High Point U. Receives $15-Million Donation From Furniture Executive; Other New Gifts
Four institutions have received big gifts: High Point University, in North Carolina, has received an unrestricted gift of $15-million from David R. Hayworth, former chief executive officer of Alma Desk Company, an office-furniture manufacturer in High Point. The gift will help build new facilities,…
$400-Million Pledge to Aid Students at Columbia U.
The media magnate John W. Kluge has promised to provide $400-million to Columbia University when he dies, the largest gift a living donor has pledged to an American college or university, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Mr. Kluge, a 92-year-old self-made billionaire who attended the…
By Anne W. Howard
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Big Grants from Foundations: a Snapshot From History
While the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s $500-million commitment to combat childhood obesity ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Grant Maker Pledges $500-Million to Help America’s Kids Slim Down is one of the largest made for a single cause, it is not the biggest in history. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in…
By MARTY MICHAELS
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Foundations Seek to Tie Investments to Their Charitable Missions
A growing number of foundations are making loans or investments to achieve their charitable goals, says a new report. The report, which examined 92 philanthropies, says the number of funds involved in so-called mission-related investing doubled in the last 10 years, with 42 active in such…
By Ian Wilhelm
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Grant Makers Increased Giving by 8.2% Last Year, New Report Says
Grant makers in the United States awarded $40.7-billion in cash, corporate products, and other gifts last year, an increase of 8.2 percent from 2005 after inflation, according to new estimates released by the Foundation Center, a New York research group. Community foundations increased the amount…
By Noelle Barton
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Doris Duke Foundation Gives $100-Million to Help Slow Global Warming
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced last week that it plans to spend $100-million over the next five years to halt global warming, marking one of the biggest commitments by a single grant maker to that effort. But foundations are increasingly showing interest in the cause of climate…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
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Foundations Collaborate to Promote Easy Access to Fresh Food
The Lumpkin Family Foundation, in rural Illinois, wants to ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: What’s for Dinner?ARTICLE: Grant Maker Pledges $500-Million to Help America’s Kids Slim DownARTICLE: A Philadelphia Effort to Spread ‘Local Food’ Raises Its Ambitions improve the local economy of the farm communities in…
By Debra E. Blum
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A Philadelphia Effort to Spread ‘Local Food’ Raises Its Ambitions
Danilo Burgos, owner of a grocery and takeout store in West Philadelphia, wants to ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: What’s for Dinner?ARTICLE: Grant Maker Pledges $500-Million to Help America’s Kids Slim DownARTICLE: Foundations Collaborate to Promote Easy Access to Fresh Food offer his customers the big juicy…
By Debra E. Blum
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Grant Maker Pledges $500-Million to Help America’s Kids Slim Down
In the hope of speeding up efforts to fight the growing problem of childhood obesity, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: What’s for Dinner?ARTICLE: A Philadelphia Effort to Spread ‘Local Food’ Raises Its AmbitionsARTICLE: Foundations Collaborate to Promote Easy Access to Fresh FoodARTICLE: Big Grants from…
By nicole lewis
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Grant makers come to the table to support local foodJon M. Jensen of Cleveland’s George Gund Foundation has a theory ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Grant Maker Pledges $500-Million to Help America’s Kids Slim DownARTICLE: A Philadelphia Effort to Spread ‘Local Food’ Raises Its AmbitionsARTICLE: Foundations…
By Debra E. Blum
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Grant maker: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.) Purpose: To support scientists who have recently started their careers and are conducting research in biology, chemistry, computational biology, engineering, medicine, or physics Amount available: $600-million over two years Web site:…
New Magazines Seek Readers Interested in Acting Upon Their Good Intentions
A stack of new magazines is hitting newsstands or showing up in mailboxes this ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: On the Newsstand: New Publications About Philanthropy year to satisfy what the publications say is a growing curiosity among Americans about how to help the world. Their target audience is composed…
By Ian Wilhelm
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$33-Million Award Promised to Va. University; Other Gifts
Four higher-education institutions have received big gifts: H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest, founder of Lenfest Communications, in Wilmington, Del., and chair of the Lenfest Foundation, in West Conshohocken, Pa., and his wife, Marguerite, have promised to match all gifts up to $33-million made to Washington…