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  • AAPI Civic Engagement Fund awards $7.5 million to build power

    Grants included $4.7 million in general operations grants to local- and state-based AAPI groups in eighteen states; Anti-Racism and Intersectional Justice grants totaling $2 million to community-based organizations; and inaugural Creative Content grants totaling $450,000 in support of collaborations between AAPI civic engagement groups and independent artists…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

  • Dartmouth receives $20 million for STEM initiatives

    The gift, which honors the legacy of E.E. Just, an African-American trailblazer and Dartmouth alumnus, will enhance the representation, success, and leadership of historically underrepresented groups in STEM…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering receives $20 million for lung cancer research

    The gift from the Ge Li and Ning Zhao Family Foundation will establish an initiative aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the biology of lung cancer and developing new targeted therapies to overcome drug resistance and prevent metastasis…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

  • People in the News (05/16/2021): appointments, promotions, obituaries

    The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

  • Community Foundation Update (05/15/2021)

    News and staff announcements from community foundations in Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

  • A majority of Americans support boosting federal spending on health

    A report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that 71 percent of respondents supported a substantial increase in federal spending on the nation’s public health programs, while 72 percent said the activities of public health agencies are “extremely” or “very” important to the health of the…

  • University of Minnesota launches $50 million student scholarship fund

    The Carlson Centennial Scholars Program will award scholarship packages to undergraduate and graduate students and provide stipends for international study experiences and specialized programming…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

  • Johns Hopkins launches $150 million effort to boost diversity in STEM

    The gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies will establish the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative and provide permanent funding for the creation of a hundred new spots for diverse PhD students in JHU’s more than thirty STEM programs…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

  • Mastercard commits $25 million for global vaccine access, distribution

    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 >>

  • Catholic University receives $20 million for nursing program

    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 >>

  • Parkinson's Foundation announces $10 million for research, education

    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 >>

  • Community Foundation Update (05/08/2021)

    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 >>

  • Enterprise Community Partners receives $25 million for racial equity

    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 >>

  • DAFs may have cost charities $300 billion over five years, study finds

    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…

  • Terra Foundation awards nearly $2.5 million in grants

    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 >>

  • Global Fund allocates $75 million for COVID response in India

    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 invests $60 million in racial equality in housing

    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 >>

  • Philanthropist Eli Broad dies at 87

    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 >>

  • Community Foundation Update (05/01/2021)

    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 >>

  • Brown University receives $30 million for Alzheimer's research

    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 >>