The gift to Nationwide Children's Hospital will help support the Center for Family Safety and Healing, which works to break the cycle of family violence....

The foundation will work to ensure that all children in the state have access to opportunities that lead to stable and successful lives....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, and Washington, D.C....

The gift from an anonymous donor will support free legal services and pro bono services at the newly renamed Law Clinic and Justice Center at Albany Law School....

The gift from the founder, chair, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners will endow a scholarship fund and fund the design and creation of a park near campus....

An annual report from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Marts & Lundy forecasts overall giving to increase 3.4 percent in 2019 and 4.1 percent in 2020....

The gift will enable the institute at the University of Utah to scale its expansion plans from 102,000 square feet of new space to 200,000 square feet and from four to eight stories....

Forty-five artists and artist collectives working in disciplines such as architecture and design, craft, dance, film, media, music, theater and performance, traditional arts, visual art, and writing will receive an unrestricted award of $50,000....

With support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; the Ford, Hewlett, Packard, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley Community foundations; the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC); Facebook; Genentech; and Kaiser Permanente, the Partnership for the Bay's Future will work to address the region's affordable housing crisis....

According to a report from fundraising platform GiveCampus, the increase was driven by a 14 percent rise in the number of online donors and an 11 percent uptick in the average amount given....

A record amount of gifts made from Schwab Charitable donor-advised accounts in 2018 included more than 487,000 grants to approximately 86,500 charities, representing year-over-year increases of 32 percent and 35 percent, respectively....

The University of Central Arkansas has announced a $20 million gift from the Windgate Foundation in support of a new center for fine and performing arts....

To be matched by $20 million from the university, the gift will establish the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health and support efforts to advance research, technological innovation, and clinical care for Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases....

The initiative will support efforts to advance basic understanding of and improve treatments for depression and anxiety, including what works and why, and how best to tailor treatments to individuals who need them....

The American Alliance of Museums has received grants totaling $4 million from the Andrew W. Mellon, Alice L. Walton, and Ford foundations to help museums build organizational cultures that reflect the communities they serve....

The foundation's Strategic Framework 2019-2021 includes an updated mission statement — "[to advance] a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive...."

Announced at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the Data Science for Social Impact initiative will focus on empowering nonprofit, civic, and government organizations with the data science tools, expertise, and resources they need to address the world's most pressing challenges....

The grant to the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University will support an expansion of the institute’s Onward to Opportunity program, which provides skills training and certification to service members transitioning to civilian life....

According to a report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund's Healthy Food & Community Change Initiative successfully leveraged food and food policy tools to strengthen underserved neighborhoods in New York City....

The gift from alumni James R. and Carmen D. Campbell will support the renovation and modernization of the university's East Bank building that houses its Institute of Child Development....

The grant will enable the First Nations Development Institute to expand its efforts to build more equitable food systems that promote the health and well-being of children and families....

Five donors made contributions of at least $1 million between October 1 and December 31 — the Boeing Company, Fidelity Charitable Donor Advised Fund, the Gibbons Scattone Family Foundation, the Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund, and the Harris Family Foundation....

The gift from alumnus Jaffray Woodriff’s Quantitative Foundation — the largest in UVA history — will establish a school that offers both doctoral and undergraduate degrees in data science....

The grants will support an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship program and the work of the Poetry Coalition, an alliance of more than two dozen poetry organizations....

The program is the first dedicated to misophonia research and the development of new treatments for the little-known condition, in which specific sounds or other sensory stimuli lead to strong physical and emotional responses....

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

According to the foundation, grants to more than thirteen hundred nonprofits and educational institutions supported efforts to help more than five hundred thousand people improve their financial well-being....

The four funded projects will examine vaccination strategies for brain tumors, the micro-environment for tumors, anti-tumor T-cells, and personalized immunotherapy approaches....