Alabama

The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham has named Ruffner Page as chairman of its board of directors and appointed William Hereford and Susan Matlock to the board.

California

The California Community Foundation in Los Angeles has announced fellowships totaling $350,000 to visual artists in Los Angeles County. The fellowships are designed to support and strengthen the region's thriving arts scene and help fellowship recipients build successful, sustainable careers. This year, the fellowship changed its applications process to eliminate categories for emerging and mid-career artists and included a simplified, two-round application process.

The Santa Barbara Foundation has announced that eight of the nine grant programs it offered in 2016 will be offered again in 2017. The exception, the Invest in Youth grant program, will go on hiatus for a year to better accommodate the programmatic needs of youth-serving organizations in the community and enable the foundation to gather data and evaluate efforts funded through the program in 2016.

Colorado

The Community Foundation Boulder County has announced that the youth advisory committee for its 15 Forever Fund is seeking proposals that address issues related to inequality of opportunity for Boulder County youth. In particular, the committee is looking for proposals that address barriers to educational success, access to computers and the Internet, affordable and culturally appropriate rehabilitation and mental health services, and programs that develop allies and advocates for youth in the county.

Connecticut

The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has announced grants totaling more than $1.1 million to six nonprofit organizations working to prevent or eliminate homelessness in the region, including "no-freeze" efforts to provide temporary shelter during the winter months. Grant recipients include AIDS Connecticut ($102,000), the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness ($30,000), the Corporation for Supportive Housing ($300,000), ImmaCare ($144,000), My Sisters' Place ($220,000), and the Salvation Army ($326,544).

Florida

The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties in West Palm Beach has appointed Susan P. Brockway, Dennis S. Hudson III, and Jane Mitchell to its board of directors.

Indiana

The Central Indiana Community Foundation has announced that its Women's Fund of Central Indiana has named Kamala Spencer as its new development director.

Louisiana

The Greater New Orleans Fund has announced May 2 as the date of this year's twenty-four-hour GiveNOLA Day. Over the past three years, the event has raised more than $10 million for regional organizations. This year, GNOF hopes to raise $4.5 million for seven hundred organizations. In addition, every participating nonprofit will receive a proportional share of the "Lagniappe Fund," a local pool of incentive dollars raised by the event's sponsors.

Vermont

The Vermont Community Foundation in Middlebury has announced that the J. Warren & Lois McClure Foundation, one of its supporting organizations, has released an updated version of its Pathways to Promising Careers, a guide to well-paying, high-growth careers in the state and the educational requirements needed to pursue them. In partnership with the Vermont Department of Labor, the McClure Foundation identified more than a hundred jobs that, over the next decade, are expected to pay an hourly wage of at least $20. The latest VDOL data was used to highlight fifty-four of the jobs, along with median wages and number of projected job openings. All but two, however, require training and/or education beyond high school. According to VCF, only 60 percent of the state's high school graduates enroll in college within sixteen months of graduation.

Washington

The Seattle Foundation and Seattle mayor Ed Murray have announced a plan to support immigrant and refugee children enrolled in Seattle Public Schools through a range of counseling and legal services, events, and community education forums. The plan includes four elements: the Family Unity Project, a series of community education forums conducted in public schools and other venues to help immigrant students and their families and provide resources for those facing or already in detention; counseling and peer support; a Seattle United for Immigrant and Refugee Families event on Inauguration Day; and the creation of accessible mechanisms, including an online reporting form, for the public to report incidents of bias, hate speech, and violence.