Mott Grant Will Spur Studies on Community Funds
A $600,000 grant is designed to help understand why some community funds are “go-to” places and others have not flourished.
A Native-Alaskan Program Builds Engineers on Their Home Turf
Foundations are pouring money into a program that seeks to overcome barriers, like a lack of physics and math courses.
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Science Studies Get a Big Boost
Grant makers hope to interest girls and minorities in new paths and to jump-start the economy by promoting better instruction in math, technology, and education.
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Foundations Collaborate to Build Science-Teaching Ranks
Companies and foundations have poured at least $175-million into science and math programs, much of it to increase the number of instructors and improve how they teach.
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Supporting Science and Math Studies: a Sampling of Recent Grants
Science museums, youth programs, and many other organizations are benefiting from a growing emphasis on improving how American students are trained.
New Effort Seeks to Drum Up Gifts to Spread Proven Programs
The Scaling Marketplace makes it easy for foundations to collaborate to contribute large sums so high-performing charities can expand their programs.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
MacArthur Prize Winners Use Data, Communications, and Technology Creatively
The foundation is honoring seven organizations today with $1-million grants for their “outsized impact in bringing about social change.”
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
President Asks Foundations to Aid Early Education and Young Minority Men
Charity leaders say they are awaiting guidance from the White House on how to support causes the president mentioned in his State of the Union address.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Foundations Pour $370-Million Into Deal to Aid Detroit
As 10 foundations agree to help Detroit reduce its indebtedness, some observers say supporting pension-fund obligations sets a risky precedent.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
17 Foundations Join Forces to Divest Fossil-Fuel Stocks
The funds, worth $2-billion, are urging other funds to invest at least 5 percent of their endowments in clean-energy companies.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
3 Charity Groups Chosen for Grants to Spur Collaboration
Each group of charities—in Buffalo, N.Y., San Diego, Calif., and Puerto Rico—will receive $1.9-million from the Open Society Foundations to focus on addiction treatment, criminal justice, and other problems.
By Doug Donovan
Contributor
Proposed Detroit Grants Test Limits of Philanthropic Aid to Cities
Experts question whether it sets a risky precedent for grant makers to help pay for what governments usually cover.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Detroit Foundations Pledge at Least $330-Million to Save Museum’s Art Collection
As part of the city’s bankruptcy settlement, the foundations will protect the Detroit Institute of Arts collection and help pay for city retiree pensions.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Gates Picks an Oncologist as Its New Leader, the First Chief Executive Not From Microsoft
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, who is leaving the University of California at San Francisco to join the world’s richest philanthropy, helped lead development of two early gene-targeted therapies for cancer.
By Doug Donovan
Contributor
News Briefs for January 16, 2014
NEW IRS COMMISSIONER TO INVESTIGATE NONPROFIT FINANCIAL ABUSES John Koskinen, the new Internal Revenue Service commissioner, said he would investigate issues raised by a Washington Post report about nonprofits that have lost millions of dollars to embezzlement, fraud, and other wrongdoing. He was…
New Leaders Take Charge at America’s Biggest Foundations
How new CEOs at rich foundations earned their jobs and what to expect from them.