Awarded through the foundation’s Crazy 8 Initiative, the grants will support four projects involving fifteen different research institutions….

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The Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States has pledged to raise $100 million to benefit the descendants of enslaved people it once owned and to promote racial reconciliation initiatives across the United States….

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The Effective Fundraising Project’s 2020 Fourth Quarter Report found that year-over-year growth in giving was driven by a 7.3 percent increase in the number of those making a gift, with an 18.5 percent jump in new donors and a 13.7 percent increase in recaptured donors….

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The grant from Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey will support New York University’s Cash Transfer Lab, which will use the funds to study the impact of cash-transfer policies such as a universal basic income on American families, communities, and the economy….

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The USC Titus Center for Medication Safety and Population Health will work to reduce hospitalizations and emergency room visits resulting from dangerous drug interactions or wrong dosages….

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The gift from Richard and Lynne Pasculano will support a new adult learning center focused on technology training, career counseling, and ESOL classes that will be located in NYPL’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, the newly renovated central circulating branch on Fifth Avenue and Fortieth Street….

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The estate gift in support of the College of Veterinary Medicine will establish the Dr. Glenn R. and Nancy A. Linnerson Imaging Center, which will advance comparative and translational medicine research….

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Funded by the Shanahan Family Foundation and the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the program will enroll up to three early-career data scientists per year in three-year fellowships, including PhD researchers with a background in statistics, computer science, physics, engineering, mathematics, or similar fields and provide mentors from the institute and the University of Washington….

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The gift from Arnold and Ellen Zetcher will establish and endow a program open to students with financial need entering any of the university’s four undergraduate schools….

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The gift will establish the George L. and Tanya S. Ruff Endowed Scholarship and support the Institute of Global Homelessness, which will be renamed for the couple….

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The award, which recognizes a democratically elected African head of state who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, honors the former president of Niger, who served from 2011 to 2020, a decade in which the country saw improvements in all four sub-categories of human development of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance….

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The largest gift ever to Mohawk Valley Health System will support services for a new regional medical center in Utica, New York — a 703,000-square-foot, ten-story facility on a twenty-five-acre campus scheduled to be completed in 2023….

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Established with a gift from an alumnus who wishes to remain anonymous, the Student Emergency Fund will include funding to assist students immediately and resources for an endowment to provide funding in perpetuity….

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The gift from Mary and Rich Templeton includes $2.5 million to endow four doctoral Fellowships and another $2.5 million to endow ten undergraduate scholarships….

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The gift includes $10 million toward construction of a new Neurological Institute building and $5.5 million in support of research to investigate the link between stress and epileptic seizures….

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A report from Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy found that giving by corporations and corporate foundations, including in-kind gifts, accounted for about 44 percent of total dollars awarded, followed by high-net-worth individuals (27 percent) and independent foundations (22 percent)….

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The gift will create an unrestricted endowment to help the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management navigate challenges that have resulted from the coronavirus pandemic….

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Awarded through Amazon Future Engineer, the online retailer’s computer science education program, the funding will support initiatives designed to increase students’ awareness of academic and career pathways in computer science and prepare them for success in college-level CS courses and beyond, with a focus on students from underrepresented groups….

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The gift from David M. Rubenstein, the largest in the 240-year history of the institution, will support efforts to strengthen and advance democracy and justice in the United States….

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The gift from alumni Lois (’85) and Darryl Goss (’83) will establish the Austin and Arutha Goss Presidential Chair in African American and African Studies, which is named for Darryl Goss’s parents, whom the couple credit with teaching them the value of education and lifelong learning….

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