The Columbus Foundation announced today that it has established an Emergency Response Fund to support Franklin County nonprofit organizations as they assist in responding to the spread of COVID-19 in the community and experience financial challenges in doing so.

The Diamond Hill Capital Management made a historic grant to help support the community through The Columbus Foundation’s Emergency Response Fund. The $500,000 grant from the Diamond Hill Investments Charitable Foundation Fund will provide critical assistance to central Ohio nonprofits responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.