Grants Roundup: Leavey Fund Gives $30 Million to Santa Clara U. STEM Campus
Other notable awards include $10 million from the Timken Foundation to expand eye care at the Cleveland Clinic and $5 million from Berges Family Foundation to boost a St. Louis arts center’s capital campaign.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
The Chronicle interviewed black, Native, and Muslim women who participated in the nationwide listening tour put on by the grant maker headed by Jennifer and Peter Buffett.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
5 Ways to Be More Strategic About Seeking Corporate Grants
It can be hard to get a foot in the door — but once you do, corporate foundations want to build lasting relationships, not just cut checks.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: How a Conservative Charity Helped Build Trump’s White House
The David Horowitz Freedom Center, a self-styled “School for Political Welfare,” incubated hard-line positions on immigration and Islam adopted by the Trump administration. Also, the latest twist in the battle between billionaire philanthropists over Pier 55, a planned riverfront performance space in New York.
Daily News Roundup: Questions Raised on Conservative News Site’s Nonprofit Ties
Most of the journalists providing content for the for-profit Daily Caller are empoyed by a foundation that shares office space with the right-wing outlet. Also, a New York drug-treatment charity admits to multimillion-dollar Medicaid fraud, and a Maine grant maker looks to turn a post-industrial town into an artist colony.
New Community Foundation Aims to Combat Islamophobia
Started by a young fundraiser, the American Muslim Fund has set a goal of raising $5 million by the end of 2020.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Conservative Foundations Aren’t Racing to Change Grants Strategy Because of Trump
Concerns about the president’s ideological allegiance and his troubled White House may be getting in the way of an aggressive approach by right-leaning grant makers.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Late ‘Simpsons’ Co-Creator’s Fund Debuts With $1 Million PETA Grant
Other notable awards include $20.5 million from the H&M Foundation to help three global aid groups show the effectiveness of their work.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Innovative nonprofits and foundations are turning to impact investing to attract commercial capital to their causes. But some observers worry the investments that blend social and financial returns could change the way donors think about charitable giving.
Commercial giants like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock are the big players in a burgeoning field, but philanthropic institutions increasingly view their investments as tools to tackle the world’s toughest problems.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Building the Market for Impact Investments
Charities and foundations are tackling gaps in impact investing’s infrastructure to help fulfill the field’s promise of social and environmental change.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Impact-Investing Pioneers Take Stock
For more than a decade, the Heron and Northwest Area foundations have invested their endowments with the goal of spurring social good. They’re drawing on lessons learned to tweak their approaches.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Inside Ford’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Mission Investing
Fifteen years after putting money from its program budget into Tesla as part of its environmental and economic-development strategy, the foundation is staking a hefty chunk of its endowment on similarly mission-focused investments.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
How Grant Makers Can Turn Real-Estate Assets Green
Foundations’ property investments and capital grants should go toward buildings that avoid wasting water and polluting the earth.
By Dennis Creech and Denis Hayes
By Teaming to Help Immigrants Become Citizens, Grant Makers Can Reject Today’s Vitriol
A campaign involving more than 100 foundations and charities is working to stem the tide of vitriolic nativism by helping legal immigrants attain U.S. citizenship.
By Cathy Cha, Geri Mannion, Angela Cheng and Leslie Dorosin
Daily News Roundup: Chicago Family Gives $100 Million for Immune-System Research
Also, medical groups say President Trump’s proposed cuts in HIV/AIDS funding could cause the virus to surge again in Africa, and the head of the Conrad Prebys Foundation sues trustees over a payment to the late San Diego philanthropist’s son.