A Family Foundation Is About to Become One of the Nation’s Wealthiest
By Suzanne PerryThe Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named after the late wife of the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett, ALSO SEE: Article: Contribution to History Article: Buffett Children Forge Their Own Philanthropic Paths Article: Warren Buffett’s Eldest Son Shifts Giving Focus to…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Children and Women Are Focus of Youngest Buffett’s Philanthropy
By Ben Gose In letters pledging $1-billion apiece to the foundations run by his three children, Warren Buffett wrote: “Expect to ALSO SEE: Article: Contribution to History Article: Buffett Children Forge Their Own Philanthropic Paths Article: Warren Buffett’s Eldest Son Shifts Giving Focus to…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
A Passion for Kids and Education Fuels Giving for One Buffett Child
By Ben Gose Susie Buffett shares her father’s passion for public education — and it is her foundation’s biggest area of focus. Ms. Buffett expects to distribute ALSO SEE: Article: Contribution to History Article: Buffett Children Forge Their Own Philanthropic Paths Article: Warren Buffett’s Eldest…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Warren Buffett’s Eldest Son Shifts Giving Focus to Humanitarian Causes
By Ben Gose Howard G. Buffett is the most restless of the Buffett children. “Type A is not quite strong enough,” says his sister, ALSO SEE: Article: Contribution to History Article: Buffett Children Forge Their Own Philanthropic Paths Article: A Passion for Kids and Education Fuels Giving for One…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Buffett Children Forge Their Own Philanthropic Paths
By Ben Gose After Warren Buffett gave the majority of his $44-billion fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ALSO SEE:Article: Contribution to HistoryArticle: Warren Buffett’s Eldest Son Shifts Giving Focus to Humanitarian CausesArticle: A Passion for Kids and Education Fuels Giving for One…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Investor’s mega-pledge signals new era for philanthropyWhen the billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced his plans to donate 85 percent of his vast fortune to charity, ALSO SEE:Article: Buffett Children Forge Their Own Philanthropic PathsArticle: Warren Buffett’s Eldest Son Shifts Giving Focus…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Presbyterian Church Gets $150-Million
By Maria Di MentoStanley W. Anderson, a Denver businessman who says he is frustrated with the steady decline in membership in the Presbyterian church, has given $150-million to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the religious denomination’s headquarters in Louisville, Ky. He said the money was to be…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Harvard Puts Plans for Health Unit on Hold
By Maria Di MentoHarvard University has halted a plan to hire 155 staff members and scholars after it failed to receive any of the $115-million Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive of the Oracle software company, promised to give the university. The proposed Ellison Institute for World Health,…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Mich. Lawmakers Offer Bill to Force Ford and Other Funds to Give More Within the State
By Ian WilhelmIn a move highly criticized by foundation leaders, two Michigan state lawmakers introduced legislation this month that would essentially force the Ford Foundation to direct at least half of its giving to the state. While the proposal is unlikely to become law, it reflects the growing…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Technology Investor Pledges $32-Million to Rice U.; Other Recent Big Gifts
Three institutions have received big gifts: Burt McMurtry, a private investor and a founding partner of Technology Venture Investors, in Menlo Park, Calif., and his wife, Deedee, have pledged $32-million to Rice University, in Houston. The money will come through a charitable remainder trust and…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Philanthopy Advice for Bill Gates
Andrew Natsios, professor of international development at Georgetown University, in Washington, and former ALSO SEE:Article: Gates Plans to Make Philanthropy His Top Focus Starting in 2008 administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development: “Choose a few countries that have competent,…
Gates Plans to Make Philanthropy His Top Focus Starting in 2008
By Ian WilhelmThis month’s announcement that Bill Gates would devote more time to the foundation that bears his name drew ALSO SEE:Article: Philanthopy Advice for Bill Gates applause from the nonprofit world, with some observers saying the move reflects his ambition to become one of history’s…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Charities Recommend Keeping Tabs on Entries in Online Encyclopedia
Wikipedia, the collaboratively written online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, contains entries ranging ALSO SEE:Article: Access for All from Bratislava to Madonna to the laws of thermodynamics. And among the more than one million articles in the English-language Wikipedia are numerous…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
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By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Grant Makers’ Overhead Costs: Corrected Figures
Due to errors in one version of the questionnaire The Chronicle sent to the nation’s largest private foundations ALSO SEE: Table: Internet Giving: How Much Charities Have Raised in The Past Five Years for its annual survey of grant making (March 23), figures for administrative and compensation…