Gates Foundation’s New Space Seeks to Balance Contemplation and Collaboration
The new Seattle headquarters of the philanthropy cost $500-million to build.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
AT&T Gives $250-Million to Help High-School Students Succeed
The telecommunications giant seeks to help more students graduate from high school and prepare for a career.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Foundations at a Glance: Marguerite Casey Foundation
The Marguerite Casey Foundation is putting $3-million into a new effort to encourage voter-registration groups to take additional steps to get poor people involved in influencing public policy.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
The Chicago branch of the Prince Charitable Trusts is dedicating new grants to help families of veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Big Grant Makers Don’t Expect to Increase Giving in 2012
Seventy-one percent of foundations told The Chronicle that their giving would be flat or would drop this year. That’s largely because their assets slipped last year by 3.5 percent and are still far from returning to pre-recession levels.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
U.S. History Center Leader to Focus on Building Museum
Michael C. Quinn will become president of the American Revolution Center in April. He now heads a fund that manages an education center focused on President James Madison.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 50 Survey Was Compiled
The 12th annual Philanthropy 50, The Chronicle’s list of America’s most generous donors, is based on gifts and pledges to nonprofit organizations of cash and stock and, in one case, an art collection. To compile the list, The Chronicle sought information from wealthy people and many of America’s…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
On Mega Pledges From Years Past, Donors Made Big Payments in 2011
The Philanthropy 50 list doesn’t include some of the best-known names in giving because those donors didn’t make any new commitments in the past year.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Most-Generous Donors Gave More in 2011 but Still Lag Their Pre-Recession Pace
The 50 biggest donors contributed $10.4-billion last year, up from $3.3-billion in 2010.
By Maria Di Mento and Caroline Preston
As Tensions Over Wealth Gap Rise, the Rich Are Giving More
The nation’s 50 most-generous donors continued to direct most of their giving to colleges, foundations, and other causes rather than social-service groups. See the entire Philanthropy 50.
By Maria Di Mento and Caroline Preston