Arizona

The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona in Tucson has named Ron Pulliam, founder of Borderlands Restoration Network (BRN), as the 2023 recipient of the Buddy Amos Founders Award. Established in 2015 in honor of George H. “Buddy” Amos, Jr., a CFSA founder, the award recognizes nonprofit founders who have demonstrated inspirational leadership in community service, philanthropy, mentoring, collaboration, or systems change that reaches beyond their organization. BRN includes an 1,800-acre borderlands wildlife preserve that is open to the public, a large-scale nursery that provides native plants for restoration efforts, and an innovative summer program that employs youth in multiple communities to learn restoration and leadership skills while completing restoration projects on public and private lands.

California

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation has announced that it awarded grants and scholarships totaling $24 million in 2022. More than 3,300 grants were awarded to nonprofits serving a range of sectors—including health, human services, education, and arts and culture—within El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo counties. Since its inception in 1983, the foundation has awarded more than $225 million.

Connecticut

The Connecticut Community Foundation has announced grants totaling $462,573 to more than 50 nonprofit organizations serving residents of greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills. Grants include $125,603 to 15 organizations working to build equitable opportunities for local residents, $128,836 to 12 organizations working to improve outcomes in health and environmental justice, $100,000 to 10 organizations working to improve quality of life for older people, $57,450 to six organizations that aim to build capacity, and $38,585 to six organizations through the Southbury Community Trust Fund.

Massachusetts

The Boston Foundation has announced more than $2.1 million in the first quarterly grants of the 2023 fiscal year, as the foundation continues to develop and implement Our New Pathway, the new strategic framework announced in 2022. The 15 recipient organizations include Zero to Three, Dunamis, the Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital, for its Chelsea HealthCare Center.

Michigan

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan has announced that it awarded nearly $103 million in grants during 2022, including $22 million in the final quarter of the year. Recipients include Non-Profit Enterprise at Work, Connect Detroit, Venture for America, and the Huron River Watershed Council. In addition, the foundation announced the election of Paul Trulik to its board of trustees. Trulik founded and developed Apparatus Solutions, which provides accounting, finance, and talent development services to nonprofits, and sold it in 2022 to Quatrro Business Services. He also has played key roles in regional civic organizations including Business Leaders for Michigan, the Detroit Region Aerotropolis Development Corporation, and several nonprofits.

North Carolina

The Foundation For The Carolinas has announced grants totaling $5.9 million to 178 diverse-owned small businesses and select nonprofit organizations through its Beyond Open initiative. Beyond Open grants range from $5,000 to more than $250,000 and help build economic mobility in the community by enabling small businesses owned by minority, women, veteran, and LGBTQ entrepreneurs to acquire capital assets such as equipment, technology, real estate, and inventory. Priority was given to businesses located in or near one of the six “Corridors of Opportunity” as defined by the City of Charlotte. In the first of three rounds of Beyond Open grantmaking, 90 percent of grantees identify as a person of color, 60 percent identify as women, 13 percent identify as LGBTQ, and 8 percent identify as veterans.

Ohio

The Isabelle Ridgway Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Columbus Foundation, has announced five grants totaling $160,000 in support organizations serving aging African Americans in the community. Recipients include At Home by High, Catholic Social Services, Central Community House of Central Ohio, and Mount Carmel College of Nursing.

Washington

The Seattle Foundation has announced the additions of Diana White and Joseph Boateng to its board of trustees. White is a member of the Blue Heron Canoe Family, an intertribal community that comes together yearly for the Tribal Canoe Journey. Boateng is the chief investment officer at Casey Family Programs and manages its $2.6 billion endowment.