The gift from Scott C. Schurz will support scientific research projects, pilot studies in emerging fields of sexological research, and partnerships with IU schools and departments....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Connecticut, Hawai'i, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, and Wisconsin....

Awarded through the foundation's Global Health Innovation Grants program, the grants will support efforts to reduce health disparities, strengthen health systems, and overcome infectious diseases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America....

David Koch, who retired in June 2018 as executive vice president of Koch Industries, gave a total of $1.3 billion over his lifetime and had a significant impact on America politics through the donor networks he built with his older brother Charles....

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will auction more than three hundred works from a collection of nearly thirteen hundred pieces donated in 2015 — which the Irvings agreed the museum could sell as long as the proceeds funded future acquisitions....

The grants will support long-term recovery efforts in communities affected by the California wildfires and hurricanes Florence and Michael in 2018 and Harvey in 2017....

The nine awardees will receive grants of up to $100,000 each in support of their innovations in sexual and reproductive health care....

With a focus on underserved students in grades three through eight, the program will support efforts to boost math learning by strengthening executive function skills such as self-control and the ability to pay attention, keep track of ideas, and think flexibly....

Since it was established in 1960, the foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $300 million....

Immigration advocacy group America's Voice calls on the Foundation for the Carolinas to stop all funding to organizations that promote anti-immigrant policies, return any funds designated to these groups in future years, and launch an independent review of its management and internal controls....

The funding from the Burke Foundation will support two programs rooted in providing community service — the Trinity Fellows program for graduate students and the Burke Scholars program for undergraduate students....

Supported by the Columbia University Justice Lab, with funding from Arnold Ventures, Galaxy Gives, and the Tikkun Olam Foundation, the initiative, EXiT: Executives Transforming Probation & Parole, aims to help reduce the under-supervision population and target resources currently dedicated to probation and parole more effectively....

The foundations awarded eighty-one grants to organizations in twenty-seven states working in the areas of education, health, social services, and cultural activities....

The gift from a family that has chosen to remain anonymous is in addition to an eight-year, $10 million commitment from Brevard County in support of the project, which would be developed on a fourteen-acre site at Port Canaveral....

Based on an analysis of giving by Fidelity Charitable donor-advised fund account holders in thirty metropolitan areas, the report, 2019 Geography of Giving, ranked the top ten cities for giving in eight issue areas....

Awarded to the Educate for Opportunity project, the funding will support teams in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Wyoming working to align postsecondary institutions in those states with local workforce needs....

The naming gift from Jugal and Manju Taneja will help fund the move of the USF Health Taneja College of Pharmacy to the new USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute facility currently under construction in downtown Tampa....

Awarded to incoming first-year students majoring in interactive media studies, with a preference to those with demonstrated financial need, the scholarships will be renewal for up to four years....

Founded in Athens, Greece, in 2009 to address critical gaps in the reception and integration of migrants, refugees, and unaccompanied children, METAdrasi has provided more than 1.4 million interpreting sessions and helped support more than twelve thousand unaccompanied migrant children....

A report from the Vera Institute of Justice and the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge calls for shifting policing practices, which have become "an expressway to jail," away from an overreliance on punitive enforcement for low-level offenses....

According to the 2018 Council on Foundations – Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations, private foundations reported an average return of -3.5 percent for 2018, down from 15 percent in 2017, while community foundations reported an average return of -5.3 percent, down from 15.1 percent....

A report from the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund and Groundswell Fund found that the historically high voter turnout in 2018 was driven by a 37 percent increase in turnout among women of color....

The gift from the Amgen Foundation will endow graduate fellowships in the university's combined biochemistry and molecular biophysics degree program....

The grant to the Indianapolis-based Mind Trust will support efforts to ensure that new schools in the city are launched with high-quality teachers and leaders....

The funds will enable GiveDirectly to provide cash transfers to more than twenty-four hundred families after a natural disaster hits and better identify and support the people most in need during each phase of the recovery process....

Five organizations committed to person-centered, outcomes-based work will receive grants of $250,000 to advance racial equity using a two-generation, whole family approach....

 The gift from an anonymous donor will support multidisciplinary research, engagement initiatives, the hiring of faculty, and an expansion of an interdisciplinary training program....

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