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Rutgers University-Camden receives $3.5 million for scholars program
The largest gift in the history of Rutgers University-Camden will establish the Rayman L. Solomon Scholars program and provide annual student financial support to high-achieving students committed to public service…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Colby College Museum of Art receives collection of photographs
The gift of more than five hundred photographs from the collection of alumni William (’68) and Nancy Meyer Tsiaras (’68) includes works by Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Pedro Abascal, Ansel Adams, and Barbara Norfleet…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Kirby Foundation announces $13.8 million in 2020 grants
The funding includes grants for COVID-19 relief and to nonprofit organizations working in the areas of arts and humanities, education, the environment, health and medicine, human services, public policy, and religion…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Virginia Tech announces $10 million gift from alumni couple
The commitment includes $7.4 million in support of the newly renamed Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics and a previously announced $1.5 million gift to help address food insecurity among students…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Lewis Prize for Music announces 2021 music education grants
Grants were awarded in support of efforts to provide young people with music education, strengthen their communities, and put music at the center of efforts to advance racial equity…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Starbucks commits $100 million for opportunity, equity, inclusion
With the goal of advancing racial equity and environmental resilience, the Starbucks Community Resilience Fund will invest $100 million by 2025 in small business growth and community development projects in BIPOC neighborhoods…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Parsons Foundation helps Semper Fi Fund raise $20 million for veterans
With the help of a $10 million matching challenge from the Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation, the Semper Fi & America’s Fund raised more than $20 million in support of wounded, critically ill, and injured post-9/11 service members and their families in 2020…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Governance Effectiveness: The Interaction of Ethno-Racial Diversity and Social Capital
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This research examines the relationship among Board Diversity, Social Capital, and Governance Effectiveness by asking, “does board ethno-racial diversity moderate the relationship between Social Capital and Governance Effectiveness, and if so, how?” Exploring the direct and interacting effects of demographic diversity and Social Capital, and their relation…
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Johns Hopkins Medicine receives $15 million from trustee
The gift to the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery will establish the David M. Rubenstein Precision Medicine Center of Excellence and support basic research focused on the development of therapeutic approaches to the preservation and restoration of hearing…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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TAWANI Foundation commits $2 million to Tulane University
The commitment includes a $1 million gift to establish the Audrey G. Ratner Excellence Endowed Fund for American Jewry and Jewish Culture in the School of Liberal Arts and a $1 million matching challenge…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Community Foundation Update (01/09/2021)
News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Philanthropy’s Role in a Better Future
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Greenham Trust launches ‘Laptops for Lockdown Learning’ fund to support underprivileged children’s home-schooling
Hosted on The Good Exchange platform, donations will be match-funded up to £250,000 to provide £500,000 for learning equipment across West Berkshire and beyond 8th January 2021 – Greenham Trust has today launched the ‘Laptops for Lockdown Learning’ appeal to give every child a laptop to learn under lockdown. Hosted on The Good Exchange, Greenham…
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Mark Foundation awards $8 million for collaborative research
Inaugural grants awarded by the Endeavor Award program will support research projects focused on preventing and overcoming metastasis, decoding the whole-body response to cancer, and understanding the molecular mechanisms of tumor plasticity and progression…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Motivations for Peer-Support Volunteering: Social Identities and Role-Identities as Sources of Motivation
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Motivations for volunteering described by functional theory are loosely related to the types and duration of these activities. The motivating effects of individuals’ social- and role-based identities may need inclusion. Identity theories suggest that entering a specific service activity depends on whether the service benefits a social…
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University Hospitals receives $7.5 million for maternal, neonatal unit
The commitment from board member Steve Potash and his wife, Loree, will establish the Steve and Loree Potash Women & Newborn Center at UH Ahuja Medical Center and launch a literacy program for infants and their families…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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National Gallery of Art acquires artworks from Souls Grown Deep
The forty works by twenty-one African-American artists include nine quilts by the artists of Gee’s Bend, Alabama; three paintings, three drawings, and a sculpture by Thornton Dial; works on paper by Nellie Mae Rowe, Henry Speller, Georgia Speller, and Royal Robertson; and four sculpted heads by James “Son Ford” Thomas…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post…