The grant from MathWorks will support initiatives designed to improve access to quality education for children and women, deliver innovative teaching solutions, provide job training to youth, and support microfinance programs for women....

The gift from the Steward Family Foundation will be used to enhance the university's ability to recruit and cultivate students interested in jazz, including those from underrepresented minority communities in St. Louis and beyond....

The programs support efforts to advance fairer, healthier, and more inclusive societies around the globe....

A report from the Women's Philanthropy Institute finds that while most households reduce their overall spending leading into and after retirement, they generally maintain their charitable giving levels....

The ten grants were awarded through the foundation's focus areas of Reducing Inequality and Improving the Use of Research Evidence....

Since 2014, a hundred and forty individuals, corporations and organizations have made gifts ranging from $100,000 to $5 million to the association's Step Up the Pace: Accelerating Alzheimer's Research campaign....

A report from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education finds that giving to higher education institutions in the United Kingdom totaled £979 million ($1.28 billion) in 2016-17....

Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, his family, and producer Jeffrey Seller, in partnership with the Flamboyan Foundation, created the fund with the goal of ensuring that rebuilding efforts on the island include support for its vibrant arts and cultural scene....

Seventy-six grants totaling more than $19.1 million were awarded to physician-scientists studying innovative treatment options for childhood cancer....

According to an AP analysis, private funders have given nearly half a billion dollars since 2006 to fifty-two charter support organizations across the United States....

The commitment will support a program that provides key services in the areas of vision care, health education, inclusive sports, leadership development, and youth activation as part of the two organizations' ongoing efforts to support inclusive communities globally....

A survey by the Center for Effective Philanthropy found that while 70 percent of nonprofit CEOs believed it was very or extremely important for their staff to be diverse, only 36 percent believed their staff were actually diverse....

The grant from Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing will support a project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to develop a semi-automatic operator-guided assembly process using industrial robots integrated with multiple sensors....

The New York State Department of Tax and Finance has opened an investigation of the president's foundation, which is facing a lawsuit filed by the New York State attorney general....

Part of a public-private capital campaign led by the foundation and the City of Beaverton, the gift from Pat Reser will support construction of a $46 million multidisciplinary arts center....

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

The awards include $64,020 to International Social Service, USA to provide services for families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border....

The gift from alumnus Daniel Logan ('75) and his wife, Gladys Cofrin, will establish a center for addictions research, training, and outreach....

Sixteen fellows in ten states will receive a total of $1.4 million in support of their efforts to advance reform and spur debate on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alabama, Alaska, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin....

With the grant, the organization will continue to implement a new strategy designed to strengthen its efforts to reduce institutional placement, improve economic mobility, eliminate racial disparities, and advance social justice for more youth and families....

The report from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS found that the higher total stems largely from the timing of U.S. funding, which helped offset reductions in spending by eight of the fourteen donor countries....

This year, more than two hundred cities applied to the program, which aims to foster creative collaboration, address civic issues, and support local economies through public art....

Building on the success of the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund in Detroit, investments of $4 million from JPMorgan Chase and $2.5 million from Fifth Third Bank will provide minority entrepreneurs in Chicago with critical access to capital, education, and other resources....

With funding from Bill Gates, Leonard Lauder, and others, the Diagnostics Accelerator will back promising efforts to develop novel biomarkers for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias....

In the most recent fiscal year, Schwab Charitable donors recommended more than 420,000 grants, up 36 percent on a year-over-year basis, in support of 78,000 charities....

The IRS will no longer require 501(c) organizations other than 501(c)(3)s to include personally identifiable information about their donors on their Form 990s....

Four organizations will receive grants in support of efforts to reunite and advocate on behalf of immigrant families that have been separated or imprisoned after seeking refuge in the United States....