Broad Institute Receives $100 Million for Endowment
The gift from the Broad Foundation is the first installment of Eli and Edythe Broad's $400 million pledge to build the endowment of the genomic medicine institute, which has grown to more than a thousand scientists in only five years....
Meyerhoff Family Philanthropy Shifts Grantmaking Focus to Struggling Middle Class
Led by a new generation of family members, the Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds has shifted its grantmaking focus from U.S. cultural institutions and high-profile causes in Israel to supporting middle-class families in Baltimore....
Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $1 Million to Accelerate Parkinson's Research
Made through MJFF's Rapid Response Innovation Awards program, the grants will support research based on little or no existing preliminary data but which has the potential to open entirely new ways of understanding or treating Parkinson's disease....
Young Americans Interested in 'Voluntourism,' Survey Finds
According to a University of California San Diego Extension survey, high school and college students are more likely to have considered taking a so-called "volunteer vacation" than working adults and retirees....