Part of a $150 million commitment to advance diversity, inclusion, and health equity announced by the company in August, the grants were awarded in support of efforts to boost diversity among clinical researchers, improve access to high-quality care, and increase disease awareness and education in racially diverse and medically underserved communities…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto…

The gift will create the Marriott-Sorenson Center for Hospitality Leadership in honor of Marriott International president and CEO Arne Sorenson, who passed away earlier this month after battling pancreatic cancer…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The five-year commitment includes support for efforts to advance economic mobility, educational opportunity, health and well-being, and diversity and inclusion…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The gift from the Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation will support a new medical education consortium focused on increasing the number of third- and fourth-year medical school students who come to the Pee Dee region to complete their education…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The new signatories include Bongjin Kim and Bomi Sul, Ben and Divya Silbermann, and Byron and Tina Trott…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The gift will establish the Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development and support global health and development research and initiatives…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Launched in 2016, the strategy addresses the top four priorities of North Flint residents — youth, public safety, economic opportunity, and neighborhoods…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

An update to a 2004 report, the research review commissioned by the Wallace Foundation draws on more than two hundred studies over twenty years and argues that school leaders are even more important to student success than previously believed and that investments in successful strategies to better prepare and support them often lead to large…

A hundred and twenty-eight early-career scientists and scholars in eight disciplines — chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, earth systems science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics — will each receive a grant of $75,000 over two years…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Twenty-one early-career scientists will receive up to $1.4 million over eight years to pursue research into some of the greatest challenges in the life sciences…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The center, to be renamed the Shevet Glaubach Center for Career Strategy and Professional Development, offers programs in career development as well as mentorship, internships, and job search assistance…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Based on dozens of interviews, the report from the Open Society Foundations found that civil society leaders in Yemen agree that the transitional justice process must be focused on the concerns and needs of victims and include mechanisms for truth telling, redress, and mental health support…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

To drive reform, participating sites incorporate data from, and work with, diverse groups of community members, individuals who work in the justice system, and people with lived experience of the system…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

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

Slated to be completed by 2023, the project includes the renovation of the west side of Reser Stadium and construction of university facilities, including an interactive welcome center, new health center facilities, healthcare facilities for OSU faculty and staff, and additional meeting space…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The commitment will support a three-pronged approach to the issue: ensuring that people have access to food today, tackling the issues that drive hunger so people can feed themselves tomorrow, and working to create a new economic normal in which all Americans are food secure…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The foundation has pledged more than $2 billion in philanthropic support over the next five years to achieve goals across three longstanding programmatic areas…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Grants will support efforts to expand access to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria prevention services for vulnerable populations in Mozambique…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The grants will support “bubble” residencies designed to enable dancers and choreographers — the arts discipline hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic — to safely pursue their work in quarantine…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The foundation will partner with UNCF to expand the LaunchPad entrepreneurship program from thirty to seventy-five campuses over the next five years, with a focus on colleges and universities that have a majority-diverse student body or are serving underresourced communities…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>