A survey by Exponent Philanthropy found that a majority of funders who who run a "lean" operation — including individual donors, families engaged in meaningful philanthropic activity, and foundations with few or no staff — say their work is strongly or moderately influenced by economic conditions in their local community....

Awarded through the National Coastal Resilience Fund, the grants will support efforts to restore or expand natural features such as coastal marshes and wetlands, dune and beach systems, oyster and coral reefs, mangroves, forests, coastal rivers, and barrier islands....

While a report from Fidelity Charitable found little difference by gender among entrepreneurs in giving rates, amounts donated, and time spent volunteering, it did find differences in their motivations....

Commitments from the Foundation for a Just Society, the Open Society Foundations, the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, and the Hewlett Foundation will support the launch of an initiative designed to strengthen women's funds and advance opportunities for the women, girls, and LGBTQI people they serve....

An analysis by the Peace and Security Funders Group and Candid found that three hundred and thirty foundations worldwide awarded more than twenty-one hundred grants in support of efforts to prevent future conflict, resolve existing conflict, and support stability and peace....

The gift from alumnus Harlan M. Stone will support construction of a new building that will serve as a hub for cross-disciplinary collaborations across Penn's twelve schools and many academic centers....

The largest gift ever awarded by the Blank Family Foundation includes support for need-based scholarships, dedicated campus space for collaborative learning and experimentation, and increased access to Babson's entrepreneurial centers and institutes....

The competition is designed to spur the creation of technology capable of identifying and cataloging rainforest biodiversity, with the aim of establishing a new bioeconomy for the twenty-first century....

Announced at a ceremony marking the opening of CEU's new campus in Vienna — where it relocated from Budapest following a crackdown by the Hungarian government on foreign-funded organizations — the commitment will support the launch of the Open Society University Network....

The gift from the John M. O'Quinn Foundation will support construction of a new building for the center....

A survey by PRRI and AAPI Data found that 23 percent of Asian-American and Pacific Islander residents of California were working but reported household income of no more than 250 percent of the U.S. Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure....

The largest grant ever to the Trevor Project will boost the organization's capacity to provide crisis counseling services to the estimated 1.8 million LGBTQ young people annually who seriously consider suicide....

Recipients include Graham Windham, which was awarded more than $1.1 million in support of its Graham Support Lead and Achieve Model, an innovative college and career coaching program for foster youth....

Based on feedback from surveys commissioned from the Center for Effective Philanthropy, the foundation is working to improve its understanding of grantees' and donors' needs and goals, the clarity of its communications, and its responsiveness....

The bequest includes an eight-figure gift for the Wrightsman Fund, which provides support for acquisitions of art created from 1500 to 1850 in Western Europe and Great Britain, as well as significant gifts to various museum departments....

Led by the foundation's Arts & Culture Program, the Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) initiative is aimed at developing a platform for the professional development of Kresge staff and industry leaders around emerging field priorities....

The gift from alumnus J. David Rosenberg (JD '73) and his wife, Dianne, will support scholarships for outstanding law students as well as efforts to recruit and retain world-class faculty....

Piloted over three years in Indonesia, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo and now a formal grantmaking strategy, the Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation initiative will invest $7.5 million annually over five years in support of small-scale farmers in tropical forest areas....

Awarded as part of a strategic expansion of the foundation's grantmaking, the funds will support the efforts of CARE's Pennies to Power program to bring the benefits of village savings and loan associations to women in Malawi, Tanzania, and Nigeria....

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

The largest endowment gift in the foundation's history will establish the James W. and Anne H.S. Nethercott Fund, income from which will benefit organizations across the Cincinnati region and in Canada....

The gift will support the Simpson Querrey Center for Neurogenetics and fund new investigations into the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to genetic neurological disorders and diseases such as Parkinson's....

Announced during the college's first Women's Leadership Summit, the pledge from alumna Denise Dupré, a former Dartmouth trustee, will be realized once a thousand women have made a gift of any size toward the renovation of Dartmouth Hall, the iconic centerpiece of the Ivy League school's campus....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington....

The initiative will support efforts to return not only art and ceremonial objects but also human remains, natural history specimens, archives, and cultural heritage artifacts that were looted from the African continent to their rightful countries....

The four institutions will each receive about $261 million worth of stock as a result of the sale of LORD Corporation, which was led by Thomas Lord until his death in 1989....

Awarded through the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund, the grants will help remedy environmental harm and reduce the risk of future damage to natural resources affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill....

The gift will support the development of a bachelor of arts degree in constitutional democracy and a master of arts degree in Atlantic history and politics and also will sustain and expand the Kinder Institute's partnership with the University of Oxford....