The commitment will establish the Walther Cancer Foundation Bioinformatics Fund in support of bioinformatics personnel, technology, and tools  at Purdue’s center for Cancer Research and the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The gift from Warner and Debbie Lusardi, the largest in the hospital’s history, will fund construction of a three-story, 224,000-square-foot facility and support a broad range of patient care services…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Administered by United States Artists, the only national multidisciplinary award program honoring disabled artists and creative practitioners will support twenty fellows with grants of $50,000 to advance their practice…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The gift — the largest in the history of Missouri higher education — will establish a new not-for-profit foundation, the Kummer Institute Foundation, and support several new initiatives, including the Kummer School of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

To be managed by Lever for Change, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity 2030 challenge will seek solutions aimed at creating transformative change in the systems and institutions that perpetuate inequity…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The funding will support work by foundation partners in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa and is in addition to the more than $130 million Open Society pledged in April to address the impacts of the coronavirus…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The gift will provide annual awards of $30,000 to sixty-five athletes over the next Olympic cycle…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Grants were awarded to organizations working in the areas of climate change, education, and the arts…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The largest gift in the college’s history includes $40 million for student financial aid and $10 million aimed at re-envisioning career development programs…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

A report from the Building Movement Project found that nonprofits led by people of color were responding to COVID-19 and calls to end structural racism while struggling to secure adequate funding and ensure their long-term sustainability…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Twenty-one fellows working in fields ranging from evolutionary genetics and developmental biology, to environmental health and experimental physics, to jazz composition, documentary filmmaking, poetry, and speculative fiction will each receive unrestricted awards of $625,000 over five years…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

With the aim of transforming the way U.S. histories are told in public spaces, the Monuments Project will focus on three areas: funding new monuments, memorials, and storytelling spaces; contextualizing existing monuments and memorials through installations, research, and education; and relocating existing monuments and memorials…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Grants were awarded to organizations serving residents of Cuyahoga, Lake, and Geauga counties in the areas of economic and workforce development, education, the environment, leadership development, neighborhood revitalization, and youth, health, and social services…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Young Investigator Grants were awarded to a hundred and fifty early-career scientists engaged in groundbreaking neurobiological research on the causes of and treatments and prevention strategies for psychiatric disorders…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Established in September by Oregon Governor Kate Brown to assist communities impacted by a devastating wildfire season, the fund was seeded with contributions totaling $3 million from the Ford Family Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, and Oregon Community Foundation…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Awarded through the endowment’s Thriving Congregations Initiative, the grants will support the work of individual congregations as well as colleges and universities, theological schools, denominational agencies, and other faith-based organizations working to strengthen ministries across the United States…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Based on a survey of leaders and staff at grantmaking institutions, as well as individual donors, donor-advised fund account holders, and wealth advisors, the report from Community Works Consulting found that nearly two-thirds of institutional grantmakers said they planned to redirect some, most, or all of their grant dollars to COVID-19 response efforts…. Philanthropy News Digest…

The grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will establish the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and buttress the scholarship of humanities researchers in the areas of policy reform, social justice, K-12 education, and incarceration…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The CornerSquare Community Capital fund will support community development financial institutions through the purchase of 25 percent loan participations, enabling the CDFIs to increase their lending and expand support for BIPOC- and women-owned small businesses…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The report from the ClimateWorks Foundation estimates that only 2 percent of global philanthropic giving was designated for efforts to address climate change in 2019, including about $1.6 billion from foundations…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>