Philanthropy news
Philanthropy News Digest publishes daily abstracts of original articles, press releases, and grantmaker communications about grants, initiatives, reports, and personnel changes.
Saint Luke's Foundation Awards $4.2 Million to Cleveland Nonprofits
December 30, 2015The grants will fund nonprofits working to advance the foundation's priorities of healthy people, strong neighborhoods, and resilient families....
Bill Would Require New Jersey Hospitals to Pay Municipalities
December 30, 2015The bill would require nonprofit hospitals that run for-profit businesses to make "community service contributions" of $2.50 per bed, per day....
Blandin Foundation Awards $4 Million in Grants
December 29, 2015The December grants will support a range of initiatives and organizations in Grand Rapids and Itasca County....
George Kaiser Foundation Awards $6.8 Million to Tulsa Nonprofits
December 29, 2015The grants include $4.2 million to human services agencies, $1.4 million for educational programs, and $1.2 million to health organizations....
Cleveland Foundation Awards $12.7 Million in Grants
December 29, 2015Focused on educational and development programs for young people and adults, the grants bring the foundation's total grantmaking in 2015 to $93.7 million....
Alcoa Heirs Establish $15 Million Fund at Pittsburgh Foundation
December 29, 2015The gift from Richard M. Hunt and his wife, Priscilla, is the largest one-time contribution from living donors in the foundation's history....
Web Foundation Receives $2 Million From Omidyar Network
December 28, 2015The investment will enable the World Wide Web Foundation to expand its Open Data program....
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards $4.5 Million to Chatham House
December 28, 2015The funds will support a renovation and expansion project at the renowned London-based think tank....
Alums Pledge $12.1 Million for Purdue Football Complex
December 28, 2015Five alumni of the university's football team and their families will help fund construction of a state-of-the-art performance complex....
Lilly Endowment Awards $42 Million for Regional Development in Indiana
December 28, 2015The grants will support regional development initiatives in eleven counties, with a focus on research and development, workforce, and education....
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Receives $4 Million for Vision Center
December 27, 2015The hospital received two gifts totaling $4 million to establish an endowed chair in retinoblastoma, a rare childhood cancer....
Foundation Giving in Florida Totaled $1.5 Billion in 2013
December 27, 2015According to a new report from the Florida Philanthropic Network, grantmaking by foundations in the state rose 15 percent....
Gates Foundation Awards $2.1 Million to Women's Philanthropy Institute
December 27, 2015The grant to the Women's Philanthropy Institute will fund research on factors that influence men and women to give more and more intentionally....
People in the News (12/27/15): Appointments and Promotions
December 27, 2015The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector....
St. David’s Foundation Awards $13 Million to Austin-Area Nonprofits
December 26, 2015Awarded through the foundation's Healthy Futures, Healthy Aging, and Healthy Living programs, the grants will support human services....
Alwaleed Philanthropies Invests EGP 1.5 Billion in Egyptian Housing
December 26, 2015The investment includes a cash grant of EGP 850 million and ten thousand acres of land in the country's Toshka region....
Mott Foundation Gift Enables Transfer of Hotel Complex to UM-Flint
December 26, 2015The Mott Foundation will waive the balance on repayable grants used to fund the purchase and renovation of the former hotel complex....
Community Foundation Update (12/26/15)
December 26, 2015News and staff announcements from community foundations around the country....
VCU Receives $16 Million for Medical Research
December 25, 2015The gift from C. Kenneth Wright will endow six distinguished research chairs and a scholars program at VCU's medical research center....
More Cities Establishing Inclusive LGBT Protections, Index Finds
December 25, 2015The 2015 Municipal Equality Index found that the laws, policies, benefits, and services of forty-seven cities offer fully inclusive protections....
ACLU Receives $15 Million for Criminal Justice Reform Center
December 25, 2015The Trone Center for Criminal Justice Reform will work to promote sentencing reform and initiatives aimed at rehabilitating and employing ex-convicts....
Hedge Fund Billionaire to Rate Companies for 'Justness'
December 25, 2015Robin Hood Foundation founder Paul Tudor Jones is calling on firms to make social responsibility as much a priority as profits and share price....
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Receives $2 Million
December 24, 2015The grant will fund staffing, partnerships, community outreach, and pop-up exhibitions and digital activities....
California Wellness Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $10.3 Million
December 24, 2015Awarded through the foundation's Advancing Wellness program, the grants support efforts to advance health equity in the state....
Gilbert Donates $10.5 Million to Toys for Tots
December 24, 2015The country music star's gift will enable Toys for Tots to distribute toys and books to children and families in need over the holiday season....
