After extensive discussion and debate, the foundation's chief executive and board concluded that an impartial standard for determining whether a nonprofit's work should disqualify it for a grant does not exist....

The commitment of AU$2.5 million from the Crown Resorts Foundation and AU$1.5 million from the Packer Family Foundation will support volunteer fire agencies, relief services, and wildlife charities in New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia....

To be launched at West Virginia University-Parkersburg and Blue Ridge Community and Technical College, the program will provide students with support services and resources to help them complete their degrees and move into well-paying jobs....

With funding from foundations, corporations, and individuals, the organization provided targeted, localized grants in response to several major natural disasters, including the Camp Fire in California, Hurricane Dorian, and Cyclone Idai....

The promised gift from trustee Philip Maritz and his wife, Jennifer, includes daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, ambrotypes, tintypes, albumen silver prints, cyanotypes, platinum prints, and gelatin silver prints from the collection of Drew Knowlton and William L. Schaeffer....

An annual report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that while the percentage of women among directors of top-grossing films rose in 2019, that of male and female directors from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups fell....

On December 27, Tim Cook transferred 6,880 shares of stock in the technology company worth an estimated $2 million to an unnamed charity....

Cedars-Sinai broadened eligibility for free and discounted care to those earning up to 400 percent and 600 percent of the federal poverty level, the most generous policy among the ten largest nonprofit hospitals in California....

The gift will serve as the cornerstone of a capital campaign in support of the Ken and Grace Solinsky Center....

Despite fairly strong economic growth over the last three years, giving by individuals in the aggregate is down since 2017, when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act doubled the standard deduction, disincentivizing many people from itemizing their returns....

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

To be matched dollar-for-dollar by a state matching funds program, the gift will establish the F.E. "Tut" and V. Diane Ellis President's Endowed Scholarship for engineering students from Wyoming....

The gift will support health programs and services at St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center, which serves central Idaho....

The gift from Fred and Alice Stanback will fund scholarships for students who enroll in the fall of 2020 and plan to major in the humanities, a field related to the environment and sustainability, or education....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Washington, D.C....

The funds will advance construction of the Idaho Center for Plant and Soil Health, which, when completed, will feature modern labs and equipment supporting research in agronomy, entomology, nematology, plant pathology, and pomology....

The Minnesota Helps – Drake Hotel Fire Recovery Fund has been established in response to a fire at the Francis Drake Hotel on Christmas Day that left more than two hundred of the city's most vulnerable residents without shelter....

The gift from writer, producer, and director Greg Berlanti will endow a professorship in writing for the screen and stage....

Awarded ahead of the tenth anniversary of the earthquake that devastated parts of Haiti, the grant will support mobile clinics, outreach efforts in rural communities, and other initiatives in the country's south....

Donations made through the social media platform on #GivingTuesday in December fell to $120 million, from $125 million in 2018....

The gift from PVH Corp. will establish an academic hub in the university's Gabelli School of Business dedicated to advancing the study of corporate responsibility and sustainability....

In the wake of several attacks on Jewish communities in the New York metro area, Mitchell D. Silber has been named executive director of the Community Security Initiative, a $4 million effort to improve security at Jewish institutions in and around the city....

Investments from JPMorgan Chase and the Julian Grace Foundation will be used by the organization to provide one-on-one financial coaching and personal loans to low-income families in Illinois....

Awarded through eight foundations for which the bank serves as a trustee or agent, the grants include nearly $3.2 million through the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts, $1.75 million through the Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund, and $70,000 through the Stillson Foundation....

The gift will support needed repairs and upgrades, a college scholarship fund, and the purchase of a virtual reality system....

Spurred in part by a 50/50 raffle program at Dodger Stadium that raised more than $3.8 million, the foundation awarded grants to more than a hundred organizations working in the areas of education, health and wellness, and sports and recreation....

Before he passed away, former Honeywell president James Binger stipulated that the limited-life foundation distribute the entirety of its assets to four institutions within two decades….

Grants were awarded in support of efforts to advance childhood nutrition across the Twin Cities region….