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....

As part of the commitment, Rotary will work to raise $50 million a year over the next three years, with every dollar to be matched with two additional dollars from the Gates Foundation....

Over the next three years, fintech accelerator Catalyst Fund will use the capital to invest in fintech solutions that help advance financial inclusion for a million people in India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Africa....

A report from Oxfam International found that the more than twenty-one hundred billionaires globally held more wealth than the 4.6 billion people at the bottom the global wealth pyramid....

The grant will enable Benefits Data Trust to scale its data-driven outreach and enrollment assistance to help low-income seniors and families access critical public benefits and services....

A recognized leader in the areas of democracy, civil society, peacebuilding, and humanitarian response, Lindborg currently serves as president and CEO of the United States Institute of Peace and previously held senior executive positions at Mercy Corps and USAID....

The gift from alumni Larry and Kayleen Ferguson includes a $25 million endowment for the college's operations and $25 million to fund construction of a teaching and research facility....

The company has outlined a plan to be "carbon negative" by 2030 and to remove from the environment, by 2050, the equivalent of all the carbon it has emitted since its founding in 1975....

With each foundation providing $3.6 million over three years, the funding will support the operations of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard and help build on the recent successes of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, which in 2019 released the first-ever image of a black hole....

A report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Campden Wealth found that 32 percent of global respondents in a survey of wealthy families have adopted a time-limited approach to their philanthropy....

The donation will support construction of a community recreation facility on the planned Obama Presidential Center campus in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side....

The grant to Yale University will support programs that center on questions of race in humanities teaching and scholarship at four universities....

The grant will support three years of research and restoration work on behalf of the endangered American chestnut, billions of which were killed by an invasive blight in the early twentieth century....

The foundation and the Benioff Ocean Initiative at UC Santa Barbara will award grants totaling $11 million over three years in support of programs in Asia, Africa, and the Americas focused on cleaning up major rivers and creating data-informed communication campaigns....

The gift from the family of board member Mary Anne Sammons Cree is the largest gift to date to United Way’s $100 million endowment campaign, which has raised more than $70 million....

Charles Tarr, who died twenty years ago, established a fund at the Nevada Community Foundation that, in a final distribution before sunsetting, provided support to seventeen nonprofits, including ten in southern Nevada....

The grant to the University of Pittsburgh and Remake Learning will support a network of educators of color and learning scientists representing school districts, institutions of higher education, museums, education research organizations, and ed tech providers....

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

The gift will support a comprehensive, multidisciplinary research program focused on advancing the diagnosis and development of next-generation therapies for Pompe disease....

The gift will support the development and national tour of The Bias Inside Us, an exploration of the history, science, and social effects of implicit bias....

Grants were awarded in the areas of arts and culture, religion, and education....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alabama, California, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, Nevada, and New Mexico....

The gift from Tadashi Yanai will endow an initiative he established at the university in 2014 that supports academic and cultural programming as well as student and faculty exchanges between UCLA and Waseda University....

Grants totaling $3.5 million were awarded to forty-one artists representing thirty-five projects in fifteen states and U.S. territories....

The grant to the International Vaccine Institute will support the development of international standards in the manufacture and distribution of low-cost oral cholera vaccines....

The grants will support partnerships between human services nonprofits and community colleges that connect students with critical resources and client families with postsecondary educational opportunities....