Arizona

The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona in Tucson has announced a grant of $10,000 from its COVID-19 Response Fund in support of the Border Community Alliance. Since March 2020, the foundation has awarded nearly $3.7 million in grants from the fund.

California

In recognition of Give 8/28 Day, which commemorates notable events in U.S. history that especially affected African Americans — the murder of Emmett Till (1955), the delivery of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech (1963), Hurricane Katrina (2005), and Barack Obama's nomination as the Democratic candidate for president (2008) — the San Diego Foundation's Young, Black & Giving Back Institute is promoting financial giving for nonprofits focused on the Black community. According to the foundation, Give 8/28 Day encourages giving to grassroots, Black-led, and Black-benefitting nonprofit organizations and leveraging online fundraising tools to engage philanthropists around causes they're passionate about.

The Inland Empire Community Foundation has announced that its Women's Giving Fund has awarded grants totaling $20,000 to local organizations working to assist women and children. Recipients include the Society for Extraordinary Women, Time for Change, and Corona Life Services. Since its inception in 2018, the Women's Giving Fund has awarded $60,000 in grants to nonprofit groups that benefit women and families in the Inland Empire.

Louisiana

The Greater New Orleans Foundation has announced that after nearly eight years leading its discretionary grantmaking and programmatic work, vice president of programs Carmen James Randolph is leaving to pursue a new venture. The foundation's programmatic work will continue under the leadership of Kellie Chavez Greene, who will serve as interim vice president of programs. Chavez Greene is the director of Nonprofit Leadership and Effectiveness, where she leads initiatives and implements programs that strengthen the region's nonprofits to better deliver programs that serve the community.

Ohio

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation has announced Learning Links grants totaling $165,743 to ninety-nine schools this year. Funded by GCF donors and the Charles H. Dater Foundation, grants will support creative projects envisioned by K-12 educators across the region and help students recover from the impact of remote learning. Each organization was awarded a grant of up to $1,250, which will help support 143 programs, including a variety of projects focused on promoting diversity and engaging students and parents.

Oklahoma

The Oklahoma City Community Foundation has announced it will provide four hundred new trees and seventy thousand daffodil bulbs to help the community recover from the harsh winter weather of 2020-21. Over the past decade, the foundation has worked with the City of Oklahoma City, the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments, and Oklahoma Forestry Services to document the environmental, aesthetic, and functional benefits trees provide as well as help improve the community's parks system. Last winter, much of the Oklahoma City metro tree canopy was damaged or destroyed.

Rhode Island

The Rhode Island Foundation has announced that nonprofits on the front lines of responding to the COVID-19 crisis have been awarded another $380,000 in grants in the final phases of the RI Gives Vax Challenge. The funding was triggered as a result of the more than twenty-five thousand Rhode Islanders who got vaccinated since the program was launched in July. According to the foundation, more than 81 percent of adult Rhode Islanders are now at least partially vaccinated.

Washington

The Seattle Foundation has announced its latest round of Creative Equity Fund grant recipients. Launched in 2018, the funder collaborative originally was envisioned as a program to assist BIPOC-led and serving organizations broadly, but based on internal assessments from the funders, direct feedback from the previous cohort of grantees, and the chronic underinvestment in Black and Indigenous-led nonprofits from the philanthropic sector, this round of funding is focused entirely on supporting Black and Indigenous-led organizations in King County. A total of $720,000 will be awarded to fourteen organizations, including the Black Cinema Collective, Duwamish Tribal Services, Red Eagle Soaring, and the Pacific Islander Community Association of Washington.