Syracuse U. Gets $75 Million From the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Also, the Center at Sierra Health Foundation is accepting applications for $20 million in grants to help young people battling addiction in California.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Calif. Bill Would Require Greater Disclosure of Donor-Advised-Fund Activity
The legislation could create momentum for national efforts to boost the transparency of donor-advised funds.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
UVA Nursing Gets $20 Million; Charles Barkley Gives $1 Million to Miles College (Gifts Roundup)
Plus, Hope for Haiti, an Oregon YMCA, and Dana-Farber land big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Hillel International Announces New CEO (Transitions)
Also, the Rockefeller Foundation has named the next managing director for its Africa office, and Joan Irvine Smith, an heiress who helped establish the U. of California at Irvine and Children’s Hospital of Orange County, has died at age 86.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
How Participant Media Tries to Spark Social Change Through Film
The production company’s films include An Inconvenient Truth, Roma, Human Flow, and the recent Dark Waters.
Tufts Report on Sackler Giving Offers Cautionary Tale for Dealing With Controversial Donors
Seasoned fundraisers who have read the independent report say they were surprised that the university courted the Sacklers even as Purdue’s legal troubles mounted and it signed an agreement that gave the company a big say in shaping an academic program.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Sharon Alpert Set to Leave Nathan Cummings Foundation
Alpert led the grant maker’s move to invest all of its assets in companies that promise a social or environmental benefit in addition to shareholder returns. She will step down by the end of the month.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
City Year Receives $13 Million for 8th-Grade Graduation Program (Grants Roundup)
Also, Habitat for Humanity will use $11 million to deliver occupational-therapy services at home, and $10 million from the Ford Foundation will provide free museum admission to Detroit middle-schoolers visiting the Henry Ford.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Most Donors of $10,000 or More Don’t Plan to Increase Giving
A third of those donors say they could be persuaded to contribute more, according to the Burk Donor Survey.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Editor’s Notebook: Marking a New Decade
Race. The economy. Capitalism. Generational change. Those are among the big issues that philanthropy will grapple with in the year — and decade — ahead, as you’ll read more about digging into our January issue.