Donald Trump’s Philanthropy: How Generous Is He?
The presidential candidate last made a donation to his foundation in 2008. Its grants have been fueled mostly by other people’s donations.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Flint Philanthropies Consider Long-term Response to Water Crisis
As those in government and the community grapple to respond to the Michigan city’s public-health emergency, charities and grant makers look to broaden their support.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Grants Roundup: $40 Million to Program for Asian Health-Care Workers
Other awards include a $12 million grant from the Rasmuson Foundation to support the expansion of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Ford Foundation to Push Films on Inequality at Cannes Festival
The foundation is taking its focus on inequality to the silver screen, launching an effort at the festival’s Doc Corner film market to promote the distribution of documentaries spotlighting social-justice issues, reports Variety.
Foundation Seeks Proposals for Tech Tools to Fight Slavery
San Francisco-based anti-slavery charity Humanity United is teaming with federal agencies and other groups to develop technological means to track and combat the use of forced labor worldwide, writes The Wall Street Journal.
10 Donors Join Forces to Make $1 Billion in Grants to Help Youth Charities Grow
Blue Meridian Partners, led by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, will award up to $200 million each to high-performing nonprofits.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Gifts Roundup: $50 Million to Cornell U. and $70 Million to Barnard College
Other notable gifts include $2 million from Robert and Penny Fox to Drexel University for a center for historic costume exhibition and research.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Podcast: Using Computer Science to Benefit Social Justice
In this episode of Fundraising Fundamentals, a Ford Foundation program officer explains the advantages of having technologists working for social good.
By TONY MARTIGNETTI
Contributor
Kellogg Fund Launches National Effort to Push Racial Equity
Some 70 organizations have joined the national Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation effort unveiled Thursday by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Battle Creek Enquirer writes
Trump Pro-Veterans Site Steers Donations to His Foundation
The fundraising site, which went live Thursday in connection with the Republican presidential front-runner’s Iowa rally for veterans, directs all contributions to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, online news outlet The Federalist reports.
Another Big Grant Maker Redirects Its Giving Toward Poverty
The Irvine Foundation will end traditional arts, youths and education, and democracy grants to instead focus on ways to aid the working poor by expanding their economic opportunities and advocacy clout.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Snacks Company Creates Foundation to Promote Kindness
The Kind Foundation is planning to give prizes of $100,000 and $500,000 to people who are making a difference in their communities.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
$70 Million in Gifts Boosts Barnard College Library Plan
The New York institution announced three donations from alumnae Thursday to support the construction of a new “teaching and learning center” to replace the campus’s aging library, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Grants Roundup: $5 Million to Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center
Other awards include $2 million from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation to Say Yes Buffalo to provide college scholarships to graduates of Buffalo, N.Y., public and charter schools.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Media Mogul Zuckerman Launches $100 Million STEM Effort
Publisher Mortimer Zuckerman’s foundation made a 20-year commitment to a new scholarship and research program to foster scientific and technological collaboration between Israel and the United States, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency writes.
Gates Foundation and Britain Team Up on $4 Billion Malaria Effort
The foundation will provide $150 million to $200 million annually for the five-year effort to end malaria deaths, supplementing funding from the British government, Reuters and BBC News report.