How Philanthropy Can Help During Crises
Collaboration with governments and businesses matters most in responding to economic hard times, natural disasters, and other tragedies, say leaders.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Making the Health-Care Law Work: A Sampling of Big Foundation Grants
$32.7-million Purpose: To help states carry out the law by giving grants in three areas—to health-care resource centers that can offer guidance to states; to consumer groups to help influence the debate in their states; and to research institutes to monitor and track the impact of the law (for two…
With an Eye on the Court, Foundations Help States Adopt Health Law
Grant makers and nonprofits are moving ahead on the assumption that the Supreme Court will uphold the law and that they must help states do the nitty-gritty work needed to carry it out.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Giving-Pledge Members Now Number 81
Twelve more very wealthy families and individuals have promised to give away at least half of their assets.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
In Boston, a Fund Seeks Promising Nonprofits to Tackle Social Ills
The GreenLight Fund, founded by a Boston venture capitalist, seeks out one innovative group a year. The effort is now expanding to other cities.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Searching for Solutions: One Fund’s Approach to Finding Top Charities
In importing new charity programs to Boston, GreenLight vets candidate organizations thoroughly to make sure their services are a good fit in the community.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Live Broadcast: Global Philanthropy Forum Annual Conference
Watch select sessions from the Global Philanthropy Forum’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., through Wednesday, April 18.
Bloomberg’s Giving to Johns Hopkins U. Tops $800-Million
The New York mayor, an alumnus of the Class of 1964, made his first gift, of $5, a year after graduation.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Gates Fund Says It Won’t Give New Money to Controversial Legislative Group
The philanthropy has come under pressure to halt support to a group that urges state legislatures to adopt ideas like the “stand your ground” law that has attracted attention in the Trayvon Martin case.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Soros Philanthropy: the Next Generation
Alexander Soros, son of the Open Society Foundations founder, starts his own grant-making organization.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
MacArthur Opens the Door to Donations by Outsiders
The Chicago fund announces a new, more flexible policy on accepting money from people not connected with the foundation.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Grant Makers Emphasize Diversity
While foundations are working to ensure their staffs are multicultural, few make grant decisions based on the ethnic and racial makeup of an organization or the people it serves.
By CODY SWITZER
Contributor
A March Madness Pool Benefits Charities
The One Percent Foundation’s “Grant Madness” will give the winners of a basketball pool the chance to donate money to their favorite causes.
By CODY SWITZER
Contributor
Who’s Behind the Evaluation Curtain
As grant makers face pressure to prove their money helps society, they are taking an array of approaches.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
In Texas, a Community Fund Lures Young Donors With a Magazine
The Austin Community Foundation wants to help its hometown shed its stingy image and inspire its youngest residents to get involved with good causes.
By CODY SWITZER
Contributor
‘New Yorker’ Profiles a Giving Adviser to the Stars
Celebrities have a tremendous ability to attract publicity and money for worthy causes, but working with them can pose some challenges for charities, the magazine notes in a look at Trevor Neilson and his Global Philanthropy Group.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor