Ode to Chuck Feeney Sets the Tone for Gates Foundation
Feeney, who died in October having given away $8 billion during his life, was an inspiration to Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Duke Endowment Awards $75 Million to 3 Universities in North and South Carolina
Also, the Helmsley Charitable Trust gave $17.6 million to back programs for homeless New Yorkers with serious health needs, and the new Adobe Film & TV Fund will award $6 million to help filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds find careers in entertainment.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
2nd Big HBCU Gift This Month: Spelman College Lands $100 Million
The donation from Ronda Stryker follows a Lilly Endowment grant to UNCF to boost endowments at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Plus, CUNY, MIT, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center receive multimillion dollar gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How A.I. Could Solve Humanity’s Biggest Problems — If Philanthropy Catches Up
The president of the McGovern Foundation is focused on how the nonprofit sector can use A.I. to deploy useful tools and solve wicked problems.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies Selects New Managing Director of Programs
Also, the National Museum of Mexican Art has named its next CEO, and the longtime head of the National Council of Nonprofits will retire this summer.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Nonprofit Puts Life-Saving Surgeries in Reach for Women
The Fistula Foundation makes grants to hospitals in 26 countries to fund surgeries and recovery care for a condition caused by obstructed, often dayslong labor during childbirth.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Cellebrite Donates A.I. Investigative Tools to Nonprofits to Help Find Missing Children Faster
John Walsh, advocate for missing children and longtime host of America’s Most Wanted, said he feels outmanned by criminals all the time — especially in the courtroom.
By Glenn Gamboa
AP Business Writer
Also, Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed $250 million to train high schoolers to enter high-demand jobs in health care without a college degree, and the Lilly Endowment awarded $100 million each to the Purdue Research Foundation and the United Negro College Fund.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
The Next Test of the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision: Race-Based Foundation Grants
The Fearless Fund, an Atlanta-based venture-capital firm, and its associated foundation face a lawsuit arguing that its grants targeted to Black women entrepreneurs violate civil-rights laws.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Election years can be challenging for nonprofit fundraisers — and some are already bracing for an uphill climb.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence