In the fiscal year that ended June 30, grant dollars awarded by the largest Jewish donor-advised fund in the United States increased 17.5 percent, while the number of grants jumped 18 percent and the average grant amount rose 16 percent....

Awarded to Illumen Capital through the Soros Economic Development Fund, the funding will support an innovative strategy in which Illumen takes stakes in other impact investment funds and provides long-term, evidence-based coaching designed to help fund managers mitigate implicit biases that work against businesses owned by people of color and/or women....

Calvert has acquired five loans totaling $41 million originated by the eco.business Fund, enabling it to directly support financing for biodiversity conservation projects in Latin America....

The commitment from Atlanta Hawks principal owners Tony Ressler and his wife, actress Jami Gertz, is part of a $40 million investment in support of local African-American entrepreneurs and their businesses....

The single largest commitment in the foundation's history will focus on catalyzing private and concessional investments in efforts to scale distributed renewable energy across developing countries and ensuring more equitable access to COVID-19 data, tests and vaccines, and science-based tools....

The gift from Georgetown Law alumnus David Jacquin ('88) and his wife, Heidi, will create the Robert J. Henle, S.J. Scholarship program in honor of the late Jesuit priest and classics and philosophy professor who served as the university's president from 1969 to 1978....

The museum has come under fire for its plan to sell paintings by Andy Warhol, Brice Marden, and Clyfford Still to raise funds for the acquisition of art by women and artists of color, fund equity programs, and create an endowment in support of efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion....

The foundation awarded impact investments totaling $14.5 million to three organizations and grants totaling nearly $550,000 to fifty-one local organizations in the areas of COVID-19 relief, food insecurity, youth homelessness, and neighborhood improvement....

With the aim of bridging the worlds of business and science, the gift will fund curriculum development, faculty research, and programming, including the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program....

The gift will establish the Dalio Sustainable Market Principles Program, which in 2021 will offer courses in the universal principles of market behavior with the goal of enhancing the capabilities and expertise of policy makers and asset managers in the nation-state....

The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI's 2020 Global Philanthropy Tracker report found that  cross-border charitable giving by individuals, foundations, corporations, and other philanthropic organizations in 2018 accounted for 10.3 percent of the $658 billion in total non-governmental capital flows....

The Morgan Stanley HBCU Scholars program will fund four-year scholarships for sixty students across all disciplines and majors at Howard University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College....

Partnerships announced in conjunction with the launch of Building an Inclusive Recovery, a series of virtual convenings focused on racial, ethnic, tribal, economic, and health disparities pre- and post-pandemic, will support small businesses, invest in digital technology, and work to improve financial systems in underserved communities....

The fund will partner with Bloomberg Philanthropies to provide ten arts organizations on the island with bilingual arts management training and consulting services in the areas of fundraising, strategic planning, and digital marketing....

Created in partnership with the National Urban League, the Black Restaurant Accelerator will address systemic barriers faced by Black restaurateurs and provide them with training, mentorship, and access to capital....

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

Grants will support the India-based manufacture of testing materials, scalable testing programs, and data-driven efforts to strengthen pandemic surveillance....

The grant will enable Living Cities to hire additional staff to develop and manage an investment vehicle for fund managers of color interested in investing in underrepresented entrepreneurs....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Colorado, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin....

Twenty-nine grants of up to $400,000, plus an additional 20 percent in general operating support, were awarded to cultural projects across the city, while fellowships of $75,000 were awarded to a dozen artists in the disciplines of music, performance, visual art, film, poetry, and writing....

Through the Cummings $20 Million Grant Program, the foundation awarded grants ranging between $200,000 and $500,000 over ten years to thirty nonprofits in the greater Boston area....

The gift to the Student Freedom Initiative from the chair and CEO of Vista Equity Partners will support a family-centric, income-contingent payment alternative to high-cost, fixed-payment student debt for STEM students at historically black colleges and universities....

An analysis by the Center for Effective Philanthropy found that while 58 percent of foundation CEOs reported providing some multiyear general operating support, only 11 percent of those funders awarded such grants to more than half their grantees....

The lead gift in support of Tipping Point Community’s $100 million Chronic Homelessness Initiative will underwrite the development of a 145-unit building for people in the Bay Area experiencing homelessness....

The gift will support the development of AI-driven patient-centered solutions focused on the early detection of pancreatic cancer....

The grant will establish the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research and help drive a scientifically grounded, whole-person therapeutic approach to stuttering that targets core communication competencies....

Through the bank's New Skills at Work initiative, Boston, Columbus, Dallas, Indianapolis, and Nashville will receive $7 million each over five years to develop cross-sector partnerships, equitable pathways, and policy recommendations aimed at giving underserved students access to higher education and real-world work experiences....

The gift to the Foundation for California Community Colleges will fund scholarships and emergency financial aid for students experiencing unexpected financial hardship, with a focus on the three regions in the state with the lowest college attainment rates....