Candid Blog https://blog.candid.org Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:00:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 Weekly update from PND https://blog.candid.org/post/weekly-update-from-pnd-2/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 08:00:11 https://blog.candid.org/?post_type=blog_post&p=38639 A weekly update with the latest news from PND

UMass receives $50 million commitment from Robert and Donna Manning September 2, 2021 The University of Massachusetts has announced a $50 million gift from alumni Robert J. ('84) and Donna Manning ('85, '91) in support of efforts to increase access and opportunity across the five-campus university system.

The largest-ever commitment to the university includes $15 million to endow the UMass Boston nursing program, which will be renamed the Robert and Donna Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Read more.

Nearly a third of women give to crowdfunding campaigns, study finds September 2, 2021 Nearly one in three women (31.1 percent) give to a crowdfunding campaign in a typical year, compared with 32.4 percent of men, a report from the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy finds. Read more.  Rockefeller report outlines agenda for digital public infrastructure September 2, 2021 A report from the Rockefeller Foundation outlines an agenda for international cooperation on building digital public infrastructure (DPI)—systems that accomplish basic but essential functions at a societal scale and can be used to develop new applications for the greater good. Read more. Nathan Cummings Foundation names Kavita N. Ramdas president and CEO September 1, 2021 The Nathan Cummings Foundation has announced the appointment of Kavita Nandini Ramdas as its new president and CEO, effective October 4. Ramdas, who currently leads the Open Society Foundations' Women's Rights Program, will succeed interim president and CEO Rey Ramsey, who will continue to serve on the board and support the foundation's mission-aligned investing activities. Read more.

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