Google.org’s Search for a New Leader Ends With Insider Pick
Maggie Johnson, longtime vice president at Google, will lead the company’s philanthropic initiative amid a surge in A.I. funding.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Gives $165 Million for Ukraine Aid
Also, Pivotal Ventures gave $14 million to offer health-care services in schools, and the Golden Globe Foundation awarded $5 million in grants for film schools and journalism programs.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
George and Amal Clooney’s Foundation Names 2 New Co-CEOs
An international lawyer and a former general counsel at Warner Bros. Pictures will lead the grant maker.
By Glenn Gamboa
AP Business Writer
What MacKenzie Scott Wants in a Grantee — a New Analysis Offers Clues
Harvard researchers mined information about the maverick philanthropist’s nearly 2,000 grants to offer the best window yet into the types of organizations she favors.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Minnesota’s Richest Man Gives Land Worth $172 Million to Benefit Nonprofits in the State
Plus, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Ehlers-Danlos Society, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and an Outward Bound education program all received large sums.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
NIL Nonprofits Can’t Lose in College Football Playoff Championship
Numerous Name, Image, Likeness organizations, which help college athletes get compensated, have sprung up since a Supreme Court decided to allow the NCAA to pay student athletes for use of their brands, but few are nonprofits.
By Thalia Beaty and Glenn Gamboa
Associated Press
They can disrupt the kind of consensus and groupthink that contributed to the National Rifle Association’s woes.
By Dana Brakman Reiser
Contributor
Art Bridges Foundation Chooses New CEO
Plus, two community foundations have named new leaders, and the California philanthropist Betty Moore has died at age 95.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Nonprofits That Host In-Person and Hybrid Events Raise More Money
Donors seem to appreciate the chance to gather in-person again; 44 percent of respondents to a survey said their supporters attended only in-person fundraising events.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Foundation Assets Are at All-Time Highs, but Don’t Expect a Giving Boom
The stock market rally in the final stretch of 2023 left foundations with $1.48 trillion in assets.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor