Billionaire Leonard Lauder Gives $52 Million for Nurse-Practitioner Program
Plus, McKenzie Scott gave $15 million to support Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and three universities and the MD Anderson Cancer Center all landed big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Nonprofits Consider Leaving Twitter Over Platform’s Uncertain Future
Some organizations have paused or reduced both advertising and communications over concerns about the changes that have occurred in the weeks since Elon Musk bought Twitter.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
How MacKenzie Scott’s Giving Has Affected Grantees
The Center for Effective Philanthropy discusses its study of Scott’s giving, the experiences of the grant recipients, and implications for other donors.
Ben Jealous Will Next Lead Sierra Club; People for the American Way Promotes Svante Myrick to CEO
Also, the AARP Foundation has tapped a new president, Miriam Nelson has stepped down from the Newman’s Own Foundation, and the author Martin Morse Wooster was killed in a hit-and-run accident.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Gates Foundation Pledges $7 Billion for Health, Gender Equality, and Farming in Africa
The new funding comes as countries in East Africa and the Horn of Africa face the worst drought in decades.
By Evelyne Musambi
Associated Press
10 Years In, GivingTuesday Has Become a Day Charities Can’t Afford to Sit Out
When #GivingTuesday debuted in 2012, some people didn’t even know what a hashtag was. In the years since, the event asking donors to give online has grown in popularity so much it is now can’t-miss day for charities.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Nonprofits Urged to Move Fast to Push Their Agendas in Congress
An influx of new lawmakers means the best chance for action on the charitable deduction and other issues nonprofits care about is during the next few weeks, when the old Congress will be moving through legislation, advocates say. But it’s also crucial to start educating new lawmakers who don’t understand how nonprofits and foundations work, they said.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Charities favored by cryptophilanthropists are assessing the fallout from a scandal that reinforces skepticism about marrying the alternative currency and charitable giving.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Google.org Awards $10 Million to Feeding America to Bolster Food Banks
Also, the Perot Foundation and the Sarah and Ross Perot Jr. Foundation gave $50 million to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to endow a dual-degree program for physician-scientists, and the Rockefeller Foundation has awarded $11 million to promote Indigenous farming practices to safeguard the global food system from the effects of climate change.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Some $46 billion flowed to working charities last year, and now more money is available even as the stock market has been on a rollercoaster and could dampen charitable giving.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations