Nonprofit Uses Small Grants to Help Women Out of Extreme Poverty (Podcast)
Trickle Up helps women start businesses, build savings, develop skills and confidence, and see a better life for themselves and their families.
Starr Foundation Awards Rockefeller U. $50 Million (Grants Roundup)
Also, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta will use $20 million for clinical drug trials to treat pediatric cancer, and the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund has granted $5 million to Philadelphia newsrooms.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
$100 Million Data Effort Aims to Improve Health Care in Poor Countries
The Precision Public Health Initiative is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation; Unicef; the World Health Organization; the Global Fund; the Global Financing Facility (supported by the World Bank Group); and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
European Grant Makers Pool $50 Million to Improve Air Quality
Initially, the group will support projects in Eastern Europe, India, and Britain.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Midsize Nonprofits Show Greatest Progress Closing CEO Gender Pay and Leadership Gaps, Study Shows
However, other data in the report released Tuesday indicates that progress in addressing gender disparities in pay has slowed or even reversed at most other organizations.
By MICHAEL THEIS
Contributor
Cultivating Major Donors Is Growing More Important, Study Suggests
The heads of charities have good reason for the shift: Donations from modest and midlevel donors have dropped recently, and nonprofits have been relying on big donors to pick up the slack.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
$100,000 Grants Offered to Groups With Smart Ways to Dispel Myths About the Poor
The Raikes, Robert Wood Johnson, and Kellogg foundations are working with Gates to award about $1 million to fight negative stereotypes.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Also, best-selling author Dean Koontz and wife, Gerda, gave $9 million for high-tech cancer care, and entrepreneur Elizabeth Elting contributed $5 million for women MBA students at NYU.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Drop in Attendance at Religious Services Doesn’t Always Mean Declining Revenues (Survey)
Forty-eight percent of congregations said they had increased their revenue in the previous three years, despite 38 percent reporting that attendance had shrunk, according to a new study.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
How the Annie E. Casey Foundation Uses Data to Improve the Lives of Children (Podcast)
The Baltimore grant maker focuses on advancing child welfare, rethinking juvenile justice, and finding economic opportunities for low-income children.