California

The Community Foundation Santa Cruz County in Aptos has announced thirty-six grants totaling $640,000 in support of organizations working in the areas of community development, education, health, and human services. Recipients include California FarmLink, Santa Cruz Community Ventures, Digital Nest, and Dientes Community Dental Care.

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation in Mountain View has appointed Jill Rademacher as its chief donor experience and engagement officer.

Connecticut

The New Canaan Community Foundation has awarded $8,000 to the Bob Macauley AmeriCares Free Clinic of Norwalk in support of free primary care services for low-income children and adults without health insurance, Patch reports. The grant will help cover the cost of providing patients with comprehensive health services, including lab work, medication and diagnostic testing.

Georgia

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta has announced the winners of its 2015 Ideas Challenge. This year's question was, "How would you use $10,000 to improve education in your community?" Susanna Spiccia, the first-place winner, will receive a $10,000 grant for her idea, "Youth Unifying Youth," an afterschool program that teaches students the art of film, photography, design, and other transferable skills. Beginning this fall, re:imagine/ATL, a nonprofit organization that encourages young people to empower each other across social, economic, and geographic borders through creative technologies, will work with students of Douglas High School to learn the filmmaking process and then use their design innovation skills during the second semester to create solutions to critical community issues. Other winners included Vanessa Johnson, whose E.S.T.E.A.M. Summer Camp and After School Program aims to encourage middle school girls to prepare for success by raising their self-esteem, and Tami Boyd, whose Incarcerated...Knowledge Is Freedom provides tutoring and mentoring to incarcerated girls.

Massachusetts

The Boston Foundation has announced that, during the first half of the year, it raised $174 million toward its $200 million goal in support of its Permanent Fund for Boston. The fund total to date includes $10 million in outright gifts of $1 million or more.

The Cambridge Community Foundation has appointed David E. Trueblood as its new vice president for communications and public relations.

North Dakota

Brothers Dale and Russell Brown have donated more than $8 million from their estates to the communities of Lisbon and Milnor, North Dakota, KFGO-AM reports. The Lisbon Community Endowment Fund, an affiliate of the North Dakota Community Foundation, will administer the funds earmarked for Lisbon.