Couple Gives $10-Million to Foster Religious Tolerance
Gift seeks to help religious leaders learn to work together to solve disease, hunger, and poverty.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Unorthodox Leader of Cleveland Fund Pushes New Ideas to Bolster City’s Economy
The new leader of the Cleveland Foundation is turning the grant maker into a venture-capital fund that seeks out new ideas to kick-start the city’s stalled economy.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Community Foundation Takes Heat for Slashing Support of Regional Collaborative Fund
The Cleveland Foundation faces controversy after it cuts spending on a group that advocates a regional approach to economic development.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Oil Tycoon Pledges $100-Million to Oklahoma State U.
T. Boone Pickens has pledged $100-million to Oklahoma State U., a commitment that places his lifetime giving to the institution at nearly a half-billion dollars.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Nonprofit Organizations Scramble to Help States and Cities Gather Census Data
Foundations and nonprofit groups are moving quickly to help money-strapped governments do all they can to guarantee an accurate census count.
By MARTY MICHAELS
Contributor
Grant Makers Commit Millions to Help Ensure Accurate Census
As the 2010 census is about to begin, foundations are pouring millions of dollars into nonprofit efforts to ensure that poor people, minorities, and others are included fully in the tally.
By MARTY MICHAELS
Contributor
How Foundations Are Seeking to Improve the Accuracy of the 2010 Census: a Sampling of New Grants
A sampling of grants that foundations have made to improve the accuracy of the 2010 federal census.
Foundation-Financed Office in Liberia Seeks to Build and Guide Philanthropic Efforts
A group of American foundations has financed a government office in Liberia that works to coordinate philanthropic efforts in the African country.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Gates Foundation Makes Changes to Improve Its Operations
Jeff Raikes, the chief executive of the Gates Foundation, is taking steps to improve the grant maker’s management capabilities, as it adjusts to new economic realities and the changes caused by its fast growth in employees.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Administrative-Support Program Honored
A family foundation in Iowa has won a national award because it sends its staff members to help local charities with technology, marketing, accounting, and other management help.
By Eugene McCormack
Contributor
Gates Announces Record-Breaking Pledge to Spend $10-Billion on Immunizations
Bill and Melinda Gates committed $10-billion from their foundation to spreading vaccines in the developing world, the largest commitment ever made by a foundation.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Putting the Gates Pledge Into Context: A Sampling of Major Foundation Gifts
How does Bill and Melinda F. Gates’s $10-billion pledge stack up against other big foundation commitments?
Bill and Melinda Gates Pledge $10-Billion for Vaccine Efforts
America’s biggest foundation makes the largest grant pledge in history to develop and deliver vaccines.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Report From Haiti: Charities Cope With Loss and Devastation
Nonprofit groups are looking at rebuilding their own presence in Haiti, as well as rebuilding much of the country itself.
By Amy Bracken
Contributor
Bill Gates Calls for New Innovative Ideas to Help the World
As part of his annual letter about his philanthropic work, Bill Gates calls for new, and sometimes experimental, efforts to innovate education and public health in Africa and other impoverished regions of the world.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
View From Haiti: Habitat for Humanity’s CEO Looks to the Rebuilding Effort
As America focuses its generosity on the immediate relief efforts in Haiti, Jonathan T.M. Reckford, chief executive of Habitat for Humanity International, hopes its attention will not wane in the months ahead.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor