The report from the Boston College Law School Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good found that the share of individual giving going to charities fell from 94.1 percent before the advent of donor-advised funds to less than 75 percent between 2014 and 2018, with an estimated $300 billion that otherwise might have gone to…

Awarded through the foundation’s Re-envisioning Permanent Collections: An Initiative for US Museums, the grants will provide support for permanent collection reinstallation planning and implementation as well as the development of temporary exhibitions drawn from museum collections…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

As part of its emergency response to the pandemic, the Global Fund is fast-tracking a funding application from India’s Country Coordinating Mechanism for the purchase of oxygen concentrators and to help finance Pressure Swing Adsorption oxygen plants to help meet the medium-term needs for medical oxygen…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Bank of America will partner with Enterprise Community Partners to provide $30 million in loans and $30 million in equity financing to directly source, structure, and close deals with BIPOC developers seeking flexible capital…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

With his wife, Broad established the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation in 1999, was a founding signatory to the Giving Pledge in 2010, and gave an estimated $6.4 billion to philanthropic causes in his lifetime, with a focus on the arts, education, and scientific and medical research…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Washington…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Investments of $25 million and $5 million from anonymous donors will help launch the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, building on the university’s existing strengths in Alzheimer’s disease research…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Facebook, Global Citizen, and other partner organizations, the Go Give One campaign calls for donations to the COVID-19 Vaccines Advance Market Commitment (COVAX AMC), a financing mechanism created by GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, to ensure equitable access to vaccines in low- and middle-income countries…. Philanthropy News…

To be launched in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, the Community Empowerment Program will support efforts by nonprofit organizations serving BIPOC youth, as well as those led by people of color, to bridge gaps in health, wealth, and opportunity driven by racial inequity…. Philanthropy…

The awards include $250,000 to address food insecurity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and $17.8 million in support of digital equity and access initiatives…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Of awarded grants, 89 percent went to minority-owned business, 67 percent went to woman-owned businesses, and 67 percent were awarded in under-resourced communities…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Launched last summer in an effort to reinvent child welfare across the United States, the Thriving Families initiative will expand its efforts to jurisdictions in Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and White Earth Nation…. Philanthropy News Digest…

The collaboration includes more than $10 million in assets over the next three years, including guest lectures, curriculum content, digital badges, software, and faculty training…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>