Gates Foundation Awards $7.7 Million for TB Research
Part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, the grants will support biomarkers research that facilitates development of a low-cost, simple-to-use tool that can quickly and accurately diagnose TB in low-resource settings....
Richard King Mellon Foundation Awards $22 Million to University of Pittsburgh
The grant will be used by the Center for Energy in the Swanson School of Engineering to create faculty positions and graduate fellowships, establish a fund for innovative research, and support infrastructure and operating costs....
Rich Students Outpace Others in Educational Achievement
While the education sector has made great strides in narrowing the achievement gap between white and black students over the past few decades, recent research suggests the gap between rich and poor children has widened substantially....
Knight Foundation Awards $1 Million to JumpStart America
The challenge grant is designed to help JumpStart America raise an additional $14 million to expand its efforts to twenty additional cities over the next three years....
In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell talks with Stephanie Shirley and Roberta d'Eustachio, of Ambassadors for Philanthropy.... 
Laura Barooshian and William Jenczyk of consultancy DiCicco, Gulman & Co. explain why private foundations should want to be audited....
PND spoke with the co-founder of Venture Philan-
RIF, the largest children's literacy nonprofit in the country, provides free books and online educational portals in English and Spanish to help children of all ages and their families....
On the blog, FC prez Brad Smith describes some of the challenges related to gathering data about foundation giving; and Michael Edwards argues for seeing philanthropy as an ecosystem....
