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Broward Schools Receive $3 Million to Fight Middle School Isolation
The grant from the Community Foundation of Broward will support a $6 million initiative to address the social, emotional, and academic needs of isolated and struggling middle school-students....

Amherst College Receives $100 Million From Anonymous Alumnus
The gift will match "significant" contributions to the school's recently announced comprehensive fundraising campaign, which will provide resources for increasing the size of the faculty as well as academic development initiatives, with an emphasis on STEM fields....

St. Baldrick's Awards $8 Million to Continue Work of 'Dream Team'
To be matched by the eight institutions participating in the consortium, the grant will enable researchers to continue their efforts to develop new immunotherapy approaches to high-risk childhood cancers....

Community Foundation Update (04/21/18)
News and staff announcements from community foundations in California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawai'i, Indiana, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin....

NeighborWorks America Awards $65 Million in Grants
The grants to two hundred and forty-two nonprofit organizations will support efforts to develop and preserve affordable housing, revitalize neighborhoods, and create jobs....

Brown University Receives $100 Million for Brain Science Institute
The gift from alumnus and trustee Robert J. Carney and his wife, Nancy, will support research, faculty hires, and infrastructure initiatives at the university's Institute for Brain Science....

Public Health Emergency Preparedness Improving, Study Finds
According to a report compiled by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's readiness for managing health emergencies improved significantly over the past five years, though deep regional differences remain....

Lipscomb University Receives $23 Million for Business School
The gift from an anonymous donor will support multiple initiatives at the university's College of Business, which is celebrating its centennial anniversary....

Art Institute of Chicago Announces $70 Million in Gifts
The gifts include $50 million from Janet and Craig Duchossois and $20 million from Robert and Diane von Schlegell Levy....

Wealth Transfer to Reach Nearly $9 Trillion by 2027, Study Finds
The report from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, LOCUS Impact Investing, and the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship found that if just 5 percent of projected inheritances was captured by philanthropy, it could add up to $22 billion a year in grantmaking....

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Receives $23 Million From Alumni
The gift from John and Char Kopchick — the largest single gift in IUP history — will support initiatives in science and mathematics....

House Passes Bill to Require E-Filing of Nonprofit Tax Forms
If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the bill would require nonprofit organizations to electronically file their tax returns and make those forms available to the public in machine-readable, format....

$3.8 Billion Pledged to Halve Malaria Cases in Commonwealth Countries
The support pledged by governments, businesses, and philanthropies will drive efforts to prevent three hundred and fifty million cases of malaria and save six hundred and fifty thousand lives over the next five years....

Adelsons Pledge $70 Million to Birthright Israel
Las Vegas Sands Corp. chair Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, have given a total of $410 million to the organization, which sponsors trips to Israel for young Jewish adults....

Obama Foundation Announces Initial Cohort of Obama Fellows
The inaugural group of twenty fellows are applying their talents to a range of causes and initiatives, from empowering parents and teachers to improve their schools, to ensuring that deaf children have equal access to literacy tools....

More Nonprofits Met Fundraising Targets in 2017, Report Finds
The online survey of 1,222 charities by the Nonprofit Research Collaborative found that 75 percent of U.S. respondents met their fundraising goals in 2017, the highest percentage since NRC launched the annual survey in 2010....

'National Service Program' for Journalists to Help Local Newsrooms
Report for America, a nonprofit organization modeled after AmeriCorps and funded by philanthropy, is working to place a thousand journalists in understaffed newsrooms across the country by 2022....

Lustgarten Foundation, Stand Up to Cancer Create Research Partnership
With an initial commitment of $25 million from Lustgarten and SU2C, the Pancreatic Cancer Collective will work to inspire new collaborations, leverage artificial intelligence approaches to the disease, and improve and develop new diagnoses and treatments....

Boca Raton Regional Hospital Receives $25 Million Gift
The gift from Elaine J. Wold and the Bay Branch Foundation will support construction of a $260 million, 278,000-square-foot tower on the hospital’s Boca Raton campus....

Helen Diller Family Foundation Awards $50 Million to Technion
The gift will support a new Center for Quantum Science, Matter and Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology....

Akamai Creates $50 Million Endowment for STEM Education
The cloud technology company's commitment will enable the Akamai Foundation to expand its support for STEM education, with a focus on K-12 mathematics....

Connecticut College Receives $20 Million in Gifts
The gifts from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and alumna Nancy Marshall Athey and her husband, Preston Athey, will support the renovation of the college’s Palmer Auditorium and Castle Court....

UPS Foundation Awards $16 Million for Humanitarian Aid, Health Care
Grants were awarded in support of humanitarian aid, disaster relief, public health care, and road safety, including a joint effort by GAVI and Zipline to deliver life-saving blood, medicines, and vaccines to remote hospitals in Rwanda via drone....

Housing Is Key to Bay Area's Economic Future, Study Finds
Although the effects of the housing crisis are far-reaching, they affect low-income communities of color first and hardest, exacerbating longstanding racial inequities....

Hilton Foundation Awards $13 Million in Grants
The first-quarter grants will support organizations working in the areas of safe water, young children affected by HIV/AIDS, foster youth, and Catholic education....

Open Data Institute Receives $2.5 Million From Omidyar Network
The organization will use the investment to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem where people can make better decisions using data....

UCLA Receives $8.4 Million to Improve Advance Care Planning
Focused on the needs of both patients and caregivers, the grant will support research that evaluates three approaches that could be used in primary care clinics for people with advanced cancer, heart failure, and lung disease....

People in the News (4/15/18): Appointments, Promotions, Obituaries
The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector....