Goldman Sachs Foundation to Donate Up to $250,000 to 50 Black Women-Led Nonprofits
The new effort will provide unrestricted funds to groups working in health care, education, housing, digital connectivity, job creation and several other areas.
By Kristen Griffith
Contributor
U. of California at Irvine Receives Nearly $60 Million Bequest for Depression Research
Plus, two other universities, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and a health system for children all landed big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Plus, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a new chief executive, and the prominent fundraising consultant Robert Sharpe Jr died last week.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
How Black Americans Have Long Given Their Time and Money to Advance Social Change
Philanthropist Bridgid Coulter Cheadle, volunteer leader Kimberly Jeffries Leonard, and historian Tyrone Freeman discuss the people who helped form their attitudes toward giving.
By Kristen Griffith
Contributor
The organization has long been pushing donors to direct money toward nonprofits they may have never heard of before — small charities working to rebuild communities. Its peers around the country have taken notice.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Also, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation gave $15 million to develop a pediatric mental-health program in Greece and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative opens a grant competition for biomedical researchers who advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific fields.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Nonprofits That Serve Low- and Moderate-Income People Show Fewer Signs of Covid Disruption
Thirty-four percent of those charities say they continue to suffer “significant disruption” amid the pandemic, down from 71 percent during the peak of their pandemic-era distress, according to a study from the Federal Reserve.
By dan.parks
Contributor
International Nonprofit Targets the Flu to Prepare for the Next Pandemic
Ready2Respond works to strengthen flu-vaccine programs in low- and middle-income countries.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
2021’s Top Donors: Where They Live, Where They Give, and More
Find out more about America’s 50 biggest donors: their ages, sources of wealth, where they live, and where they give. And see the entire Philanthropy 50 report featuring our analysis of the list and giving trends among megadonors.
Top Donors’ Giving to and From Their Foundations and Donor-Advised Funds in 2021
Some of America’s biggest donors gave primarily to their foundations or donor-advised funds last year. Here is a sampling of how much those grant makers received and how much they gave to nonprofits in 2021.