American Arts Alliance (Washington): Appointed Rindy O’Brien, executive director of the Friends of the National Arboretum (Washington), to be director. American Heart Association, Midwest Affiliate (Overland Park, Kan.): Appointed Kevin Harker, executive vice president at the association’s…
Grant makers: The Flinn Foundation (Phoenix) and the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust (Phoenix) Program: Partnership for Personalized Medicine Purpose: To develop methods to diagnose and treat diseases based on a person’s individual genetic makeup Amount available: $45-million Web site:…
The Internal Revenue Service — in a scramble to finish its proposed overhaul of the primary informational tax form nonprofit groups file each year — has ALSO SEE:LIVE DISCUSSION: Read the transcript on live online discussion with Dan Moore, vice president for public affairs at GuideStar and Jack…
By PETER PANEPENTO
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$50-Million to Benefit Calif. Schools; Other Gifts
Eight institutions have received big gifts: The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools has received a pledge of $50-million from Richard Lundquist, owner and president of Continental Development Corporation, a commercial real-estate development and management company in El Segundo, Calif., and his…
$200-Million Donated to Calif. College; MIT and a Pa. Fund Also Win Big Gifts
Three institutions have received $100-million or more from individuals: Robert Day, a California financier, is giving $200-million to his alma mater, Claremont McKenna College, a liberal-arts institution in Claremont, Calif., to pay for a new master’s-degree program for economics and finance. Mr.…
By Maria Di Mento and Anne W. Howard
Foundations Talk About Strategy, but Few Follow Clear Plan
While many foundations say they have a strategy for their giving, a new report suggests only a small number of grant makers actually do. Based on interviews with 42 chief executives and program officers at two dozen large philanthropies, the report identifies 11 staff members who could articulate a…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Bill Clinton Announces Plans to Expand Global Charitable Effort
The former president Bill Clinton concluded his third annual Clinton Global Initiative last month by announcing that 245 individuals, governments, foundations, companies, and charities had pledged to spend or raise money toward solving global problems. Mr. Clinton also discussed how his…
By Caroline Preston
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New Structure at Carnegie Is Designed to Respond to Emerging Issues
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced that it is changing its grant making and simplifying how it categorizes its giving. After a yearlong review, which included discussions with grant beneficiaries, outside academic experts, and others, the foundation said it wanted to make its…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Secretive Philanthropist Breaks Long Silence
On an otherwise unremarkable day in November 1984, Charles F. (Chuck) Feeney arrived in Nassau, the Bahamas, as one of the wealthiest men in America, having quietly amassed a fortune based on a global empire of duty-free shops that sold liquor and luxury items. But when he boarded a flight back to…
By MARTY MICHAELS
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Picturing the Way to a Better Future
In the United States, a drink of water quenches thirst and promotes healthy growth. But for an estimated ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Fresh Look at WaterARTICLE: Global Marathon Aims to Raise Billions for Clean WaterARTICLE: Grants to Aid Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education Overseas: a SamplingARTICLE:…
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Charity Hopes to Put an End to Villages’ Water Woes
In Bishikiltu, Ethiopia, a group of villages that lie west of the capital city of Addis Ababa, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Fresh Look at WaterARTICLE: Global Marathon Aims to Raise Billions for Clean WaterARTICLE: Grants to Aid Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education Overseas: a SamplingARTICLE: Picturing…
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Grants to Aid Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education Overseas: a Sampling
Agora Foundation (Mountain View, Calif.): To study the effectiveness of its water projects, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Fresh Look at WaterARTICLE: Global Marathon Aims to Raise Billions for Clean WaterARTICLE: Charity Hopes to Put an End to Villages’ Water WoesARTICLE: Picturing the Way to a Better Future…
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Global Marathon Aims to Raise Billions for Clean Water
Inspiration, in the form of joggers, zipped past Jin Zidell as he strolled by a lake near his home ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Fresh Look at WaterARTICLE: Grants to Aid Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education Overseas: a SamplingARTICLE: Charity Hopes to Put an End to Villages’ Water WoesARTICLE: Picturing…
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As the water-project coordinator at an international adoption charity, Eric Stowe saw hundreds of ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Global Marathon Aims to Raise Billions for Clean WaterARTICLE: Grants to Aid Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education Overseas: a SamplingARTICLE: Charity Hopes to Put an End to…
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