Lion’s Share of Americans Support Giving Everyday Donors Tax Breaks, Poll Finds
Some 85 percent of adults say federal charity deductions shouldn’t be limited to just the wealthiest.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Global Fund Gets Powerful Help With $18 Billion Funding Goal
If the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reaches its $18 billion goal, it hopes to use the donations to save 20 million lives and avert more than 450 million new infections of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
By Glenn Gamboa
Associated Press
Creating Wealth With ‘Baby Bonds’
Nonprofits and foundations have been advancing state and local trust funds for children at birth to help them buy homes, start businesses, or pay for college when they’re older.
By Sono Motoyama
Contributor
Billionaire Khan Family Gives $15 Million for Veterinary Oncology
Plus, Hoag Hospital receives a $106 million bequest, and City of Hope, Centre College, and the American Academy in Berlin received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Bill Clinton: ‘The World’s on Fire,’ but Teamwork Can Help
Former President Bill Clinton is calling on governments, businesses, philanthropies, and other prominent institutions to draw together and help a world that is “on fire” as he reconvenes the Clinton Global Initiative, the meeting of international leaders, for the first time since 2016.
By Glenn Gamboa
Associated Press
Foundations and Government Team Up to Pay for Legal Help for Immigrants Facing Deportation
Some say government funds shouldn’t provide such services, but others say it’s a smart fiscal move since families left behind may need more social services.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Independent Sector Appoints New CEO
Also, the MacArthur and Rockefeller foundations both name new chief operating officers.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Donor Beware: Pause Before You Give to Any Cause
How donors can avoid scams and make better informed decisions when donating to nonprofits.
By Sarah Webber
Contributor
Can $100 Million Help Student-Success Programs Work Together, Rather Than Compete?
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is investing in six nonprofit groups charged with creating networks of colleges to share their practices.
By Katherine Mangan
Contributor
Philanthropy Jumps Into the Spotlight at Next Week’s U.N. Meetings
Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and Melinda French Gates will be among the leaders of meetings designed to channel new funds to solving problems like the global refugee crisis, threats to democracy, climate change, and pandemic recovery.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations