Twenty community leaders working to end anti-Black racism in the United States and South Africa will receive space to reflect and engage with new thinking, access to a transnational network of leaders in the racial equity field, coaching, and up to $20,000 in support of their efforts....

The grants will support civic leadership, unbiased media coverage of health issues, and community philanthropy in the state....

Founded in 1988, by Fr. Gregory Boyle, S.J., Homeboy Industries is a gang intervention, rehab, and re-entry program.

Awarded to cancer research scientists and physician-scientists based in the greater New York area, the prize provides $200,000 annually for up to three years in support of research at a stage where traditional funding is lacking....

Grants totaling $8.5 million were awarded through the Ken Griffin Alpha-Synuclein Imaging Competition to teams from AC Immune, Mass General Brigham, and Merck working to develop an imaging tracer that can help clinicians visualize the protein in the living brain....

The awards include support for nine research projects, five dissertations, and one white paper, with supported topics ranging from officer-involved shootings, to intimate partner gun violence, to the risks and benefits of gun ownership and use....

The commitment will support workforce-readiness programs, local employee-led initiatives, and efforts to diversify technology and entrepreneurship talent pipelines....

A study commissioned by the African American Leadership Alliance Milwaukee found that of the fifty largest U.S. metro areas, Milwaukee ranks last or near the bottom for Black well-being across nearly thirty indicators....

The bequest from the estate of Elaine Krown Klein, who died in January, will bolster a fine arts scholarship fund she and her late husband established at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture in 1986....

Over the next six months, teams from around the world will compete to achieve clinical validation from labs in the United States, with the top five teams winning $1 million each....

The largest single gift in the hospital's history will support substantial renovations to the hospital's Heart and Vascular Institute....

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

Made in honor of clinical professor emeritus John L. Ward, the gift from the Tanoto Foundation will rename the Center for Family Enterprises at the Kellogg School of Management the John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises....

The grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support additional research on the impacts of COVID-19 on women's health and social and economic welfare....

Established in 2004 to honor the late James H. Gilliam, Jr., the program will provide forty-five doctoral students and their advisers with an award of $50,000 a year for up to three years to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Ohio....

The largest gift in Xavier's 95-year-history will enable the university to expand scholarships, endow new faculty positions, and make much-needed investments in sustaining its mission as the nation’s only Catholic and historically black university....

Conducted in cooperation with some of the nation's largest faith-based nonprofit organizations, the report from DickersonBakker found that 85 percent of donors expect to maintain or increase their charitable giving between now and year-end....

The gift from King Philanthropies will launch the King Climate Action Initiative at MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab....

This year's list features twelve newcomers, including Alicia Garza of Black Lives Matter and Rajiv Shah of the Rockefeller Foundation, while seven executives are returning to the list after an absence of at least a year....

The grant, which builds on a five-year, $25 million partnership launched in 2016, will fund efforts to enhance care and support programs, provide educational materials to the financial services firm's clients and associates, and advance critical research....

U.S.-based foundations announcing commitments recently in support of COVID-19 relief and response efforts include the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Teagle Foundation, and Brees Dream Foundation....

In addition to $620,000 in grants it has already provided to help sustain local small businesses during the pandemic, the community foundation pledged $15 million of its own resources and will work to raise an additional $15 million in support of racial equity and inclusion initiatives in the region....

A report from the Institute for Policy Studies argues that the shift from broad-based support by a wide range of donors to dependence on a handful of the wealthiest funders poses risks to the charitable sector's independence and sustainability....

Launched in March, the fund was administered by the New York Community Trust, which managed more than $73 million in grant funding, with the Nonprofit Finance Fund issuing and managing another $37 million in no-interest loans....

With the goal of helping 1.15 million eligible older adults enroll in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over two years, NCOA will fund outreach efforts by forty community-based organizations as well as its own online benefits checkup tool.... 

The gift from an African-American entrepreneur and philanthropist who wishes to remain anonymous will provide support for the university’s academic and athletic programs....

Scott (formerly Bezos) has announced the recipients of general operating support grants totaling $1.67 billion awarded since she signed the Giving Pledge fourteen months ago....