The public-private partnership is designed to provide a "transition fund" for the Brazilian government's Amazon Region Protected Areas program....

The commitment includes $50 million for Invest Detroit and Capital Impact Partners to bankroll development projects....

The gift from developer Stephen Ross will establish an initiative designed to integrate expertise and experience in urban planning....

The gift from the Kravis Foundation will establish a new cancer center focused on speeding the translation of novel molecular discoveries into clinical practice....

A survey of the world's largest companies found that 64 percent of respondents increased their corporate giving in 2013 from 2010 levels....

A Wilder Research study of Minnesota's permanent and transitional supportive housing programs found that their beneficiaries were well served....

The grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will enable researchers to advance cancer vaccines into clinical trials....

The gift will provide funds to sustain and enhance medical research at the newly renamed Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute....

The two grantmakers are supporting the transgenic technology of British biopharmaceutical company Kymab with Series B investments of $20 million each....

Students who leave high school without graduating do so primarily because they are overwhelmed by life events often associated with poverty....

The $46 million Weston Brain Institute will support high-risk, high-reward neuroscience research, with the goal of fast-tracking new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS....

The Urban Institute report found that 47 percent of U.S. public charities saw revenue from federal contracts decline in 2012....

The gift from Pauline Foster will be matched on a one-to-one basis....

The Corcoran's college and museum will be absorbed into George Washington University and the National Gallery of Art....

Grants of up to $100,000 were awarded to twenty-two nonprofits working to advance healthy eating, active living, and tobacco prevention initiatives....

The gift to the College of Communication at Boston University will endow the Sumner M. Redstone Professorship in Narrative Studies....

The gift from local philanthropists John and Doris Norton will help establish a world-class lung, heart, and esophageal center....

The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector....

The grant to the Elephant Crisis Fund was part of $2 million raised for anti-poaching, anti-trafficking, and ivory-demand reduction programs....

The Redesigning Development Finance Initiative aims to expand the pool of capital available for economic development....

The low-interest loan will support an effort to renovate and restore twenty-four row-house buildings in the Weinland Park neighborhood....

News and staff announcements from community foundations around the country....

The commitment is part of the firm's 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, which promotes entrepreneurship in the United States....

The gift from entrepreneur Robert A. Foisie (’56) will support undergraduate student scholarships....

The report from the National Center on Time & Learning highlights what schools are doing to give teachers more time for development....