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 >>

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/pndnewsGoto full post >>

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…

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/pndnewsGoto full post >>

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/pndnewsGoto full post >>

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…

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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/pndnewsGoto full post >>

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/pndnewsGoto full post >>

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/pndnewsGoto full post >>

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/pndnewsGoto full post >>

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/pndnewsGoto full post >>