Alabama

The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham has announced eleven grants awarded through its Jefferson County Public Health Advised Fund, which was established after the Drummond Co. paid $387,500 to the county board of health for violations of the Federal Clean Air Act at the ABC Coke facility in Tarrant. The funds established the ABC Coke Fund to benefit the public health of the City of Tarrant, the North Birmingham community, and Birmingham's Inglenook neighborhood. Recipients include the Literacy Council of Central Alabama, Sight Savers America, Freshwater Land Trust, and Meals on Wheels of Central Alabama.

Arizona

The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona in Tucson has announced that its LGBTQ+ Alliance Fund will receive a gift of $150,000 to establish the Sylvia Stan Mulka Endowment Fund. The largest such gift in the Alliance Fund's twenty-two-year history boosts its total endowed funding to more than $500,000.

California

The Escondido Community Foundation, an affiliate of the San Diego Foundation, has awarded grants totaling $228,000 in support of nine organizations working to improve social and emotional well-being in the area. Recipients include the Alabaster Jar Project, Outside the Lens, North County Lifeline, and the Tariq Khamisa Foundation.

Nebraska

The Omaha Foundation has announced a grant from its Community Resilience Fund in support of the Office of Latino/Latino American Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Established in April, the fund is dedicated to supporting Omaha-area organizations serving communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Since the spring, the fund has awarded nearly $362,000 to twenty-five nonprofits.

New Mexico

The Santa Fe Community Foundation has announced the appointment of ten new members to its board of directors: Hispanics in Philanthropy president and CEO Ana Marie Argilagos, International Folk Art Alliance CEO Stuart Ashman; former museum leader Letitia Chambers; former nonprofit executive Susan M. Coliton, who served as interim CEO of the Santa Fe Foundation until June 2021; former corporate executive Bud Hamilton; executive consultant Leslie Nathanson Juris; former World Bank executive and nonprofit director Helena Ribe; former executive director of the Con Alma Health Foundation Dolores E. Roybal; community volunteer Nancy Steedman; and banker Dion Silva.

New York

The Rochester Area Community Foundation has announced that president and CEO Jennifer Leonard plans to retire in September 2022 after twenty-eight years. Simeon Banister, the foundation's vice president for community programs, has been promoted to executive vice president, and the foundation's board has approved a plan for Banister to become president and CEO after Leonard's retirement. Before joining the foundation in 2017, Banister worked in the public and private sectors, including the New York State Senate, the New York Department of Taxation and Finance, the State University of New York, and several private commercial real estate firms. During Leonard's tenure, the foundation has expanded its asset base from $32 million to $578 million, nearly two-thirds of which is permanently endowed.

North Carolina

The Foundation for the Carolinas has announced that its Cleveland County Community Foundation awarded $27,200 in grants to eleven organizations in support of COVID-19 relief. Recipients include the Community Math Academy, Foothills Farmers Market, Kings Mountain Crisis Ministry, and Samaritan's Feet International.

Ohio

The Canton-based Stark Community Foundation has announced the transition of the Fred F. Silk Charitable Foundation from a private non-operating foundation to a charitable fund of the community foundation. The transfer of $16.7 million to the community foundation is the largest investment in its history. Established in 1990, the Silk Foundation received the bulk of the estate when Silk passed away in 1995 and has since provided more than $13 million in support of charitable causes across Stark County, including more than $500,000 to local nonprofits in 2020. As part of SCF, the fund will continue to provide annual grantmaking support to a number of local universities and an array of organizations that directly benefit the Stark County community and its residents.

Oregon

The Oregon Community Foundation has announced that Max Williams will transition out of his role as president and CEO after a decade of leadership. Williams will continue to lead OCF until a new CEO is selected. This month, the foundation's board of directors will begin a national search process, anticipating a nearly yearlong selection and transition process.

Pennsylvania

The Pittsburgh Foundation has announced that seventy-five artists from the region who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) will receive micro-grants of $1,000 each from the foundation's Center for Philanthropy. Awarded through the through the foundation's Mac Miller Fund, the grants are not required to fund specific projects; instead, artists have the freedom to use the funds however they see fit, including supporting their own well-being, or improving or enhancing their creative skills and talents.