The cosmology prize was awarded to Marc Kamionkowski, Uroš Seljak, and Matias Zaldarriaga, who developed techniques essential for studying the early universe, while the neuroscience prize went to Christine Petit and Christopher A. Walsh for their work on the mechanisms involved with hearing and hearing loss and the development of the cerebral cortex and genetic brain disorders....

The gift from Anu and Satya Nadella and their family will enable the hospital to improve care for children with neurological conditions and advance its efforts in four areas: attracting and retaining leaders in precision medicine; building a robust clinical trial program; expanding mental health initiatives; and establishing the Zain Nadella Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurosciences....

The grants will help fund outreach and advocacy efforts by AAPI-led and -focused nonprofits aimed at addressing the increase in hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islanders....

The report from the Boston College Law School Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good found that the share of individual giving going to charities fell from 94.1 percent before the advent of donor-advised funds to less than 75 percent between 2014 and 2018, with an estimated $300 billion that otherwise might have gone to charities going into DAFs and foundations....

The Stephanie Brooks Dains and John Dains Student Success Fund will cover costs for students with financial need that fall outside the parameters of the standard financial aid package....

The gift will be split evenly among three areas of need — student financial aid, athletics, and improvements to campus infrastructure....

The aerospace giant's commitment will provide funding for student scholarships, the recruitment of top faculty and researchers, and STEM pathway programs for underserved K-12 students looking to pursue a college degree and a post-college career in tech....

Awarded through the foundation's Re-envisioning Permanent Collections: An Initiative for US Museums, the grants will provide support for permanent collection reinstallation planning and implementation as well as the development of temporary exhibitions drawn from museum collections....

According to a statement from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda will remain co-chairs and trustees of the foundation and will continue to work together to shape and approve its strategies, advocate for its issues, and set the organization's overall direction....

Grants ranging from $200,000 to $400,000 were awarded to twenty-nine nonprofits in support of programs that address key drivers of health, many of which have been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic....

The investment in Operation HOPE will support a four-year expansion of efforts to provide financial coaching and tools at a thousand Truist branches and provide support to Black-owned businesses....

The $125 million raised from founding board members and an additional $125 million from foundations, corporations, and individuals will support efforts to mobilize action against hate and violence and build the infrastructure needed to improve AAPI advocacy, power, and representation in American society....

As part of its emergency response to the pandemic, the Global Fund is fast-tracking a funding application from India's Country Coordinating Mechanism for the purchase of oxygen concentrators and to help finance Pressure Swing Adsorption oxygen plants to help meet the medium-term needs for medical oxygen....

A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations found that while foundations have begun to more intentionally integrate equity into their program, governance, operational, and investment decisions, most have not done so with regard to their evaluation practices....

The commitment from entrepreneur and ocean advocate Francis E. Fowler includes a $25 million planned bequest and $3 million to jumpstart operations of the Francis E. Fowler IV Center for Ocean and Climate....

A $25 million gift from Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman and a $50 million bequest from an anonymous donor will support the Program in Breakthrough Biomedical Research and the UCSF Discovery Fellows Program....

Bank of America will partner with Enterprise Community Partners to provide $30 million in loans and $30 million in equity financing to directly source, structure, and close deals with BIPOC developers seeking flexible capital....

The gift from Charles Marcon will establish an institute dedicated to preparing and deploying undergraduate scholars to work on racial justice issues in the community....

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

The awards provide support for junior faculty who are committed to the creation of an inclusive campus community for underrepresented students and scholars and whose research focuses on contemporary American history, politics, culture, and society....

With his wife, Broad established the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation in 1999, was a founding signatory to the Giving Pledge in 2010, and gave an estimated $6.4 billion to philanthropic causes in his lifetime, with a focus on the arts, education, and scientific and medical research....

To help qualified job seekers with arrest or conviction records, the financial services firm will partner with community groups in in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Chicago, Nashville, Columbus, Ohio, and other cities to provide job seekers with legal services, job search support, and mentoring....

The foundation will invest in predominantly women-led programs focused on protecting "humankind, animalkind, and plantkind"....

The foundation will award grants in support of efforts to address learning inequities and mitigate the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and families in the state....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Washington....

The grant — the largest ever made by the foundation — will launch the Center for Shared Prosperity at Carnegie Mellon University and support efforts to develop a sustainable, replicable model for community-university collaboration, with a focus on socioeconomic inequities and the well-being of people and families in western Pennsylvania....

Over the next five years, biotech firm Illumina will donate next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms, reagents, and training resources worth $60 million in support of an initiative aimed at creating a global early-warning system for pathogens....

Stewart Butterfield and Jen Rubio, the co-founders and CEOs of Slack and Away, respectively, have pledged $25 million to UNICEF USA in support of the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and are calling on other tech leaders to step up as well....