gift will establish the Riney Family Foundation Myeloma Center for Advanced Research Excellence....