The gift from the Harper Family Foundation will establish a scholarship fund for academically accomplished current and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces....

The Weill Neurohub will facilitate collaborations between neuroscientists and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Washington....

The latest installment of the annual report from the National Philanthropic Trust found that grant dollars awarded by donor-advised funds in 2018 increased 18.9 percent on a year-over-year basis....

The commitment by Eric and Wendy Schmidt includes support for a new program aimed at increasing opportunities for exceptional young people to engage in lifelong service....

The gift from serial entrepreneur Greg Olsen will endow professorships and fellowships in the school of engineering, as well as a Dean's Strategic Investment Fund....

The third annual ranking by the JUST Capital Foundation and Forbes ranked Microsoft first overall on issues that matter most to the American public, followed by NVIDIA, Apple, Intel, Salesforce.com, and Alphabet....

Now in its seventh year, the annual prize recognizes organizations working to improve local communities in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the twenty-three Native nations that share the same geography....

The Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies will house the post-graduate degree programs of the Dedman College of Sciences and Humanities, the Simmons School of Education and Human Development, the Lyle School of Engineering, and the Meadows School of the Arts....

The largest foundation gift ever to UT Austin will support construction of a ten-thousand-seat basketball arena and events center....

Grants were awarded to more than a hundred nonprofits providing recovery and rehabilitation programs and workforce transition services for veterans and their spouses....

The foundation and its private-sector partner have launched the TP Renewable Microgrid initiative, which aims to provide clean power to nearly five million Indian households over the next decade....

As part of the financial service giant's five-year, $350 million commitment to meet the growing demand for skilled workers, the investment includes support for veterans training in San Jose, California; Jersey City, New Jersey; and Dallas, Texas....

Environmentalists Frank and Joann Randall have pledged $45 million in stock to the Trust for Public Land, in addition to the $5 million they've previously committed, to help buy Banning Ranch, a four-hundred-acre parcel of wetland and coastal bluffs where the Santa Ana River meets the Pacific Ocean....

The grant is part of a recently announced $135 million public-private partnership focused on creating a state-of-the-art library space for the city....

To meet the changing needs of the Bay Area arts community, the foundation has released a new strategic framework that will guide the program's grantmaking over the next five years....

The gift from the W.P. Carey Foundation will enable the newly renamed law school to attract the most talented students, increase financial assistance for students from historically underrepresented populations, expand its pro bono programs, and recruit leading scholars....

The grant will support a three-year, $10 million project focused on questions related to humans' unique autonomous abilities....

Named in honor of the late Iranian Fields Medalist and Stanford professor, the annual Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize will provide $50,000 to an early-career woman mathematician who has completed her PhD within the past two years....

The foundation will provide support for a marine research center in Exmouth, Australia, and work with local businesses to sustainably develop the surrounding area....

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

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas....

A joint effort of the foundation's Arts & Culture and Human Services programs and the Boys and Men of Color Working Group, the Culture of Justice initiative supports organizations working to use the arts to spark innovative approaches to community justice....

The gift from Baltimore Orioles first baseman Chris Davis and his wife, Jill, will support construction of a state-of-the-art pediatric hybrid catheterization lab and operating room at University of Maryland Children's Hospital....

The largest gift in the school's history will cover half the $20 million cost of the Maggi Sue, which, when completed, will replace the Neeskay, a converted Korean War-era ship that currently is the only research vessel at work year-round on the Great Lakes....

Although donations to the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations increased 11.3 percent in 2018, fundraisers are concerned whether such gains are sustainable....

Five investigators will each receive $1.5 million over three years in support of stem cell research that is less likely to receive support from traditional funding sources but has the potential to significantly advance our understanding of human biology....

A grant of $1.26 million over three years will provide continued support for a senior editor on the site's religion and ethics desk as well as an editorial position focused on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector....

A New York County Supreme Court judge has ordered President Trump to pay $2 million in damages to a number of nonprofit organizations as part of a settlement involving his now-dissolved foundation....