The largest single gift in the history of the college will help fund the renovation, buildout, and transformation of a facility into a science center....

An analysis of clean energy-related news and opinion articles published in 2019 found that 42 percent quoted a woman, while only 6 percent referred to equity and justice and just 2 percent referred to communities of color....

According to regulatory filings, Walton Enterprises LLC, the Walton family's main investment entity, transferred 415 million shares, or about 15 percent of Walmart's outstanding shares, to the Walton Family Holdings Trust, which typically sells the shares to fund charitable contributions....

To be administered by the Seattle Foundation and launched with $2.5 million in commitments, the fund will award one-time operating grants to local organizations working with communities disproportionately impacted by the outbreak and its economic consequences....

The gift from alumnus Jim Koman and his wife, Jennifer, in honor of Koman's late father will establish the Bill Koman Game Plan for Success, a comprehensive development program designed to prepare football players for life after graduation....

The foundation awarded four grants over three years in support of efforts to improve health care and social services for the elderly....

The grant will support the combined efforts of African Parks, the World Wide Fund for Nature, and the Peace Parks Foundation to address the ecological and socioeconomic development of the Kavango Zambezi area, a cross-border ecosystem the size of France that is home to approximately half of Africa's savannah elephants and almost 20 percent of its lions....

The gift includes support for education programs at the National Museum of Natural History, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Museum of American History....

The gift will support programs designed to provide development opportunities to individuals who want to build a career as a patient care technician, as well as the means to move into long-term, higher-paying clinical positions such as nursing....

The SOAR Fellowship is the institute's first fellowship of women dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls around the world....

The United Nations Development Programme’s Gender Social Norms Index found that the Gender Inequality Index  plateaued in 2013 and then ticked up slightly in 2017-18....

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

Awarded through NFWF's Southeast Aquatics Fund, the grants will support six projects designed to improve stream habitat and restore thirty acres of wetland and riparian habitat in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Texas....

The gift from Barbara Bice will support the work of the Public Interest Law Foundation, which organizes pro bono clinics for vulnerable and marginalized populations and funds summer internships for students pursuing a career in public interest law....

Grants were awarded in support of community-led solutions to spark catalytic change and promote the economic security, safety, and health of the most marginalized women....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, and Rhode Island....

The commitment will help public health agencies in King County, Snohomish County, and surrounding communities strengthen their capacity to detect and treat the virus....

The gift will help launch a project designed to expand the amount of space available in the museum's building for exhibitions and public use....

The gift includes $5 million to bolster the Rothschild Family Endowed Financial Aid Fund, $5 million for the 75,000-square-foot Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, and $5 million in support of the college's new athletics and recreation center, which is scheduled to open later this year....

Eight grants were awarded in support of drug discovery efforts focused on removing or mitigating the effects of abnormal tau, a toxic brain protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and other tauopathies....

The planned bequest of fifteen postwar European sports cars valued at $10 million from the collection of Nicholas and Lee Begovich includes $7 million in support of faculty and student gravitational-wave research at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics....

The  financing includes $2.7 billion from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, $1.3 billion from the International Development Association, and $6 billion from the International Finance Corporation....

The inaugural round of grants awarded by the foundation will support more than five hundred activities, programs, and initiatives focused on improving the health and quality of life for low-income and underserved communities in New York State....

Through the Global Initiative for Women and Girls, the foundation will award grants of C$1 million to fifteen organizations working to advance human rights and opportunities for women and girls in impoverished, fragile, or conflict-affected areas....

The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne will use the grant to develop active and passive vaccine platforms and ensure the efficacy, safety, and readiness of a vaccine for phase-one human trials....

The fourth cohort of Leadership in Government Fellows will receive stipends ranging between $100,000 and $133,000 to develop ideas and strategies that advance the values of an open society....

The grant will support the development of a device that harnesses focused ultrasound technology to open the blood-brain barrier, a tightly packed network of vessels that protects the brain from toxins and prevents potentially helpful agents....

The gift from Gordon Rausser, former dean of the College of Natural Resources, will help establish an unrestricted endowment to address needs across the renamed Rausser College of Natural Resources and create an endowed chair in the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics....