Grants Roundup: Gates and Kresge Funds Team on $13 Million Ed Network
The Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation is also partnering on the Strong Start to Finish campaign to help more low-income and minority students succeed in college math and English.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Crowdfunding Sites Nix Appeals for Charlottesville Suspect
Mainstream online-fundraising firms say hosting campaigns to raise legal-defense funds for James Fields would violate their policies on hate speech. Also, humanitarian groups suspend Mediterranean migrant-rescue missions, fearing clashes with Libya’s beefed-up Coast Guard.
Bill Gates Adds $4.6 Billion to Foundation Endowment
America’s biggest foundation now has a lot more to give, thanks to a large transfer of its co-founder’s Microsoft stock.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
$700 Million and Counting: How Foundations Have Responded to Trump
A Chronicle chart lists major commitments grant makers linked directly to administration policies or more generally to the shifting political environment.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
In Charlottesville’s Wake, Nonprofits Urge Trump to Fire Bannon
In the wake of the violence at a white-supremacist rally in Virginia, the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center said the president’s chief strategist and other White House figures they link to white nationalism must go.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: ACLU Draws Flak From Progressives for Charlottesville Stance
Activists normally allied with the civil-liberties group blasted its legal defense of the free-speech rights of white supremacists who rallied in the Virginia city. Also, Microsoft billionaire Steve Ballmer establishes a philanthropic beachhead in his native Detroit.
Gifts Roundup: Washington U. in St. Louis Gets $10 Million for Vision Care
Other major donations include $2 million from tech executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, to advance studies in machine learning.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Chronicle Database Shows How Lucrative Mar-a-Lago Events Can Be
Many charities raised more than $100,000 at President Trump’s Florida resort last year, according to public records.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Loses Top Tech Exec
Also, the Cleveland Clinic stands by plans to hold its winter gala at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, and stolen emails reveal a Persian Gulf state’s $20 million donation to an influential foreign-policy think tank.
Northern California Grantmakers Gets First Policy Director, FINCA Hires Top Fundraiser
Plus, GM’s philanthropy chief steps down, the Lilly Endowment adds program directors, and more personnel news.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor