The commitment builds on Mastercard’s support for global COVID-19 response and includes data resources, grants, and employee volunteers…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The commitment will support scholarships for an additional hundred and sixty nursing students over the next five years through the Conway Scholars program, providing tuition assistance, housing and stipends to complete internships, as well as preparation and review courses for their national licensing exams…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The investment includes funding to expand the foundation’s PD GENEration initiative to Hispanic and Caribbean communities, expand Parkinson’s disease research, accelerate palliative care efforts, and test new models of hospital care delivery…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alaska, Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The commitments of $20 million from Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies and $5 million from the Community Investment Guarantee Pool will advance racial equity in housing by helping to unlock capital for BIPOC housing developers…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

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 >>