PepsiCo will invest $3 million over three years in Agua Para el Planeta, a program it operates in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy in Latin America, while the PepsiCo Foundation will invest $2.4 million in support of new drinking water access programs in the region....

Investments will support STEM education in the southern Dallas County independent school districts of Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and Lancaster....

The gift from John Paul and Eloise DeJoria will establish an endowed chair focused on improving health services for people who are experiencing homelessness, including best practices for providing integrated health care, mental health services, and social resources....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alaska, California, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island....

The gift will fund tuition for the 2021-22 academic year for the entire class of sixty students....

The ten-year commitment includes support for Comcast's Lift Zone initiative, which is working to establish WiFi-connected safe spaces in more than a thousand community centers nationwide, new donations of laptops and computers; grants for nonprofits working to create opportunities for low-income Americans; and continued investment in Internet Essentials....

The commitment includes $50 million for financial aid and scholarships and $50 million for critical investments in faculty and research, including a doubling of the school's faculty over the next decade....

Commitments of $150 million each from Schmidt Futures and the Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation will launch the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, an initiative of the Broad Institute aimed at catalyzing a new scientific discipline at the intersection of biology and machine learning....

Awarded through Balance the Equation: A Grand Challenge for Algebra 1, the foundation's first ever U.S. education Grand Challenge, the Phase 1 grants will support projects designed to transform Algebra I from a "gatekeeper" into a "gateway" to success....

The gift from businessman Carlos Alvarez and his family will be used to advance research-enhancing activities, including endowed faculty positions, graduate research fellowships, and undergraduate research programs....

The grant will support efforts to address the low participation rates of Black, Indigenous, and people of color in clinical cancer trials....

The three-year plan commits the organization to working "towards a future where communities of color can build wealth, live in healthy places filled with economic opportunity, and are ready to meet the challenges posed by climate change"....

The foundation's first round of competitive grants will support projects in the areas of arts and culture, conservation, education, health care, medical research, and youth development in the San Diego region....

The grant will support the expansion and enhancement of Furman Advantage, a Duke Endowment-funded program launched in 2016 that provides every student with a personalized four-year pathway to graduation that includes academic advising, mentoring, and career guidance....

Two hundred and forty high school seniors from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming will receive up to $25,000 a year in educational expenses to attend an accredited nonprofit college or university in the United States....

A report from Grantmakers in the Arts provides an overview of the “Solidarity Economy,” a community-controlled ecosystem based on five principles — cooperation, intersectional equity, participatory democracy, pluralism, and sustainability — and how grantmakers can help strengthen it by supporting Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) arts workers and culture-bearers....

The gift will support efforts to improve access to affordable, high-quality health care in the rural Midwest, including a significant expansion of graduate medical education, an investment in community health and wellness, and a planned virtual hospital....

The gift was made in recognition of the college's efforts during the pandemic to ensure that students could pursue their studies without interruption....

The grant will support a four-year capacity-building effort at the nonprofit founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma aimed at launching new music projects and expanding educational initiatives, with a focus on social justice and equity....

Awarded through the Southeast Michigan Resilience Fund, grants will support efforts to strengthen regional resilience through green infrastructure, preservation of the urban tree canopy, and riverbank and floodplain habitat restoration activities....

With the goal of improving health outcomes and the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in lower- and middle-income countries, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and USAID will jointly offer a training program designed to increase supply chain efficiency for medicines and healthcare supplies....

Borealis Philanthropy, the Center for Cultural Power, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures will regrant funds from the foundation to support immigrants' rights advocates, artists, writers, and nonprofits in preserving stories that reflect the dignity and truth of border communities....

To help close the racial wealth gap and achieve health equity for all Americans, the foundation, through its new Community Investment for Health Equity focus area, will more explicitly apply a racial justice lens to community investment, put greater emphasis on community intermediaries who can build effective community investment ecosystems benefiting low-wealth BIPOC communities, and support innovative models of community ownership....

The funds will be used by the Pensacola Bay Living Shoreline Project – White Island Habitat Restoration to construct emergent and submerged offshore breakwaters leading to the eventual creation of forty-five acres of marsh, fifteen acres of beach habitat, and ten acres of suitable habitat for natural recruitment of submerged aquatic vegetation....

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

Eighteen teams of entrepreneurs, learning scientists, and researchers will receive more than $1.5 million each to fund tools, technologies, platforms, and research that addresses a range of learning issues and goals....

Housed at and administered by the Global Fund for Children, the Funder Safeguarding Collaborative will support global efforts to prevent abuse and exploitation....

The gift from alumnus and trustee Mike Mussallem and his wife, Linda, will establish a scholarship program for students in northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland region....