California 

The San Francisco Foundation has announced that it will award a total of $300,000 over five years to twelve Koshland Fellows to lead grassroots efforts aimed at improving the lives of people living in the Jackson Triangle and Harder/Tennyson neighborhoods. For more than thirty years, the Koshland Program has invested in neighborhood leaders with the aim of building the leadership of social innovators in the Bay Area who take on the most stubborn neighborhood problems and work collaboratively to overcome them. 

The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation, an affiliate of the San Diego Foundation, has announced grants totaling $104,000 to seven organizations in support of programs designed to catalyze leadership, engagement, and voluntarism in the community. Recipients include the Rotational Shelter Program at the Interfaith Shelter Network of San Diego, the Clean Beach Coalition at I Love a Clean San Diego, and Engage Carlsbad! at the Sustainable Surplus Exchange. 

Illinois 

The DeKalb County Community Foundation has awarded a total of $170,029 to twenty-eight nonprofit and community organizations in DeKalb County through its Community Needs grant program, Valley Life reports. Recipients include the Sandwich Opera House - ARCH, Somonauk Summer Fest, the Indian Valley Vocational Center, and Equine Dreams. 

Ohio 

The Richland County Foundation in Mansfield has announced more than $433,000 in scholarships to residents of the county. The awards include a total of 417 need-based scholarships to 140 freshmen, 100 sophomores, 78 juniors, and 99 seniors attending accredited two- and four-year colleges and universities, with 372 of the students planning to attend an Ohio school. 

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation has announced Patty Pellissier as its new communications and marketing coordinator and Molly Robertshaw as program officer in the community investment group. 

Wisconsin 

Through its Shaw Scientist Program, which provides support to emerging investigators with innovative ideas in biochemistry, biological sciences and cancer research, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation has announced grants of $200,000 each to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers Nathan Sherer, Ph.D., and Aaron Hoskins, Ph.D. Sherer, assistant professor of oncology at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, is working to understand how viral infections — HIV, in particular — spread from cell to cell. Hoskins, assistant professor of biochemistry in UW-Madison's College of Agricultural & Life Sciences, studies the cellular machines that interpret the information found in DNA genes and put it in a form that can be used by the cell.