Craig Newmark Philanthropies has pledged $1 million in support of STEM classroom projects, with $850,000 in matching funds, $100,000 for projects that help girls receive STEM resources, and $50,000 to spur use of the #STEMStories hashtag on Twitter....

Glover Blackwell founded PolicyLink, a national "research and action institute," in 1999 with the goal of driving policy solutions that advance racial and economic equity....

Fifty-three grants were awarded in support of clinical trials, research centers, and fellowships and career development opportunities for scientists focused on Parkinson's disease....

Of the gift, $10 million will support construction of a residential village, while the remaining $1,901 will launch a "1901 Society" of donors who have given $1 million or more to the university in their lifetimes....

A report from the Council on Foundations and Foundation Center found that international grantmaking by a thousand of the largest U.S. foundations increased from $7.2 billion in 2011 to a record $9.3 billion in 2015....

The estate gift will be applied to the college's endowment and help fund scholarships....

After years in limbo, a new trust has received final approval to redistribute funds left over from a class-action settlement in which the U.S. government agreed to pay compensation for discriminating against Native Americans....

The three-year, $20 million STOP (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products) initiative will be led by the University of Bath, the Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease....

According to the Chicago-based foundation's 2017 annual report, 94.9 percent of total contributions, or $220.7 million, came from individual donors....

The gift, which was not revealed until after Jean Hower Taber's death, will support the orchestra's programming as it enters its second century serving the Northeast Ohio community....

The latest grants boost the association's philanthropic giving since 1993 to $33.4 million....

The grant from the Troup Fund of the Kaleida Health Foundation will enable researchers to analyze patterns of liver disease and extract information that can be used in developing population health algorithms leading to the early identification of patients with liver disease or cancer....

The gift will help fund a new lion exhibit at the zoo in Sioux Falls, South Dakota....

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

The Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund will provide support for protection, restoration, and conservation of fish and wildlife habitat across the Delaware River watershed....

The grant from the Merck Foundation will support an initiative in West Virginia to reduce opioid overdoses and overdose deaths, improve access to substance abuse prevention and treatment services, and reduce the rising rates of HIV and hepatitis C infections....

The ninety grants will support organizations in the state working in the areas of the arts, education, the environment, and community development....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alaska, California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island....

The naming grants will leverage gifts from other donors to complete capital projects at six nonprofits in San Antonio....

The grant from Arcadia will support development of CC Search, which is designed to maximize discovery and use of openly licensed digital content....

A group of more than three hundred philanthropic leaders have called on the Trump administration to remove a citizenship question from the 2020 census....

The foundation awarded eighty-three grants totaling $17. 5 million in the areas of arts and culture, democracy, education, the environment, and gun violence prevention....

The Africa Netpreneur Prize program will award a total of $10 million over the next decade to a hundred entrepreneurs working to address the continent's most urgent challenges....

The twenty-four grants will support school-based prevention programs that equip students with the skills they need to navigate difficult choices around drug and alcohol use....

According to the 2017 Council on Foundations-Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations, private foundations and community foundations reported average returns of 15 percent and 15.1 percent....

With the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria's landfall in Puerto Rico approaching, seven new commitments were announced during the Clinton Global Initiative Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery meeting....

The cash will enable the company to bring its Apricot recommendation software to twenty cities....

The commitment will support construction of a seventeen-acre Community Care Campus in Decatur, Illinois, that promotes a multidisciplinary, multi-agency approach to addiction treatment....