Gifts Roundup: Catholic and Charter Schools Get Millions of Dollars
Other notable recent gifts include $8 million for the Campbell University Law School from one of the investigators in the Watergate scandal, and $10 million for the Kennedy Center.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Economic Matchmaker Revs Up Next Phase of Philanthropy in Detroit
Ryan Friedrichs, the city’s new director of development, discusses his efforts to get residents, foundations, and local government singing the same tune.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Gates Foundation Backs Program to Strengthen Primary Care
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming with the World Health Organization and the World Bank on an effort to close data gaps that weaken the provision of primary health care in poor and middle-income countries, The New York Times reports.
New Leader at Cummings Brings Experience With Family Boards
Sharon Alpert takes over the New York foundation as it seeks stability after the previous president was ousted by heirs.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
How Philanthropy Can Play a Key Role in Advancing the New U.N. Development Goals
The targets should get support from foundations that work in the United States as well as overseas.
By Vikki Spruill
Contributor
Clinton Foundation Kicks Off Marquee Conference With Shalala at the Helm
Speakers at this year’s event in New York include Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank; Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft; and Ursula Burns, chief executive of Xerox Corporation.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
A Grant Seeker’s Guide to Understanding Foundations
A primer with definitions of different types of foundations from Daniel N. Belin, author of Charitable Foundations: the Essential Guide to Giving and Compliance.
By Daniel N. Belin
Contributor
Grants Roundup: $75-Million Commitment From Microsoft to Expand Youth Computer-Science Education
Other awards include a total of $20 million from the Warren Alpert Foundation to Harvard Medical School to establish a health-care policy professorship, a research fund, and a fund for current needs at the school.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
The Pope’s Visit Offers a Challenge to Nonprofits
Already Pope Francis has stimulated more giving, but his visit to the United States will put renewed emphasis on aiding the poor.
By Tom Watson
Contributor
Charter-Schools Backers Plan Massive L.A. Fundraising Effort
Charter supporters in Los Angeles have drafted a strategy to place half of the city’s 260,000 students in the independently run schools by 2023 and raise nearly half a billion dollars to back the plan by tapping leading philanthropists and foundations, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Big Gifts for U. of Wisconsin and Harvard
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced a $22-million donation Thursday from the Grainger Foundation to boost tutoring and peer-to-peer learning opportunities for engineering students, the Wisconsin State Journal reports, and the research-focused Warren Alpert Foundation pledged $20 million Thursday to Harvard Medical School, Bloomberg writes.
New IRS Rule Likely to Make Impact Investing Easier
The agency offers guidance to grant makers just days before Kresge announces it will commit 10 percent of assets to social investing.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Bloomberg Helps Launch Website to Improve Coordination in Africa
The site, also supported by the King Baudouin Foundation and the Foundation Center, tracks grant making in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Small Baltimore Charities Win Grants in Response to April’s Riots
Most recipients have annual budgets of less than $100,000. The money will go toward programs that deal with hunger, unemployment, recidivism, and other causes.
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Grants Roundup: $30 Million From Bloomberg Philanthropies for Arts Nonprofits in 6 Cities
Other awards include $16 million from the Jim Joseph Foundation supporting Hillel International.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
L.A. Donor Pledges $30 Million From Art Sale to Synagogue
All proceeds from arts patron Audrey Irmas’s auction of a 1968 Cy Twombly painting, expected to fetch more than $60 million, will go to her foundation, with a portion earmarked to support Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s construction of a new events center, reports the Los Angeles Times.