The gift from Kwanza Jones ('93) and José E. Feliciano ('94) — the largest in the university's history from Black and Latinx donors — will support construction of two adjoining dormitories in one of two residential colleges being built to accommodate an expansion of the student body by about 10 percent....

Launched in 2016, the ten-year, $36 million fellowship program recognizes early-career innovators at U.S. universities who are creating tools and technologies with the potential to accelerate progress in the areas of scientific research, environmental conservation, and patient care....

The commitments will support effort to provide greater access to banking and credit in communities of color, increase investments in Black-owned businesses, expand homeownership among Black Americans, and advance anti-racist practices in the financial services industry....

A joint project of the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy and the Sergey Brin Family Foundation, the Aligning Science Across Parkinson's initiative awarded inaugural grants to twenty-one teams studying the biology of Parkinson's disease-associated genetics and neuro-immune interactions....

Eight performing artists will each receive an unrestricted grant of $250,000 and an additional $25,000 to encourage savings for retirement....

The gift will establish the Lavine Family Fund for Preventative Cancer Therapies and support research on precursor conditions, immunotherapies, and innovative approaches to early detection....

Awarded through the foundation’s Charting the Future for Indiana's Colleges and Universities initiative, the grants will support strategies aimed at better preparing students for the future and ensuring the institutions’ long-term sustainability....

Funded by the Ford Foundation, the report from KKS Advisors and Test of Corporate Purpose found that companies that signed on to the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation responded no better than non-signatory companies to the overlapping COVID-19 and racial injustice crises....

The gift will establish the Panda Cares Center of Hope, a nationwide initiative launched in partnership with the Children's Miracle Network to provide physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual care for patients and their families....

The first round of awards funded by proceeds from a $125 million social impact bond offering includes fifteen grants totaling $15 million in the area of voting rights and democracy and six grants totaling $10 million in support of communities  impacted by the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism....

The gift from the Grainger Foundation — the largest ever to the college — includes $20 million in support of the Strategic Targeted Achievement Recognition (STAR) scholarship program....

Based on compensation data at more than a hundred and thirteen thousand nonprofits in Candid's GuideStar database, the 2020 Nonprofit Compensation Report found that, between FY17 and FY18, the share of women leaders increased or held steady in all organizational budget-size categories, while the gender pay gap held steady or widened in all but one category....

The company has announced a multiyear partnership with thirteen HBCUs aimed at developing a diverse and inclusive quantum computing workforce, as well as in-kind donations totaling $100 million to a separate cohort of HBCUs....

The report from the Council on Foundations, Philanthropy California, and Dalberg Advisors examined changes in practices in the areas of resources, priorities, and internal operations and found that the majority of foundations have yet to take significant steps to share power with their grantee partners....

The funding will enable the Pathways to Progress initiative to provide ten thousand young adults over the next three years with opportunities to gain work experience and develop their careers at Citi....

With the goal of stabilizing cultural anchor institutions, many of which face the possibility of permanent closure as a result of the pandemic, the Art Museum Futures Fund will award grants ranging from $600,000 to $5.5 million to help stabilize museums as they prepare to re-open....

An initiative of the the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, and the National Book Foundation, the fund awarded grants to two hundred and eighty-two nonprofit literary arts organizations, magazines, and presses that have experienced financial losses due to COVID-19....

The Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership will serve as a hub where academics, business leaders, community members, and government and policy officials come together to work on timely and substantive issues in the area of ethical leadership....

In 2002, Charles Feeney and the leadership of what would become Atlantic Philanthropies made the decision to invest its entire endowment in philanthropic causes and to sunset its operations by the end of 2020 as part of an approach to philanthropy Feeney dubbed "giving while living"....

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

The largest single gift in the school's 130-year-history will enable it to begin construction on a new $26 million Collaborative Learning Center....

Grants to thirty-two local housing nonprofit organizations will support direct relief and a range of services for families and individuals who rent, including the elderly, new Americans, veterans, the disabled, women, and youth....

Awarded through the Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow (GIFT) initiative, the eighty-four Community Leadership grants will support locally determined priorities, including efforts to strengthen early childhood, secondary, and postsecondary education in the state and quality-of-life initiatives....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin....

The gift will establish the Anne W. Marion Endowment in support of students, faculty, and programming at the medical school, which welcomed its inaugural class of sixty students in 2019....

The initiative will support efforts to provide African Americans and the businesses they operate with affordable capital, financial tools, and products and services....

The report from National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that 72 percent of Latinx respondents, 60 percent of African-American respondents, and 55 percent of Native American respondents were experiencing "serious financial problems" as a result of the pandemic....

A report from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving found that 41 percent of religious congregations reported a decline in donations while 28 percent reported an increase, with donations from February to June falling an average of 4.4 percent on a year-over-year basis....