Arizona

The Arizona Community Foundation has announced the appointment of Lisa Urias as its chief program and community engagement officer, effective April 1. She succeeds Elisa de la Vara, who is retiring. Urias most recently served as managing partner of CoNecs North America and leads Urias Communications, a multicultural marketing and communications agency.

The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona in Tucson has announced the launch of TeamUp through its Center for Healthy Nonprofits. The brainchild of the Connie Hillman Family Foundation, TeamUp is aimed at helping nonprofits collaborate with consultants and will underwrite twenty hours of consulting and coaching for approved projects. According to the center, TeamUp expects to match about seventy-five projects with consultants in 2021 and 2022.

California

The San Francisco Foundation has announced the appointment of Galen Maness as its chief operating officer. Maness, who joined the foundation in 2015, most recently served as its senior director of human resources and administration. In addition, the foundation has appointed Daryel Dunston as its senior director of Place Pathway. Most recently, Dunston served as the City of Oakland's first homelessness administrator.

The San Diego Foundation has announced a gift of $200,000 in support of the San Diego Community College District's tuition-free San Diego Promise, a program that has enabled thousands of students who may otherwise be unable to afford college to pursue a degree. The gift includes a $100,000 matching gift, which will be made once SDCCD receives $100,000 from other donors.

Colorado

Seven Colorado foundations including the Community First Foundation and the Denver Foundation have announced the launch of a partnership focused on funding on-the-ground efforts to connect traditionally marginalized communities with access to COVID-19 vaccines and information. Together We Protect – Colorado's COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Fund, is focused specifically on supporting organizations working in communities highly impacted by COVID-19 to ensure that people of color and those who face systemic barriers have the best possible information about available vaccines and can access the vaccine through opportunities that consider barriers such as technology, language, transportation, and lack of health insurance. To that end, Together We Protect will provide grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 in support of community-based organizations working in partnership with state-contracted vaccine providers.

Nevada

The Community Foundation of Western Nevada has announced that its Community Housing Land Trust has closed on its first home. The trust was created by the foundation to provide homes that are affordable to people earning less than the area median income in Reno: $79,600 for a family of four. The trust continues to own the land and leases it to the homeowner for a modest sum, a model that keeps the house affordable. Buyers' income levels must fit into a specific window to purchase a home through the Community Housing Land Trust. To qualify, they must earn less than 80 percent of the area median income, while earning enough that their housing expenses total no more than 35 percent of their monthly income.

New York

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has awarded more than $2.4 million to the Brooklyn Community Foundation in support of substance abuse treatment programs across Brooklyn. The funds are derived from charitable assets that remained after the OAG dissolved Canarsie A.W.A.R.E., Inc. for its participation in a scheme that exploited some of New York's most vulnerable residents and defrauded Medicaid. Under the state's Not-for Profit Corporation Law, assets remaining after the dissolution of a nonprofit organization must be distributed to another nonprofit engaged in similar activities to those of the dissolving organization.

North Carolina

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation, the main discretionary grantmaking arm of the Foundation for the Carolinas, has awarded grants totaling $480,000 to thirty-three local nonprofits through its Family Stability and Social Capital grant programs. Grant recipients include the Renaissance West Community Initiative, Veterans Bridge Home, the Refugee Support Services of the Carolinas, and GardHouse.

Oregon

Oregon Community Foundation has announced three grants totaling $11.4 million in support of Project Turnkey in support of properties in Corvallis, Eugene, and Lincoln City. The project is aimed at providing safe shelter options during the pandemic and permanent supported housing to people experiencing chronic homelessness. The grant recipients are Corvallis Housing First, Lane County Human Services, and Northwest Coastal Housing.

Washington

The Seattle Foundation has announced it is partnering with King County Elections for a fifth year on the Voter Education Fund. The partners have collectively committed $950,000 in grants over the next two years in support of organizations working to increase voter participation in historically excluded communities. Part of the foundation's Vibrant Democracy Initiative program, the fund will award multi-year grants to lead voter registration and education efforts for the 2021 and 2022 election cycles. Organizations are eligible to apply for a maximum of $40,000 over two years for catalyst-level funding for groups experienced in civic engagement doing ongoing voter registration and education or $15,000 over two years for capacity funding to produce a series of events. The deadline to apply is April 2, 2021.

Wisconsin

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has appointed Kenyatta Sinclair as its first chief diversity and inclusion officer. A Milwaukee native with fifteen years of experience in the nonprofit and racial equity and inclusion spaces, Sinclair has served in leadership roles at SaintA, a human services agency, first as director of leadership development and most recently as vice president, equity and human capital, and previously held positions in program development and served as director of learning and professional development for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee.