California

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation has announced the election of Karen Baker, a recognized leader, strategist, and community problem solver, to its board of directors. She has served on the cabinets of three California governors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, and Gavin Newsom.

Colorado

The Denver Foundation and Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods have announced the creation of endowments totaling $1 million that will support the long-term financial sustainability of the city's oldest and largest neighborhood advocacy organization. The CHUN endowments were established with proceeds from the sale of the Tears-McFarlane Mansion, which CHUN has owned since 2005. Through a joint venture partnership with City Street Investors, CHUN maintains a 50 percent equity stake in the 122-year-old property, which includes a historic mansion, annex building, and garden. By 2023, the fully renovated property and grounds will include a cafe, enhanced community meeting space, and other amenities that will serve the neighborhood and provide new sources of revenue for CHUN and its partners. The endowments, which include an agency-advised fund and operating reserves, will be invested in the Denver Foundation's Long-Term Balanced Pool and Sustainable and Responsible Investing Pool.

Connecticut

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has announced its first BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color) Cohort for Nonprofit Leadership program. The career development program was conceived earlier this year as part of the foundation's Stepping Forward commitment to help the Greater New Haven community recover from the impact of COVID-19 and advance racial equity across the region. In compensation for the absence of cohort participants from their regular work schedules, the foundation will provide their organizations with general operating support grants. Participants also will receive undergraduate or graduate credit and a $1,000 scholarship toward future studies at the University of Connecticut. The cohort includes Jahnice Cajigas, Antonio L. Coles, II, Frankie Douglass, Chanelle Goldson, Christian Aviles, Victoria Massey, Ala Ochumare, Landon Osborn, Nicole Sanclemente, and Kimani Sioux Williams.

Indiana

The Central Indiana Community Foundation has announced that its Central Indiana Senior Fund awarded grants totaling $979,762 to thirty-one senior-serving nonprofits. Recipients include Actors Ink, the Concord Neighborhood Center, Flanner House of Indianapolis, and Trusted Mentors.

Kentucky

The Community Foundation of Louisville has announced that its Give for Good Louisville campaign, a twenty-four-hour online campaign that raised $7.7 million for more than five hundred nonprofits in 2020, will take place on September 17. Launched in 2014, the campaign has raised a total of $33.6 million to date in direct support for organizations that serve eight surrounding counties.

Maine

More than a hundred and fifty community members ran or walked in the name of Somerset County Sheriff's Department Corporal Eugene Cole, who was killed in April 2018 after attempting to make an arrest, News Center Maine reports. Proceeds from the 2021 Corporal Cole Memorial 5k & Half Marathon support a scholarship that Cole's family started at the Maine Community Foundation to assist a deserving student pursuing a career in law enforcement or public safety.

Ohio

The Cleveland Foundation has announced that its Equity in the Arts Fund, previously known as the Minority Arts and Education Fund, has awarded grants totaling $185,000 to eighteen organizations this year. Recipients include the Buck Out Foundation, Foluke Cultural Arts Center, Karamu House, and Twelve Literary Arts. In addition, the fund has opened its application process for the 2022 round of grants; the deadline to apply is November 1.

Pennsylvania

The Pittsburgh Foundation has announced that three artists will receive awards of $18,000 each from the Eben Demarest Fund, which supports the work of independent creative artists and archeologists from across the United States. The foundation, which has overseen the awards since 2010, was unable to select an awardee last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The funds were carried forward, making it possible to support three artists this cycle. The recipients are Pittsburgh-based visual artist Gavin Benjamin, Evanston, Illinois-based figurative realist painter Daniela Kovačić, and Brooklyn-based sculptor Kennedy Yanko.

Rhode Island

The Rhode Island Foundation has announced the inaugural class of its Equity Leadership Initiative, which will cultivate, mentor, and seek access and opportunity for individuals from across sectors who identify as Asian, Black, Hispanic or Latinx, Indigenous, or multiracial to help build a pipeline of leaders in established positions of influence across the state. Over the next twelve months, the thirty-one selectees, nearly three-quarters of whom are women, will participate in half-day group meetings, receive regular one-to-one coaching sessions, and develop a personal leadership vision and goals.