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….
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Foot Locker, LISC launch $3 million initiative to empower BIPOC youth
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 News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsKansas Health Foundation awards $18 million in grants
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/pndnewsLISC, Lowe's awarded $55 million to small businesses across U.S.
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/pndnewsCasey Foundation, partners expand child welfare initiative
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 | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsMiami Dade College, IBM partner to advance diversity in tech
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/pndnewsHamilton College receives $22 million bequest from alumnus
The bequest from Keith Wellin (’50) — the largest gift in the school’s 209-year history — includes $19 million to create an endowed student scholarship fund, with the remainder comprising gifts of art….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsNFWF, food companies launch $5 million sustainable-grazing partnership
As part of the public-private Southern Plains Grassland Program, Sysco, Cargill, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will provide a total of $5 million over five years to accelerate the implementation of sustainable-grazing practices across a million acres in the Southern Great Plains, an area responsible for approximately 30 percent of the beef produced in the United States….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsNonprofit sector regained jobs in March but faces long recovery
XPRIZE announces winners of competition for decarbonizing technology
The two winners of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a $20 million competition aimed at mitigating carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, will receive $7.5 million each….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsNathan Cummings report offers insights into mission-aligned investing
The report examines the challenges of mission-aligned investing and outlines the foundation’s own journey and lessons learned since announcing in 2018 that it would shift to a fully mission-aligned investment strategy….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsMary Baldwin University receives $5 million pledge for nursing program
The gift will support start-up costs for a recently announced hybrid Doctor of Nursing Practice program, as well as the launch a program that connects basic research discoveries to clinical practice….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsCarnegie Corporation of New York president Vartan Gregorian dies at 87
A “citizen of the world,” a distinguished historian and humanities scholar, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Gregorian viewed foundations as stewards of a public trust and stressed the need for philanthropies to be open and transparent….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsFoundation, nonprofit leaders join call to protect voting rights
Published concurrently in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and USA Today, the statement declares that “[f]or American democracy to work for any of us, we must ensure the right to vote for all of us….”
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsBloomberg commits $6 million for mobile COVID-19 vaccinations at HBCUs
The grants will support efforts by Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, and Morehouse School of Medicine to expand mobile unit COVID-19 vaccine operations in Black and medically underserved communities….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsNew York Community Trust awards grants totaling $9.9 million
Grants were awarded to fifty-three organizations working to make progress in the fight against COVID-19 and help the city become more resilient and equitable….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnews$500 million to boost enrollment of undocumented students
Billionaire biotech investor Jack Schuler plans to invest nearly half his net worth over the next ten years in an initiative aimed at increasing enrollment for undocumented and low-income students at the country’s top liberal arts colleges….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsJohns Hopkins receives $16 million for scholars fund, eye institute
Colorado College announces $33.5 million estate gift
The largest gift from an individual in the college’s history will support the future needs of the college and provide funding for the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College….
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