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By Audrey Hill
Contributor
Climate Change and Poverty Top Google’s Giving Priorities
This article was updated after The Chronicle’s print edition went to press. For the full text, go to http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=3783 Tackling climate change, emerging health threats, and poverty in developing countries will top Google.org’s philanthropic agenda. After more…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New York Amid old hotels, church missions, a furniture shop, and numerous restaurant-supply stores, the 31-year-old New Museum last month opened a new building on this city’s infamous Bowery street. And unlike anything else in this gritty neighborhood of worn bricks and faded signs, the new New…
By Sam Kean
Contributor
Three Charities Win Money to Vastly Expand Operations
A foundation known for encouraging its most-successful grantees to think bigger is now helping those organizations raise “growth capital” from other foundations so that the charities can carry out aggressive expansion plans. The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, which focuses on charities that serve…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
$1.2-Billion Pledged by Hilton Heir
By Maria Di MentoThe hotel mogul William Barron Hilton has pledged $1.2-billion to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, in Reno, Nev., and last month announced his plans to give most of the rest of his fortune to the organization when he dies. The $1.2-billion gift will push up the total value of the…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Biggest Grants Announced in 2007
Amount Foundation Recipient Purpose $500-million BP America (Chicago) U. of California at Berkeley To create the Energy Biosciences Institute $200-million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation (Rockville, Md.) To conduct clinical trials of potential vaccines…
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By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
Biggest Gifts and Pledges Announced by Individuals in 2007
Amount Donor Purpose or beneficiary $1.2-billion (pledge) William Barron Hilton, co-chairman of the Hilton Hotels Corporation To the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Reno, Nev.) $700-million Jon M. Huntsman Sr. founder of the Huntsman Corporation, and his wife, Karen To the Huntsman Foundation (Salt…
Donations From Corporations Increased by 4.8% in 2006, New Study Finds
Corporations increased their giving by a median of 4.8 percent last year, according to a new study. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, in New York, based its findings on data provided by 136 companies, 55 of which ranked among Fortune magazine’s 100 most-profitable corporations. The…
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
Donor Pledges $70-Million to Oral Roberts University; Other Gifts
Eight institutions have received big gifts: Oral Roberts University, in Tulsa, Okla., has received a pledge of $70-million from Mart Green, founder of Mardel Christian and Educational Supply, in Oklahoma City. Mr. Green has already given the institution $8-million, and will donate the remainder if…
Europe Sees Philanthropy as Crucial to Fueling Scientific Innovations
European philanthropy can play a vital role in bolstering science across the continent, but foundations and other donors must be prepared to take risks, speakers at a conference here last week told participants. The event brought together about 120 foundation, government, and university officials…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Philanthropy’s Challenge: Communicating Its Value to Society
Susan V. Berresford joined the Ford Foundation in 1970 as a research assistant.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
For Many Americans, Donating Is Not a Yearly Activity, Study Finds
Many Americans who give to charitable causes do so only intermittently, according to a new study. Researchers at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy surveyed the same 8,000 households about their charitable giving in three years: 2000, 2002, and 2004. They found that only 56 percent gave…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Donors Seek Better Charity Evaluations
Like the people who created GiveWell, a new group that publicly evaluates how well charities do their jobs, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Quest for the BestARTICLE: Evaluation Process Proves Slow Going for Grant MakerARTICLE: A Zagat’s for Charities a growing number of donors are looking for ways to measure…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Evaluation Process Proves Slow Going for Grant Maker
Anyone who wants to know how GiveWell — which says it operates the “world’s first completely ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Quest for the BestARTICLE: Donors Seek Better Charity EvaluationsARTICLE: A Zagat’s for Charities transparent charitable grant maker” — selects which charities should get its money need…
By SUZANNE PERRY
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