The commitment will support a partnership between Vital Strategies, the Pew Charitable Trusts, Johns Hopkins University, and the CDC Foundation aimed at helping up to ten states with high rates of opioid implement solutions to strengthen prevention and treatment efforts....

Data from the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that average life expectancy for the overall U.S. population fell to 78.6 years in 2017....

The commitments include support to organizations working to advance climate policy and action in China ($4.6 million) and India ($12.2 million)....

The gift will fund the first five years of a twenty-year lease on the Bristol Hotel, a newly renovated, fifty-eight-unit SRO in San Francisco's Tenderloin district....

The commitment will support local organizations and civic institutions working to help those in need and improve the lives of residents of the metro region....

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

The fifty-three grants will support projects aimed at advancing scientists' understanding of the causes of Parkinson's, its progression, and factors that account for its variability....

Awarded through the foundation's Health Starts at Home program, the grants are aimed at helping residents of affordable housing achieve greater health and self-sufficiency....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Rhode Island....

A new analysis by Funders Concerned About AIDS found that philanthropic support for efforts to address HIV/AIDS in 2017 fell 5 percent on a year-over-year basis....

The grant from Dr. Phillips Charities will support construction of a YMCA Family Center in the city's Packing District, a planned 202-acre, $480 million community development project....

The October awards include seventy-seven grants totaling $3.11 million focused on supporting nonprofits working to eliminate racial disparities in housing, education, employment, and asset building....

Twenty-five nonprofits in twelve states and Washington, D.C., were awarded grants of $125,000 each in support of their efforts to expand access to affordable housing....

Commitments include grants awarded by the company's newly established Advancing Curiosity Fund and Diversity and Opportunity Fund for Virginia Institutions of Higher Education....

A study by finance professors at Georgetown and New York universities estimates that the mean annual investment return of nonprofit endowments between 2009 and 2016 was 6.65 percent, compared with benchmark returns of 7.96 percent for long-term government bonds and 13.7 percent for U.S. equities.... 

The amount raised represents a 27 percent increase over last year's total and brings to $1 billion the cumulative total raised since the 92nd Street Y and United Nations Foundation launched #GivingTuesday in 2012....

The commitments to Housing Trust Silicon Valley's TECH Fund include $10 million from Cisco and $5 million each from LinkedIn and Pure Storage, boosting total investment in the fund to $52 million....

The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism & Ideas in Sydney will support quality journalism, with a focus on strengthening reporting on Asia and providing opportunities for Australian and Asian journalists to collaborate....

The gift from Affiliated Managers Group will help establish the Sean M. Healey and AMG Center for ALS at Mass General, which will work to advance scientific research in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and develop effective treatments for people with the disease....

Grants were awarded in the areas of health and human services, education, and community enhancement....

Grants were awarded to thirty-two organizations working in four priority areas — changing narratives about criminal justice through art, reducing excessive prison sentences, keeping people out of jail and prison, and improving reentry into the community for the formerly incarcerated....

Established by the couple's gift, the George and Judy Marcus Funds for Excellence in the Liberal Arts will support student and faculty research, four endowed chairs, and programmatic enhancements in the Department of Creative Writing and the School of Cinema....

A new analysis by the Fundraising Effective Project found that after a sluggish first half of the year, donations to charities jumped in the third quarter, even as the number of donors on a year-over-year basis fell....

The gift includes $2.5 million in support of the Lunder Scholars program, which was established in 2002 to provide need-based aid to undergraduate students from Maine, and $500,000 in support of a strategic planning process....

A report from the Bridgespan Group found that ultra-high-net-worth U.S. households — defined as those with at least $500 million in assets — collectively gave just 1.2 percent of their assets to philanthropic causes in 2017....

The grant to the University of Illinois will support its Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project, an international research initiative aimed at enhancing the photosynthetic productivity and yield of key staple food crops....

Days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused George Soros of attempting to destabilize the country, the foundation said that "baseless claims" in the Turkish media made it impossible for it to continue its work in the country....

The gift from longtime supporter Joyce Linde will enable the university to build a new facility designed to meet the current and future needs of its music program....