The gift from board member Judith B. Hale, her son, Robert T. Hale, Jr., and his wife, Karen Hale, will support the Hale Family Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, with a focus on early detection and prevention, and precision medicine and biology....

A survey by the RAND Corporation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that 42 percent of respondents agreed that systemic racism was one of the main reasons  people of color experience poorer health outcomes....

The report from the GivingTuesday Data Commons found that while overall fundraising revenue and the number of donors increased, donor retention rates and median revenue for nonprofits in the survey declined across all categories....

The Carlson Centennial Scholars Program will award scholarship packages to undergraduate and graduate students and provide stipends for international study experiences and specialized programming....

According to a report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the TIAA Institute, private nonprofit schools that are smaller, less competitive, tuition-dependent, and/or have relatively small endowments are consistently identified as financially vulnerable, but they could strengthen their financial position by redirecting resources from student recruitment to retention....

Launched last June, the $100 million fund awarded multiyear grants in support of social justice and anti-racist initiatives across Africa and Latin America, as well as in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States....

Housed at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund will support a broad-based movement for care that includes paid leave, child care and early education, long-term services and supports for older adults and people with disabilities, and high-quality jobs for all care workers....

The gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies will establish the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative and provide permanent funding for the creation of a hundred new spots for diverse PhD students in JHU's more than thirty STEM programs....

The foundation awarded grants totaling $6.9 million to address health disparities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and increase the flow of capital to traditionally undercapitalized investment managers and entrepreneurs....

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that OSF plans to dedicate an additional $75 million to its network of foundations and programs in a hundred and twenty countries, while consolidating grantmaking programs in its global headquarters and cutting two hundred jobs....

The commitment will enable MSF to continue to provide and scale the delivery of primary health care in the country and distribute medical relief items in response to urgent health needs there....

The commitment builds on Mastercard's support for global COVID-19 response efforts and includes data resources, grants, and employee volunteers....

The commitments include a $20 million fund in support of nonprofits working to slow the spread of COVID-19 and $15 million in grants to local environmental and community organizations in the United State and Canada....

The strategy doubles down on the foundation's efforts to advance racial equity and economic mobility and will include new investments in criminal justice reform, efforts to address COVID’s impact on public education, and protecting the region’s groundwater from pollution....

The ten-year funding initiative is dedicated to strengthening grassroots movements fighting to keep oil and gas in the ground and eliminate the fossil fuel industry's sources of financial support....

The commitment will support scholarships, housing assistance, and internship stipends for an additional hundred and sixty nursing students over the next five years....

According to surveys conducted by Fidelity Charitable of more than four thousand individuals who gave at least $1,000 in the previous year, donors are embracing new approaches to giving and reconsidering what constitutes being philanthropic....

The bequest from Tina Sweeney (M.A. '49), who died in April 2020 at the age of 92, will support efforts to expand opportunities for Clark students and create music programming for children in Worcester, Massachusetts....

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

The investment includes funding to expand the foundation's PD GENEration initiative to Hispanic and Caribbean communities, expand Parkinson's disease research, accelerate palliative care efforts, and test new models of hospital care delivery....

The gift from Mickey Shapiro, Steven and Margie Shapiro, and Edward Shapiro honors the memory of their parents, Sara and Asa Shapiro, both Holocaust survivors....

The funding includes $4 million for need-based scholarships; $394,000 for academic program development and expansions; $240,000 in support of developing an artist-in-residence program; $120,000 in support of paid internships; and more than $2.8 million for the Windgate Art and Design Building Facility Endowment....

To be administered by the department of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Research Support Fund will support efforts to develop treatments optimized to individual patient's neurodegenerative disability....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alaska, Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin....

The commitments include more than $3 million in grants from Google.org to nearly forty organizations working to ensure the safety of and equity for the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community....

Led by the Wallace Global Fund and the Marguerite Casey, Nathan Cummings, and Woodcock foundations, a group of national foundations is calling on their asset managers to use their power as corporate shareholders to advance racial justice....

Grants were awarded through the foundation's Coronavirus Emergency Support Grant program to community-based emergency response funds, healthcare providers, hospitals, nursing homes, and Catholic Charities affiliates serving all faiths....

The commitments of $20 million from Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies and $5 million from the Community Investment Guarantee Pool will advance racial equity in housing by helping to unlock capital for BIPOC housing developers....