MacKenzie Scott has announced her latest round of financial gifts – this time allocating $2.7 billion to almost 300 organisations. Among the groups receiving grants are many U.S. philanthropy ecosystem and infrastructure bodies, which Scott has described as ‘historically underfunded’. Among the list of grantees this time are: Candid GivingTuesday ($7 million) United Philanthropy Forum ($3 million) National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy ($3 million) National Center for Family Philanthropy Native Americans in Philanthropy (‘multi-million dollar …

The national membership association of Italian grant-making foundations and private institutional philanthropy, Assifero, has appointment Stefania Mancini as its new chair during its most recent annual general assembly. Mancini, the first women to hold the role at the association, succeeds Felice Scalvini. Mancini’s background includes a career of collaboration with a wide variety of foundations and donor advised funds. She also serves on the board of Fondazione Charlemagne, Fondazione Italiana per il Dono, and the …

Asian Philanthropists, coordinated by the Asia Philanthropy Circle, have pooled $1.5 million in funding to contribute 600,000 doses towards the COVAX global Covid-19 vaccine target. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, will match the funds – securing $3 million for the initiative. The funding will enable access to much-needed vaccines throughout Asia, where third waves of the virus are wreaking havoc in Southeast Asia, as well as beginning to crest in East Asian countries that had originally …

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has appointed Alejandra Garduño Martínez as the new director of Latin America and Caribbean programmes. Garduño Martínez has been at the Kellogg Foundation since 2012 as a programme manager and then officer, where she worked with the Foundation’s regional strategy in Mexico. ‘Alejandra began her journey with WKKF nearly a decade ago and has demonstrated keen awareness and empathy for the challenges facing families in our Mexico and Haiti regions,’ said …