San Diego Civic Organization Lands $20 Million From 95-Year-Old Sailing Great
Plus, Harvard received $300 million from hedge-fund manager Kenneth Griffin, Robert Smith donated $15 million for career-readiness programs for underserved high-school students, and Kathryn and Kenneth Chenault gave Bowdoin $2 million to honor a civil-rights leader.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Foster-Care Veteran Gets $47.5 Million From Audacious Project to Redesign Child-Welfare System
Sixto Cancel argues that people who have experienced the child-welfare system are the ones to make it better. Now some of America’s biggest philanthropists are betting that he’s right.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Greenpeace USA Taps First Black Woman Executive Director
Also, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation has named its next CEO, and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan will install a new chief operating officer in July.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Hess Corporation Commits $50 Million to Bolster Plants’ Role in Mitigating Climate Change
Also, a $40 million grant to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California will support a new partnership in biomedical research, and 31 nonprofit groups with Muslim leaders will share $2 million from the Pillars Catalyze Fund.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Muslim Donors Embrace New Technology, Giving Methods During Ramadan
More are using donor-advised funds and other progressive methods to share during the holy month.
By Rasheeda Childress
Senior Editor, Fundraising
Billionaire Financier Kenneth Griffin Gives Harvard $300 Million
The new gift brings the Citadel founder’s lifetime support of his alma mater to more than $500 million.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Lauder Cosmetics Heirs Pledge $200 Million to Develop New Drugs to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease
Plus, Jeff Bezos’s parents gave $21 million to a program to help infants and their families; and four other nonprofits landed big gifts from donors, including Byron Trott, a merchant banker to the uber-wealthy, who gave $20 million to help start a new national effort to help students from rural areas and small towns go to college.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Americans Know Little About Charities — and Very Few Think Nonprofits Can Solve Problems, Poll Finds
The first comprehensive study to measure public attitudes on foundations and nonprofits shows Americans have little knowledge of the difference organizations make in their lives. Just a third say they make a lot of difference to society.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
CFLeads Appoints New President and CEO
Plus, the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy has installed a new leader, and World Central Kitchen has promoted its next CEO from within.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Lauder Family Pledges $200 Million to Its Alzheimer’s Research Work
The sons of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder, along with her four grandchildren, pledged $200 million Tuesday to the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, a nonprofit the family founded to support research into finding a cure for the disease.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press