Coalition of Grant Makers Increases Pledge for Veterans Charities to $276 Million
More foundations have joined the group, which is supporting education, employment, health care, housing, and other needs of America’s 21 million veterans.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
U. of Arkansas Campus Gets $20 Million for Arts Building
The grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation, announced Monday by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will support a new campus center for visual-arts education, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Arkansas Business write.
Cultural Preservation in Disasters, War Zones Presents Big Challenges
Recent infusions of support are helping to protect threatened treasures around the world, but advocates say philanthropy still has some catching up to do.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Colbert to Fulfill All S.C. School Requests on DonorsChoose
Comedian Stephen Colbert, in partnership with the Morgridge Family Foundation and tech firm ScanSource, will pay $800,000 to cover nearly 1,000 grant requests that public-school teachers in his native state of South Carolina have posted on education crowdfunding site DonorsChoose.org, the Greenville News reports.
MacArthur Foundation Pullback on Housing Worries Advocates
After spending $271 million over the past 15 years to study and create affordable housing — more than a quarter of it in its hometown of Chicago — the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is winding down such investments, reports the Chicago Tribune.
Gates Foundation Launches New Child-Mortality Effort
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will put $75 million into an effort to create and dispatch disease-surveillance teams to poor countries to plumb the causes of child deaths and possibly spot emerging outbreaks, The New York Times reports.
Foundations Take Broad Approach to Reducing Racial Inequalities
Grant makers support an interconnected web of programs including improved health care and an overhaul of the criminal-justice system.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Funds Pour Into My Brother’s Keeper Alliance
Other awards include $13.6 million from Sam’s Club for underserved small business communities and several awards seeking to promote STEM education.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Boston Professor in Spotlight for Criticism of Foundations
Online magazine Ozy profiles Ray Madoff, the Boston College law professor who has become a controversial figure in the philanthropic world with her views on charitable foundations and donor-advised funds.
Donna Shalala Ready for ‘Messy’ Job Leading Clinton Foundation
After raising $3 billion and navigating an NCAA investigation as president of the University of Miami, she moves to new kinds of challenges next month.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Gifts Roundup: Jewish School Gets $20 Million; $5.4 Million for Iwo Jima Monument
Other recent donations include $10 million to Cornell University for its Employment and Disability Institute and $5 million to the University of Mississippi.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Work Weekends? This Committed Donor Wants to Know
Carrie Morgridge, whose fortune comes from Cisco wealth, steers her money to groups led by people who are so committed they respond to her questions in an hour, even on Saturdays and Sundays.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Capital Ideas, Powerful Impact
As it winds down operations, Atlantic Philanthropies commissioned photographers to document its legacy.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
If a business weren’t fully capitalized, it would never take on an ambitious venture. Why should charities be any different?
By Nancy Roob
Contributor
The group’s system for making short-term internal loans while it waits for pledges to come through helps it fulfill needs as they arise.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Questions nonprofits and foundations choose not to ask.
By J. McCray and Antony Bugg-Levine