Barr Foundation Awards $34.9 Million to New England Nonprofit Groups
Also, Price Philanthropies gave $10 million to accelerate training for mental-health professionals in California, and Girls Who Invest received $2 million to recruit more women and nonbinary people for careers in the investment-management industry.
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LaGuardia Community College Scores $116.2 Million From the Owners of the New York Mets
Also, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez have given two unrestricted gifts of $50 million each through their Courage and Civility Award, and two former professors at the University of Maryland at College Park have donated $27.2 million to its math department.
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Dallas Foundation Installs Julie Diaz as New CEO
Also, the Jewish Community Foundation San Diego has promoted its chief financial officer to CEO, and the effective-altruism charity The Life You Can Save has named two co-CEOs.
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Bezos Earth Fund Pledges $60 Million to Develop Protein Alternatives to Meat
Also, the Doris Duke Foundation committed $33 million to help families protect children at high risk of abuse and neglect, and the Kataly Foundation awarded $20 million to reclaim Native land in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Taps Three New Executives
Also, the Center for Nonprofit Management has installed a new CEO, and the Open Society Foundations promoted its new president from within.
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Gates Foundation Commits $180 Million to Eliminate Cervical Cancer
Also, Cancer Grand Challenges has awarded $125 million to five international research teams, and the OneOhio Recovery Foundation will deliver $51 million to efforts to prevent and treat opioid addiction in Ohio.
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WildEarth Guardians Names Next Executive Director
Also, the newly installed leader of Studio Theatre is returning to the Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Michael Lee will become president of the Museum of Chinese in America on April 1.
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Albertson Family Foundation Grants $52 Million to Idaho Groups
Also, the University of Virginia received $55 million for Alzheimer’s research and its athletics department, and the Okta for Good Fund has committed $50 million over five years to strengthen cybersecurity at nonprofit groups, among other priorities.
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Weingart Foundation Taps First Director of Black Justice and Healing
Also, the singer Josh Groban’s Find Your Light Foundation has named new leadership, and a podcast producer will take the helm of the journalism group Feet in 2 Worlds.
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Henry Luce Foundation Awards $12.3 Million to Improve Gender Diversity in STEM
Also, the Helmsley Charitable Trust gave $12 million to study how to help people with Type 1 diabetes safely exercise, and the Wyss Foundation donated $5 million to conserve the 15,500-acre Minam River Ranch in northeast Oregon.
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