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The UMass Lowell Honors seminar Experimenting with Philanthropy/Birds of Change held its awards ceremony, where the Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust and Project LEARN were each awarded $5,000. James Canning, the UMass Lowell Honors College has gone from simply being an honors program to being its own college with its very own housing for freshman students. One of these new seminars is Philanthropy for Change.

The focus of the Philanthropy for Change course is to demonstrate to students how charities and nonprofits operate, and what kind of impact they can have on a community. A representative from Texas Christian University and their philanthropy course greatly influenced Canning to create our own UMass Lowell version.

Nancy Lippe, who previously taught a similar philanthropy course at Tufts, was enlisted to head the course. Students also created their own nonprofits, including riversocks.org, where socks are collected and given to the Lowell Transitional Center.

“The main goal of the class was to find charities the class wished to award $5,000,” Kilgo said.

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AstraZeneca Foundation Awards $664K in Grants

The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation’s Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM program awarded three grants totaling $664,028 to nonprofit organizations focused on improving cardiovascular health in their region.

AstraZeneca awarded the grants to the Ashland-Boyd County Health Department in Ashland, Kentucky, St.

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This year’s award recipients include:

Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel, Inc., Business Philanthropy Award: For businesses that have provided philanthropic service beyond the scope of normal business activity.

Ritter Investments, LLC, Excellence in Business Award: For businesses that have made a positive impact in the Pleasanton community through their achievement within the scope of normal business activity.

Bob Silva, Distinguished Individual Service Award: For individuals who have contributed to Pleasanton through exceptional service to the community or philanthropic efforts.

Oracle and Nuubia, Green Business Award: For businesses (large and small) that promote sustainable environmental business practices throughout their organization for the benefit of employees, customers or the community.

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Philanthropic giving is expected to increase 4.8 percent this year, and 4.9 percent in 2016, exceeding the average rate of growth in gifts since the recession, according to a forecast released Tuesday.

Corporate giving is expected to rise 6 percent this year and 4.8 percent in 2016; gifts by individuals are projected to rise 4.4 percent and 4.1 percent during the next two years.

Gifts by estates, which are much more variable, are expected to increase 2.7 percent this year and 6.3 percent in 2016.

The projected growth, which is adjusted for expected inflation, is higher than the 3.1 percent average annual rate of growth in the years since the recession tabulated by “Giving USA” study, which is produced by the Lilly School and the Giving USA Foundation.