Israeli University to Get $100-Million for Engineering Institute; Other Gifts
Eight institutions have received large gifts or pledges: The American Technion Society, in New York, has received a $100-million pledge from Alfred E. Mann, chairman of Advanced Bionics Corporation, in Sylmar, Calif., to establish a biomedical-engineering institute at the Technion-Israel Institute…
80% of Foundations Expect Giving to Increase or Stay the Same in 2004
A lingering stock-market slump and the after-effects of substantial endowment losses since 2000 ALSO SEE:Foundation Giving Trends, 2002 prompted foundations to decrease their giving by 2.5 percent last year, according to one of two new reports issued by the Foundation Center. Giving had also…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Helping the Poor to Save: Recent Foundation Grants
Annie B. Casey Foundation (Baltimore): To help credit unions expand their services to families ALSO SEE:A New Way to Curb PovertyAn Idea to Help the Poor Runs Into Snags that don’t use banks: $90,000 to the Woodstock Institute (Chicago). Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington): To support programs that…
An Idea to Help the Poor Runs Into Snags
Once heralded by nonprofit leaders as the best way to increase saving rates among the poor, so-called individual ALSO SEE:A New Way to Curb PovertyHelping the Poor to Save: Recent Foundation Grants development accounts have yet to catch on with many institutions that would finance them. That has…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Grant makers focus on problems caused by lack of financial savvyBaltimore Cathy Hill lives from paycheck to paycheck. A receptionist at a southwest Baltimore community center, Ms. Hill’s ALSO SEE:An Idea to Help the Poor Runs Into SnagsHelping the Poor to Save: Recent Foundation Grants money…
By Michael Anft
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Photograph by Ashley WellsSailing the world -- and the World Wide Web -- a New York charity is working to connect children in the city’s public schools to the universe beyond their own neighborhoods. Since its founding in 1998, Reach the World has run two round-the-world voyages. Crew members serve…
Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Institute for Health and Healing (Minneapolis): $1-million over six years to create and develop the center. (The couple made an additional $1-million pledge from their personal accounts.) Center for Mind-Body Medicine (Washington): $50,000 to support the CancerGuides…
Campaign Reforms May Hurt Nonprofit Groups
Leslie Lenkowsky Public-interest groups and their foundation supporters have been among the chief forces pushing for limits on contributions to election campaigns as a way to reduce the influence of special-interest money in politics. But their efforts could come back to haunt them by limiting the…
Faces of Aging, Faces of Charity
By Cassie J. Moore The array of personalities that the photographer Ed Kashi and the writer Julie Winokur captured while documenting America’s aging society defies categorization. In their book, Aging in America: The Years Ahead, the couple use striking black-and-white photographs to show war…
Carnegie Mellon U. Gets $55-Million; Other Gifts
Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration, in Pittsburgh, has received $55-million from Marlene Tepper, and her husband, David. Mr. Tepper is president and founder of Appaloosa Management, a hedge fund in Chatham, N.J., and a 1982 graduate of the university. Most of…
Astrophysicist Wins 2004 Templeton Prize
By Michael Anft George F.R. Ellis, a South African astrophysicist and cosmologist, is the winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. The annual prize is valued at about $1.4-million and is awarded to people who use the tools of science…
The Mayday Fund’s Grants: A Sampling of Awards
British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital Foundation (Vancouver, Canada): $25,000 for a documentary film that includes information on the treatment of pain in children facing a life-threatening illness. Children’s National Medical Center (Washington): $45,547 to help identify the severity of pain felt…
Small Family Fund Has Big Plans to Improve How Doctors Treat Pain
New York Shirley Steinman Katzenbach harbored a lifelong love of medicine. A onetime emergency-room volunteer and a ALSO SEE:A Family Focus on HealthGiving Patients AlternativesThe Mayday Fund’s Grants: A Sampling of Awards generous donor to health and other causes, Ms. Katzenbach was also a…
By nicole lewis
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A handful of affluent donors seek to improve careWhile many family foundations like to support health charities, most focus on the treatment or cure of a specific disease. “Families fund based ALSO SEE:Giving Patients AlternativesSmall Family Fund Has Big Plans to Improve How Doctors Treat Pain on…
By nicole lewis
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Photograph by Jim WestFiling an income-tax return is rarely easy, but the very poor face an especially bewildering maze of tax credits and deductions. In Michigan, many of the state’s poorest people can get help dealing with the complicated issues from the Volunteer Accounting Service Team of…