California

The San Diego Foundation has announced a $1 million investment in support of Bridgedeck Partners LLC, which is working to create affordable housing on a property in the Normal Heights neighborhood. In addition, the Alliance Healthcare Foundation and Mission Driven Finance, an impact investment firm, have invested $500,000 each in the project. The $65 million development will provide rental housing for very low- and low-income individuals and families earning between 50 percent and 60 percent of area median income.

The Santa Barbara Foundation has announced that the COVID-19 Joint Response Effort is closing its response fund. Established in March 2020 by the Santa Barbara and Hutton Parker foundations and United Way of Santa Barbara County, the fund has awarded $5.8 million to individuals, families, and nonprofits. Since March 2020, thirty-six members of the grantmaking collaborative have provided more than $38 million either through the COVID-19 Joint Response Fund or directly to local nonprofits.

Connecticut

The Connecticut Community Foundation has announced scholarships totaling more than $976,000 in support of nearly four hundred students attending two- and four-year schools across the country. Since 1999, the foundation has awarded more than sixty-seven hundred scholarships totaling more than $13 million.

Maine

Belfast Flying Shoes, a nonprofit focused on participatory music and dance, has received a $5,000 community-building grant from the Waldo County Fund of the Maine Community Foundation in support of its 2021 concert series for older adults, the Penobscot Bay Pilot reports. Sing Along and Tap Your Toes provides in-person musical experiences for older adults in assisted living and congregate care, including those with dementia. Additional funding for the program comes from BFS contributors and from the foundation's Holt Family Fund.

Massachusetts

The Cambridge Community Foundation has announced that after identifying ten winning ideas in the first two cycles of its Imagined in Cambridge Social Innovation Award program, which funds innovative solutions to large social problems, it has established the Imagined in Cambridge Fund to award microgrants to previous award applicants. To date, the fund has awarded $14,000 in support of twenty-eight social innovators, twenty of which identify as BIPOC-led. Recipients include Asian Women for Health, ClearVision, MatriArts, and the People's Classroom.

Minnesota

The Minneapolis Foundation has announced that its West Bank Community Fund awarded grants totaling $32,700 in support of seven organizations that provide services to residents of the city's West Bank neighborhood. The grants will support a variety of projects that recognize the neighborhood's diverse cultures, improve social connections across cultures and generations, and encourage residents to engage in community and policy issues that are important to them. Recipients include the Mixed Blood Theatre, the Korean Service Center, Pillsbury United Communities, and Sakan Community Resource.

North Carolina

The Foundation for the Carolinas has announced that its York County Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $28,770 in support of thirteen organizations working to address needs in the areas of health care, food insecurity, and housing as the county continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Recipients include the Bethel Men's Shelter, Community Café, the Fort Mill Care Center, and Hope, Inc.

Ohio

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation has appointed Felicity Tao as its new senior director. Prior to joining GCF, she served as the senior marketing communications manager at Cincinnati Bell for nine years before transitioning to senior brand strategist in 2019.

Wisconsin

The Oshkosh Area Community Foundation has announced that the Neenah Joint School District awarded a total of $54,650 in scholarships to fifty Neenah High School seniors. The Oshkosh Area Community Foundation manages more than fifty funds for the Neenah Joint School District, including scholarship, designated, and special project funds.