California

The San Francisco Foundation has announced the winners of the 2015 Community Leadership Awards. The 2015 awardees, Janice Mirikitani, Eveline Shen, and the East Bay Community Law Center exemplify the foundation’s goal of ensuring equity and opportunity for all Bay Area residents. In addition, TSFF will pay tribute to the Bay Area's next generation of leaders by awarding them with the Koshland Young Leader Award.

Connecticut

The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut in New London has announced its new strategic plan for creating a healthy, thriving, sustainable region. The plan reaffirms the foundation’s commitment to the area’s nonprofit sector and to bringing resources and knowledge to local organizations, and focuses on four impact areas: empowering youth, promoting basic needs and rights, preserving the environment, and advancing animal welfare.

Kentucky

The Community Foundation of Louisville has announced that Hillerich and Bradsby Co., makers of the iconic Louisville Slugger baseball bat and other sporting goods, is donating a two-acre parcel of land in Smoketown to the foundation. Valued at $1 million, the land will be used as part of the Wheelhouse Project, a community effort that will play a role in the revitalization taking place in the 150-year-old Smoketown neighborhood.

Massachusetts

The Cambridge Community Foundation has announced that it is changing its application deadline for fall grants from October 1 to October 15. In addition, the foundation will require only one grant proposal for the fall grant cycle, instead of multiple submissions to apply to separate funds, and will waive its requirement for an organization to submit a grant report with the application. While the grant report will still be required, the deadline has been moved to November 15.

Oklahoma

The Oklahoma City Community Foundation has announced grants totaling $153,431 through its Margaret Annis Boys Trust, Parks and Public Space Initiative, and Fund for Oklahoma City. Recipients include Edgemere Park Preservation, the Oklahoma City Bicycle Society/OKC Running Club, the Martha King Scholarship Fund, and the Oklahoma City Police Athletic League.

South Dakota

The South Dakota Community Foundation in Pierre has announced a $2 million program-related investment in an upcoming experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The largest one-time funding outflow in the foundation's history must be repaid at the end of eleven years. Made at the request of the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, the PRI will enable the Sanford Lab to purchase liquid Xenon to be used in the next generation of dark matter detector in the underground research facility, formerly the Homestake Mine.