Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world, died in her sleep yesterday at her home in Quincy, Florida, at the age of 88.

The Columbus Foundation and Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Capital Improvement Initiative Funding Partnership announced today it has approved 28 grants totaling $3,973,941 to support capital needs for local nonprofit organizations during 2014.

Now in its fourth year, Giving Tuesday is chasing the name recognition of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Advocates say the annual day of giving — it falls on Dec. 1 this year — continues to spur more people to take a break from holiday binge-spending and donate to charity.

The late central Ohio native and pilot Jerrie Mock joined the Wright brothers, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong and other aviation greats on Thursday when she was inducted into the Paul E. Garber First Flight Shrine in Kill Devil Hills, N.C.

The Medical Mutual of Ohio Charitable Fund is announcing grants totaling $213,882 to support six central Ohio nonprofit organizations working with youth and their families to promote physical fitness, weight management and nutrition education to reduce and prevent obesity.

In America, more so than in other countries, philanthropies play a unique and important role of supporting innovative policy experiments that, when successful, often become the basis of future government actions. These successful innovations, however, tend to be under-covered by the press, and there has been no single place where citizens and public officials can go to read about them. The Successes of Philanthropy series aims to fill this gap.

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Facebook has invited The Columbus Foundation to be a beta-partner in testing the launch of Facebook’s new charitable donation features.

The Columbus Foundation is pleased to announce participants in its 2016 Summer Fellowship Program. Now in its seventh year, the program provides college students and recent college graduates the opportunity to work with central Ohio nonprofit organizations for a 10-week period.

The Columbus Foundation, the seventh largest community foundation in the United States, announced an historic all-time high in grants awarded in 2015―$176.6 million, a 23 percent increase over 2014, at its 2016 annual Celebration of Philanthropy at the Foundation.