• The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announces new grantmaking initiative - one that simplifies the application process and reduces wait time to charities in Maryland.  [Baltimore Sun]

• Three former leaders of a defunct Boston-based Islamic charity go to trial for tax fraud.  [Boston Globe]

MSNBC: A 100-year-old woman who quietly amassed a vast fortune before her death last year left $35.6 million to local diabetes and cancer research. Eugenia Dodson donated two-thirds of the money to the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute, the largest gift in its 35-year history. The rest goes to the university’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

“She didn’t want any recognition in her lifetime, so she directed her lawyer to keep it confidential,” said Dr. W. Jarrard Goodwin, director of the Sylvester Center. “I told her people would be grateful. She said, ’No, I don’t want anyone to know.”’