Bentonville, AR - Today, Walton Family Foundation Board Chair Carrie Walton Penner announced the selection of Caryl M. Stern as the foundation’s new executive director. Stern is a dynamic change-maker with deep experience in serving others....

Austin, TX - Last December, longtime St. David’s Foundation CEO Earl Maxwell announced his plans to retire at the end of 2019, pending the recruitment of a new CEO for the Austin-based health foundation.

Today the Foundation announced...

Phoenix, AZ - When the recession hit in 2008, it manifested itself in the housing collapse in the Valley that tested the resilience of nearly every community. “Upside down” in their mortgages, neighbors left over night. Houses were abandoned....

Dallas, TX – Philanthropy Southwest announces its new slate of board members and officers.

HOUSTON (Jan. 7, 2015) Fewer Texans say they have problems paying their medical bills in 2015 compared with 2013, according to a new report released by the Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF) and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Dallas, TX – Philanthropy Southwest announces its new slate of board members and officers.

Philanthropy Southwest member foundation Paso del Norte Health Foundation recently announced its new board chair and board members for 2015-2016.

The American Red Cross is providing shelter, food and relief supplies in response to devastating floods and tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma.

Linda May, Board Chair, The Simmons Foundation and PSW Legislative Network Committee Member

A key component of the Episcopal Health Foundation’s vision is the idea that to truly transform community health, the need to address the root causes of health problems is necessary, not just repeatedly treating the symptoms.

Foundations regularly provide capacity building support to nonprofit organizations, but it’s less typical for foundations to support the growth and capabilities of fellow funders. The Kirkpatrick Foundation’s relatively modest grant support of $12,500 gave the smaller Southwestern Urban Foundation the ability to redefine its direction and mission, develop a strategic plan, and communicate about their grantmaking.

Antoinette Malveaux, Managing Director Casey Family Programs, Seattle, Washington...

Mary Jane Rynd, Executive Vice President and CFO Virginia G. Piper...

Casey Family Programs is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Casey Excellence for Children Awards.

David Mendez will begin a two-year term as chair of the Houston Endowment board of directors in 2015. He has served as a director since 2006. Mr. Mendez will follow Linnet Deily as chair. Deily will continue to serve as a director.

Mr....

The Catholic Foundation has announced that Vicky P. Lattner will serve as chair of its Board of Trustees beginning in 2015. The current chairman, Tom Codd, Jr., will maintain a position on the board as Chairman Emeritus.

A trustee since...

Dallas, TX - Philanthropy Southwest today announced its new slate of board members and officers. Timothy Schultz, President and Executive Director of the Boettcher Foundation in Denver, Colorado, will serve as president. He succeeds John E. Brown...

Episcopal Health Foundation leaders today announced a detailed plan to improve community health across 57 Texas counties. The new $1.2 billion foundation believes its One Vision, Three Goals, Seven Strategies plan will help transform the health of families most in need through a different way of philanthropy.

The Boettcher Foundation has selected 20 Colorado nonprofits for grant funding toward community enrichment projects in the state. The projects will be awarded a total of $815,000 in support of capital projects.

If adopted, the Act would make the IRA charitable rollover permanent, simplify the private foundation excise tax, and extend the deadline for claiming charitable contributions.

Twenty-eight organizations have received $714,000 in the last eighteen months from the Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation of Dallas to provide critical services in Arkansas communities. The King Foundation provides grants in the areas of...

Several San Antonio-area organizations are joining forces to tackle childhood obesity.

The Children's Hospital of San Antonio, H-E-B, The Culinary Institute of America San Antonio and Goldsbury Foundation announced their initiative this...

The Boettcher Foundation Board of Trustees released the names of the seven early-career scientists selected for the fifth class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program. The announcement was made by April Giles,...

April 28 — Most observers don't think the entirety of Rep. Dave Camp's (R-Mich.) Tax Reform Act of 2014 will be enacted this year—or any year soon—but practitioners are concerned that some of the provisions affecting tax-exempt organizations may...

The Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy is now accepting applications for the 2014 cohort. The Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy is a long-term initiative to expand the number of Arizonans who are committed to state-level public service and...

Denver, CO – The Conference of Southwest Foundations, the oldest membership association for grantmakers in the U.S., today announced the organization is now Philanthropy Southwest. The 65-year-old association is made up of more than 200 member...

Phoenix, Arizona - University of Arizona researchers have been awarded a $200,000 two-year seed grant by the Flinn Foundation through its Promoting Translational Research in Precision Medicine grants program to find out how a virus that flies...