The foundation kicked off the three-year initiative with a $600,000 grant to the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association in support of preliminary planning for the 254-acre riverfront project....

As more foundations recognize and acknowledge the entrenched power imbalances they’ve inherited, created, or inadvertently helped sustain, the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project will work to bring more accountability and equity to the field of philanthropy....

Projects under consideration include the redevelopment of affordable and workforce housing, partnerships with housing authorities to bring grocery stores to food deserts, and the creation of community centers for public housing residents....

The grant from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations will support preclinical and Phase I clinical development of INO-4800, the company's new coronavirus vaccine candidate....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been preparing for arrival in the U.S. of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) first identified two weeks ago in Wuhan, China....

Donor-advised fund account holders recommended more than 600,000 grants totaling over $2.7 billion to over 89,000 charities in 2019, a 26 percent increase in dollars granted and a 24 percent increase in the numbers of grants compared with 2018....

The governments of France and Germany and the Hewlett and Grantham foundations have pledged to raise $100 million to help mobilize a total of $500 million in investments in sustainable infrastructure in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa....

The gift from David and Barbara Roux will launch a graduate education and research campus in Portland, Maine....

Split between public- and private-sector groups in China and Africa, the funding will support efforts in areas of critical need, including the identification and confirmation of cases, the isolation and care of infected patients, and the development of treatments and vaccines....

Made through a joint partnership established by the Blank, Marcus, and Home Depot foundations, the three-year, $5.7 million commitment will enable the Construction Education Foundation of Georgia to expand its K-12 program across Georgia....

The program will provide a hundred K-12 educators with grants of up to $12,000 to pursue creative renewal activities that foster their professional and personal growth....

The capital from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and eighteen BCBS companies will enable a new subsidiary to acquire and develop Abbreviated New Drug Applications and work with nonprofit Civica Rx and manufacturers to make select generic drugs more affordable....

The new strategy encompasses six grant funds designed to advance "efforts that…challenge racial inequities and advance excellent, student-centered public education for all New England youth...."

The fourth-quarter grants include support for organizations working in the United States and/or internationally....

Grants were awarded in the areas of the arts and humanities, education, the environment, health and medicine, human services, public policy, and religion....

Part of a five-year, $50 million initiative announced by Mastercard and the Rockefeller Foundation in 2019, the Data.org platform will provide NGOs and nonprofits with training resources, data sets, and open-source tools they can use to harness the power of data insights and analytics....

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

The gift from alumna Brit Jepson d'Arbeloff will establish a center in the Sex Differences in Health and Disease Initiative to catalyze basic and translational research and collaborations around how molecular differences contribute to conditions of health and disease in women....

Developed with a $2.5 million grant from the PepsiCo Foundation, the Passport to Success Traveler program provides a mobile-friendly life skills training curriculum designed to help young people around the world succeed in the workplace....

The gift from Arlene Schnitzer, the largest from an individual donor in the museum's history, will serve as the lead gift in the public phase of PAM's capital campaign....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Texas, Virgin Islands, and Wyoming....

To be known as Gates Ag One, the organization will work to translate high-impact innovations into affordable, high-quality tools, technologies, and resources that smallholder farmers can use to sustainably improve crop productivity, adapt to the effects of climate change, and lift themselves out of poverty....

The gift will support a $500 million initiative to advance pediatric health research, innovation, and community health outreach in the Intermountain West region....

With $200 million already invested in more than a hundred organizations, Imaginable Futures, as the organization will be known, is being launched with an additional $150 million from Pierre and Pam Omidyar....

Building on an existing arrangement between Central European University and Bard College, the Open Society University Network will promote rigorous education and provide neglected populations such as refugees, incarcerated people, and other displaced groups with networked courses that connect students and faculty from universities located in different parts of the world....

The report from the College Board found a correlation not only between educational attainment and median earnings but also between education and health outcomes, social mobility, and civic participation....

The funding will support "aspirational" projects in the city, one of three focus areas for the Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence, which was created in 2017 with a gift from William Johnston and William Parfet....

Ethos Capital, a recently formed private equity firm, has offered $1.1 billion to purchase the Public Interest Registry, which, if the deal goes through, would put it in a position to raise prices on dot-orgs' registrations without restriction....