Founders Give Gates Foundation $2-Billion, Raising Philanthropy’s Assets to $23.5-Billion
By LAURA HRUBYMicrosoft’s co-founder, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, have donated an additional ALSO SEE: Assets of the Nation’s Wealthiest Foundations $2-billion in Microsoft stock to their private foundation, raising its endowment to $23.5-billion. The Gateses made the gift to the Bill &…
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More and more large nonprofit groups are raising money online, new Chronicle survey findsA growing number of large nonprofit groups raise money online, according to a new Chronicle survey. ALSO SEE:How Much Big Charities Are Raising OnlineHow Chronicle Conducted Online Fund-Raising SurveyNonvirtual…
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Bush Decries Level of Corporate Giving to Faith Groups
By LAURA HRUBYPresident Bush has accused corporate America of discriminating against faith-based groups by refusing to make charitable awards to their programs “regardless of their effectiveness.” ALSO SEE:Fighting Poverty: an Excerpt of a Speech by President Bush Mr. Bush, speaking at the…
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Gift to Research Center Puts Mo. Couple in Billion-Dollar-Donor Club
A Kansas City, Mo., couple has donated more than $1-billion to a genetic-research center they established in 1994. ALSO SEE: Gifts of $1-Billion or More Made by Living Americans Jim Stowers, who founded American Century Companies, a mutual-fund company formerly known as Twentieth Century…
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Faith-Based Initiative Gets Mixed Support in Pew Poll
By LAURA HRUBYSeven of 10 Americans support proposals to provide government subsidies ALSO SEE:Government Aid to Religious Groups: What Americans Want to religious groups that run social-service programs, according to results of a nationwide poll released last week. But the majority of Americans…
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Giving on a Grand Scale: a Ranking of the 60 Biggest Donors of 2000
By STEPHEN G. GREENE and LAURA HRUBYBill and Melinda Gates’s donation of $5-billion to their foundation last year ALSO SEE: America’s Top Donors, 2000 No. 2: Donor Hopes to Build a Legacy Through Focus on Urban Arts, Education No. 7: Paying Tribute to the American Dream -- and Dreams of People…
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Intel Co-Founder to Put $5-Billion Into His New Family Foundation
By LAURA HRUBYGordon E. Moore, chairman emeritus of the Intel Corporation, and his wife, Betty, ALSO SEE: Assets of The Wealthiest Foundations: A Sampling have created a family foundation that over the next two years will receive $5-billion in Intel stock. In making the announcement, Mr. Moore said…
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