Foundation Hopes to Help Oklahoma ‘Switch’ From Oil to Grass
Rural Oklahoma may soon be coming full circle. Forty years after production in the state’s once-booming oil fields ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Fueling New IdeasARTICLE: Charities and Business Work to Promote Use of Alternative FuelsARTICLE: Charities Dream Up Fuel-Efficient Cars to Tempt Companies to Build…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
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Nonprofit groups are taking a more-active role in finding and promoting alternatives to oil and gasThe United States burns through more than 20 million barrels of oil a day, guzzling 18-percent more per day than it did just five years ago. More than ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Foundation Hopes to Help…
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By Anne W. Howard
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U. of Colorado Receives $20-Million; Other Gifts
Five institutions have received big gifts: The University of Colorado at Boulder has received $20-million from Marvin Caruthers, a chemistry and biochemistry professor and co-founder of Amgen, a drug-research and manufacturing company in Thousand Oaks, Calif., for an interdisciplinary biotechnology…
$100-Million Pledged to Hospital
Ann Lurie, president of Lurie Investments, in Chicago, and a former pediatric nurse, has pledged $100-million to Children’s Memorial Hospital. Her gift will help build a new facility in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood and will support pediatric-health research. The new hospital, which will be…
By Anne W. Howard
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$20-Million Committed to Jobs Effort
Four foundations have contributed $20-million to a new effort to work with the U.S. Department of Labor to train low-income people for skilled jobs that can become the basis of a strong career. The National Fund for Workforce Solutions has received commitments from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
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Community Funds Award Record Amount in Grants, Survey Shows
Community foundations awarded a record amount in grants last year, and now hold more in assets ALSO SEE:CHARTS: Community Foundations’ Assets, Gifts, and Grants in 2006 than ever before, according to an annual survey by Ohio’s Columbus Foundation. Donations to the funds, which typically raise and…
By Sue Hoye
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Community Foundations’ Assets, Gifts, and Grants in 2006
MARKET VALUE OF ASSETS (IN BILLIONS) 2000 $31.5 2001 $31.4 2002 $29.7 2003 $34.9 2004 $39.4 2005 $44.9 2006 $51.2 Top 50 1. Tulsa Community Foundation (Okla.) $3,070,835,138 2. New York Community Trust $2,042,798,738 3. Cleveland Foundation $1,889,098,831 4. Silicon Valley Community Foundation…
In Asia, a Different ‘Art of Asking’
The Asia-Pacific region currently has the third-largest concentration of wealthy individuals in the world. The number of ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Philanthropy’s New FrontierARTICLE: Building a Spirit of GenerosityARTICLE: Scrutiny by Chinese Officials Dampens Hopes of Charitable GroupsARTICLE: American…
By John Peralta
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Big Philanthropists in East Asia: a Sampling of Their Key Donations
Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong businessman, is generally regarded as Asia’s most generous philanthropist, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Philanthropy’s New FrontierARTICLE: Building a Spirit of GenerosityARTICLE: Scrutiny by Chinese Officials Dampens Hopes of Charitable GroupsARTICLE: American Grant Makers Seek to…
By Ian Wilhelm
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American Grant Makers Seek to Deepen Their Involvement in China
China is an economic powerhouse, yet it continues to face vast social, health, and environmental ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Philanthropy’s New FrontierARTICLE: Building a Spirit of GenerosityARTICLE: Scrutiny by Chinese Officials Dampens Hopes of Charitable GroupsARTICLE: Big Philanthropists in East Asia: a…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Scrutiny by Chinese Officials Dampens Hopes of Charitable Groups
A year ago, nonprofit groups in China were cautiously optimistic that their precarious relationship with the government might improve. Chinese authorities, long suspicious of charities, had just completed a yearlong, thorough ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Philanthropy’s New FrontierARTICLE: Building a Spirit…
By Paul Mooney
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Mao Zedong formed the People’s Republic of China in 1949 after a long and bloody civil war. Among ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Building a Spirit of GenerosityARTICLE: Scrutiny by Chinese Officials Dampens Hopes of Charitable GroupsARTICLE: American Grant Makers Seek to Deepen Their Involvement in…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Google Gives $30-Million to Create Space-Travel Prize
The Internet firm Google is providing $30-million to the X Prize Foundation, a Santa Monica, Calif., charity, for a new effort to encourage private organizations to develop a robotic spacecraft that can successfully land on the moon. The Google Lunar X Prize is open to nongovernmental teams of…
By Brennen Jensen
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