Writer and Producer Seth MacFarlane Gave $1 Million to Help Hollywood Workers Survive Strike
Plus, actor Eliza Dushku Palandjian and her husband, Peter Palandjian, gave Brigham and Women’s Hospital $7.5 million for substance-abuse treatment, and MacKenzie Scott gave $10 million to a group that works to expand affordable housing.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Summer Heat Waves Add Pressure to Nonprofit Economy
Inflation is cooling, unemployment remains low, and the stock market is making gains, but something more elemental — the weather forecast — took a toll on nonprofit finances in July. Across the country, heat waves, wildfires, and flash flooding have made charities’ jobs tougher.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Salesforce Foundation Promotes Becky Ferguson to CEO
Also, the Rockefeller Foundation has named the executive director of its Economic Opportunity Coalition, and the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science has tapped a new CEO.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Nonprofits Are Lobbying a Lot Less Than 2 Decades Ago, New Research Finds
One-third of organizations are taking a stand on issues that affect government spending, policies on issues like abortion and climate change, compared with about half who did so in 2000. One likely reason: the polarized political climate that could cause trouble no matter what position they advance.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Shubert Foundation Awards $37.9 Million in Unrestricted Grants to Performing-Arts Groups
Also, the Houston Endowment gave $15 million to four charities that aim to reduce homelessness, and the new Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument has received $3 million from the Mellon Foundation and Fund II Foundation.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
33 Leaders Standing Up to Big Tech in the Age of A.I.
People of color — particularly Black women — are in the vanguard of the movement to safeguard Americans against discrimination and other hazards baked into artificial intelligence.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
A Grateful Patient Leaves Texas Heart Institute $32 Million
Plus, heiress Seema Boesky gave Wayne State University $20 million for neuroscience, and financier Leon Cooperman and his wife, Toby, gave more than $13 million to support housing and programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Larry Kramer to Leave Hewlett Fund to Head the London School of Economics
As leader of one of the nation’s wealthiest philanthropies, Kramer expanded grant making for climate change, cybersecurity, protecting democracy, and advancing racial equity. He’s also backed a major effort to rethink capitalism.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Pushing Back on Bias: Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ Launches Girls Leadership Program
The program includes a middle-school curriculum as well as resources for adults and starts with difficult conversations about the systems and biases that girls face.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Catholic Charities USA Appoints Next CEO
Also, the Kresge Foundation has hired a new senior program officer for health, and the NextFifty Initiative, which makes grants to support older people and their caregivers, will install its new CEO in September.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions