Launched in February, the fellowship program recognizes leaders, experts, and practitioners who are dedicated to developing public spaces that create or strengthen civic engagement....

The bequest from Bill and Rosann Nunnelly will provide support for scholarships, with preference given to students from Hickman County, where Bill Nunnelly grew up....

As president and CEO since 2001, Vega-Marquis has led the foundation's efforts to build a national movement of low-income families advocating for a more just and equitable society....

The investments will support a new fund dedicated to new ventures, the development of talent, and research focused on education innovation....

The gift from alumnus Edward J. "Ward" Fitzgerald and his wife, Kathryn, will support a new interdisciplinary institute that offers courses for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, including a university-wide minor that combines theoretical knowledge with practical skills....

Announced during the Genesis Prize award ceremony in Jerusalem last week, the Foundation for Social Media Messaging Against Anti-Semitism has been seeded with $20 million from Kraft and $5 million each from two other donors....

In its latest funding round, the foundation awarded grants in support of fifty-seven initiatives, including $7.2 million to Harvard University, which will use the funds to launch the Black Hole Initiative, the first worldwide center dedicated to the study of black holes....

The grants will launch the Seed Networks for the Human Cell Atlas in support of an international effort to map all cells in the human body....

Twenty grants were awarded through initiatives focused on low-income workers in California and in support of the foundation's priority grantmaking areas....

The gift from Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle and his wife, Mary, will support a biomedical data science center launched jointly by the University of Oregon and Oregon Health & Science University....

The unrestricted gift from businessman Jerry Wordsworth will support the school's mission to prepare outstanding lawyer-leaders....

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

The grant to the NewSchools Venture Fund will help fund strategies and programs designed to enhance the recruitment, development, and retention of underrepresented teachers of color....

The grants from the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundations, F.R. Bigelow Foundation, and Mardag Foundation will support organizations working to enrich the lives of the state's youth....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington....

The gift will establish the Bess Family Dean's Chair of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and help incentivize innovation around the college's strategic initiatives and emerging priorities....

Now in its ninth edition, the 2019 Annual Impact Investor Survey found that most respondents said their investments had met or exceeded expectations for impact and financial performance....

Thirty-two scholars hailing from twenty-eight countries were selected for the year-long program, in which emerging leaders with a proven commitment to service work acquire the tools needed to make their efforts more effective upon their return home....

Gifts to the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and the USC School of Cinematic Arts will be used to promote diversity and ethics in entertainment and preserve television history....

The gift from the Saverin family will create the Saverin Breast Cancer Research Fund in support of research on treatments and a cure for stage IV metastatic breast cancer....

The "no wrong door approach" removes barriers for those seeking medication-assisted treatment (MAT), an evidence-based approach to opioid addiction that usually includes both medication and behavioral therapy....

The gift will establish the Jona Goldrich Center for Alzheimer's and Memory Disorders, which will work to develop patient-care therapies that address challenges facing those with Alzheimer's disease and other memory disorders....

The grants through Google.org are in addition to a $1 billion commitment by the company in support of affordable housing that includes a plan to repurpose land it owns as residential housing....

The single largest donation to the university since the Renaissance will establish the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities and bring the humanities disciplines at Oxford together for the first time....

Based on a global survey of more than a hundred and forty thousand people, the report found that those struggling financially in upper-middle- and high-income countries are less likely to have confidence in hospitals and clinics than those in low-income or lower-middle-income countries....

Produced by the Giving USA Foundation and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, the annual study found that giving by individuals, corporations, and foundations totaled an estimated $427.71 billion, a decline of 1.7 percent on a year-over-year inflation-adjusted basis....

Supported by $12 million in investments from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Ballmer Group, the ten cities will work to develop, pilot, and measure the impacts of interventions that accelerate economic mobility for their residents....

Nominated by leading academic institutions and researchers nationwide, the twenty-two scholars will receive four years of support for exploratory research dedicated to advancing human health....