Philanthropy news
Philanthropy News Digest publishes daily abstracts of original articles, press releases, and grantmaker communications about grants, initiatives, reports, and personnel changes.
National Gallery, VMFA Receive Artworks From Mellon Estate
May 28, 2014The works by Vincent van Gogh, Winslow Homer, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, and others are part of a bequest by art collector and philanthropist Paul Mellon, who died in 1999....
Shubert Foundation Awards $22.5 Million to Performing Arts Groups
May 28, 2014General operating support grants ranging from $10,000 to $300,000 were awarded to urban and rural arts organizations across the country....
Imperial College London Receives $67 Million for BioMed Center
May 28, 2014The Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Hub will work to develop affordable technologies that address a range of medical conditions....
$6 Million Awarded to Address Neglected Tropical Diseases
May 27, 2014The funds will support the FIRST (Fighting Infections through Research, Science, and Technology) project, with a focus on Chagas disease, dengue, and onchocerciasis....
University Museum of Contemporary Art Receives Original Warhol Prints
May 27, 2014The prints from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts were created between the late 1970s and mid-1980s....
UT Dallas Receives $17 Million for Art History Institute
May 27, 2014The gift will be used to fund the director's position at the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History and endow research fellowships and professorships....
PepsiCo Foundation Awards $5 Million to Diplomas Now Collaborative
May 27, 2014The grant will help the program more than double the number of students it serves and support its operations through the 2016-17 school year....
Glenn Foundation Awards $3 Million to Salk Aging Research Center
May 26, 2014The gift will continue support for the Glenn Center for Aging Research, which studies the biology of aging, age-related diseases, and the difference between normal and pathological aging....
University of Pittsburgh Receives $5 Million for Institute of Politics
May 26, 2014The gift will help fund efforts to promote citizen engagement, innovative approaches to public policy issues, and social responsibility....
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Awards $5 Million for Fort Worth Blue Zones
May 26, 2014The grant to Healthways will support efforts to cut healthcare costs, reduce obesity and smoking rates, and improve quality of life for Fort Worth residents....
Walmart Foundation Pledges $20 Million for Veterans Programs
May 26, 2014The foundation will spend an additional $20 million to assist veterans with job training, transition support, and education resources....
Duke University Divinity School Receives $1.5 Million Gift
May 25, 2014The gift will endow the Jack and Barbara Bovender Professor of Anglican Episcopal Studies and Ministry....
Ho Family Foundation Buddhist Studies Fellowships Announced
May 25, 2014Through its program in Buddhist Studies, the foundation awarded twenty-three fellowships to scholars in six countries....
University of Kansas Medical Center Receives $25 Million Gift
May 25, 2014The gift will enable KU to advance its plans to construct a $75 million health education building....
People in the News (5/25/14): Appointments and Promotions
May 25, 2014The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector....
Brooklyn Museum Receives $5 Million From Leon Levy Foundation
May 24, 2014The largest gift the museum has received from a foundation in more than a decade will create an endowment for the position of director....
Karabots Foundation Awards $7.5 Million to Healthcare Network
May 24, 2014The funds will help finance the ongoing renovation of Einstein Healthcare Network's medical office building in Norristown, Pennsylvania....
Community Foundation Update (5/24/14)
May 24, 2014News and staff announcements from community foundations around the country....
Teagle Foundation Awards $2.1 Million in Grants
May 24, 2014The majority of grants were awarded through two new education initiatives designed to support and strengthen hybrid learning efforts....
$7.75 Million HHMI Partnership to Scale Minority STEM Program
May 23, 2014The collaboration will work to replicate the success of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Meyerhoff Scholars Program at two other universities....
Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions
May 23, 2014The grants to the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern, and the University of Chicago will help advance art history studies....
South Africa's College Success Rates 'Marginally Better', Study Finds
May 23, 2014Funded by the Kresge Foundation, the report found that college access and success rates are marginally better than they were under apartheid....
Majority of Undocumented Millennials Say More Help Is Needed
May 23, 2014While young undocumented immigrants have benefited from the DACA program, nearly three-quarters say the program "is not enough"....
Johns Hopkins Receives $15 Million for Bladder Cancer Institute
May 22, 2014The gift from Erwin L. Greenberg and his wife, Stephanie Cooper Greenberg, will help establish an international hub for researchers....
President's Committee on the Arts, Humanities Expands Program
May 22, 2014Expansion of the Turnaround Arts initiative will be funded through a public-private partnership that includes the Ford Foundation and others....