Foundations

In its largest gift ever to a Charlotte institution, the Leon Levine Foundation will announce today a gift of $20 million to Carolinas HealthCare System to create a cancer institute that will bring higher levels of care to communities across the Carolinas. Although headquartered in Charlotte, the new Levine Cancer Institute will expand access to cancer specialists, treatment, research and support services for patients served by 32 hospitals owned or managed by Carolinas HealthCare, the third-largest public hospital system in the country.

The Toronto Community Foundation is the 2010 recipient of the Greater Toronto Chapter of Association of Fundraising Professionals' "Outstanding Foundation" award. The award is one of seven given out by AFP every year.

A three-year, $9 million grant program focused entirely on arts and culture in Philadelphia is to be announced Wednesday by the Knight Foundation, a Miami-based philanthropy. Dubbed the Knight Arts Challenge - funding from the foundation must be matched from other sources - the program seeks applications focused on every arts sector and from individuals as well as organizations and institutions.

The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting has received a $100,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. The bilingual investigative nonprofit group received the grant last week.

The center's mission is to work in the state's public interest by exposing corruption, waste and miscarriages of justice. The center's office is located at the International Media Center, a nonprofit program at Florida International University dedicated to training journalists in Latin America. The center's reporting will be published online and through media partners.

The Warwick Foundation of Bucks County has made a gift of $29.8 million to Delaware Valley College as part of a $37 million final round of gift giving.

The gift includes a 398-acre property in Warwick, Pa., worth about $14.8 million that will become a second campus for the Doylestown, Pa.-based college; a $10 million endowment to maintain the new campus and fund its academic programs and initiatives; and $5 million in unrestricted funds.

The Philadelphia Orchestra has received a $4.5 million pledge to its recovery efforts - the single largest vote of confidence to date in its still-evolving institutional vision. The award comes from the William Penn Foundation, which specifically cited the orchestra's new leadership as an impetus and stipulated that the money be split into three separate allocations:

$3 million will go directly to the orchestra's emergency bridge fund, bringing to $13 million the total raised for the effort, which has a current goal of $15 million.

Annual Golf Outing Fundraiser Set for September 17 NEW YORK, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Michael Lynch Memorial Foundation, a program that has provided $1.6 million in college scholarships to children of firefighters and victims of the September 11 attacks as well as other U.S. disasters, today announced its 2010 grant recipients. The awards, which this year totaled more than $250,000, go to high-school students who have demonstrated academic excellence, participated actively in school programs and athletics, and contributed selflessly to their communities, often while working part-time jobs to help support themselves. The Foundation also announced that its annual

Last year, billionaire fund manager Stanley F. Druckenmiller shifted $700 million of his own money to his family foundation. Before the transfer, the foundation had assets of about $6.5 million.

Transferring a quarter of his reported net worth to the nonprofit earned Druckenmiller the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s No. 1 ranking of largest individual charitable contributions in 2009. That year, he and his wife, Fiona, gave $100 million to New York University’s Langone Medical Center to create a neuroscience institute.

The Board of Trustees of The Prudential Foundation recently approved $3.575 million in grants to nonprofit organizations dedicated to quality public education, enhancing community-based economic development, and sustaining livable communities.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, today announced its 2010 Technology Innovation grant recipients, representing organizations from around the world working on issues ranging from poverty to human trafficking to helping at risk children. The Technology Innovation grants are awarded to visionary nonprofit organizations who are customizing their use of salesforce.com's technology to support their and others' abilities to implement their social change missions. This year's 15 recipients received a total of $240,000 and access to a dedicated salesforce.com employee volunteer to share their expertise and best practices