The commitments include $3 million to Black Ambition, a new racial equity and entrepreneurship initiative launched by Pharrell Williams; $1.5 million to LISC to help boost small business resiliency for women entrepreneurs of color; and $300,000 to VC Include, which provides education and training to venture capital funds led by Black, Latinx, Indigenous, people of color, and women....

The funding will support efforts to reduce barriers and increase access to food assistance for individuals facing hunger across the United States....

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

Grants were awarded in the areas of the arts, digital excellence, economic development, education, the environment, leadership development, neighborhood revitalization, racial equity, and health and human services....

Grants were awarded to more than a hundred organizations in Wisconsin working to strengthen the arts, communities and families, and education....

The gift from the charitable foundation established by Cerberus Capital Management co‐founder and co‐CEO Stephen Feinberg will fund a program that provides need‐based scholarships to students with financial challenges....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and the U.S. Virgin Islands....

The pledge follows a commitment of $25 million by Bezos in May, bringing his total support for the effort to $50 million....

The gift will name the Blavatnik Fine Rooms, which are scheduled to open in late 2021 as part of the renovated Courtauld Gallery and will showcase many of the highlights of the institute's collection....

The gift will support annual operating costs and enhancements to the museum's twelve-acre campus....

Funded in collaboration with several foundations, biotechnology companies, and other organizations, grants were awarded in support of blood cancer research at cancer centers and research institutes in the United States and Australia....

Grants ranging from $74,000 to $2 million were awarded to thirty-one organizations working to address housing insecurity and advance racial justice across New York City....

The grants will support organizations working to address barriers to health and wellness in historically marginalized communities, Black leaders and Black-led solutions, and policy advocacy organizations working to advance the movement for health equity and racial justice in California....

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awarded grants to five organizations in support of efforts to advance racial equity, strengthen tribal identity, and improve mental wellness for youth in marginalized communities impacted by COVID-19....

The foundation awarded a hundred and eighty-six grants in support of the arts and humanities, higher education, and cultural organizations impacted by the economic fallout  from the COVID-19 pandemic....

Funding was awarded to Brooklyn-based Black leaders tackling the root causes of racial disparities in health care, climate policy, education, journalism, and the criminal justice system....

The Black Economic Development Fund was established to support Black-led financial institutions, anchor institutions, and businesses working to strengthen rural and urban Black communities....

An increase in the foundation's 2021 grantmaking to between $115 million and $120 million will support work that makes tangible the organization's deepened commitment to racial equity....

The biopharmaceutical company's Racial Equity Community Impact Fund will provide $10 million in grants over three years to twenty organizations working to advance community advocacy and mobilization, educational innovations, and social innovations....

The foundation established in 1913 by Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller is taking steps that will more than halve its endowment's total exposure to fossil fuels to less than 1 percent in the near future.... 

Nineteen fellows — a mix of artists, advocates, organizers, and researchers dedicated to advancing criminal justice reforms in the United States — from eight states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico will receive stipends of between $57,500 and $127,500 for full-time projects lasting twelve to eighteen months....

Morehouse School of Medicine and CommonSpirit have announced a $21 million commitment over two years to seed a ten-year, $100 million initiative aimed at recruiting and training more Black physicians....

New signatories include Ron and Gayle Conway, Yan Huo and Xue Fang, José Ferreira Neves, Chad Richison, and Jeff and Marieke Rothschild....

The addition of Jackson, Mississippi, and Baltimore to the Rockefeller Opportunity Collective (ROC) boosts the number of locations participating in the initiative to twelve....

The nine-figure gift from alumna and former Noyce Foundation board chair Ann S. Bowers ('59) will support construction of a new building for the Faculty of Computing and Information Science and provide significant endowment support for CIS faculty and students....

The co-founder, board chair, and chief strategist of Partners in Health was honored for his "impactful work at the intersection of public health and human rights" over a nearly thirty-year career....

Grants were awarded to help arts and cultural institutions in Charlotte, Miami, St. Paul, and San Jose adapt, innovate, and promote equity during the COVID-19 pandemic through digital and other enhancements in technology....

The latest round of pandemic relief grants awarded by the Pittsburgh-based foundation will support food banks in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, restaurant workers feeding the food insecure, and local arts and cultural groups....