Moore Foundation to Give $110-Million to Help Nurses
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation plans to give $110-million over 10 years to improve the quality of nursing care for patients in five counties of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative hopes to lower patient mortality rates and improve patient care by increasing…
By nicole lewis
Contributor
Daniels Fund Lays Off One Third of Its Workers
The Daniels Fund, one of the nation’s 75 wealthiest grant makers, laid off a third of its staff and closed offices in New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming last month, as part of an effort to rein in operating costs. Daniels, the largest foundation in the Rocky Mountain region with assets of roughly…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
$20-Million Pledged to College; Other Gifts
Four donors have made large gifts and pledges: West Virginia University Foundation, in Morgantown, has received a $20-million pledge to the university’s capital campaign from Milan Puskar, co-founder and chairman of Mylan Laboratories, a pharmaceuticals company in Canonsburg, Pa. Most of the money…
Nebraska Charities Hope Local Wealth Will Help Revive Main Street
Atkinson, Neb. As the sun folds on the edge of the plains, Janet Krotter Chvala’s concerned eyes scan this corn-and-cattle town of 1,400 people. She has reason to worry. ALSO SEE:Rural Areas Reach Out to Donors The kids are moving away. Main Street is teetering. Many of the town’s residents are…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Rural Areas Reach Out to Donors
New programs aim to combat poverty in small townsPoverty is most often thought of as an urban problem, but 25 percent more poor people live in small towns or in the ALSO SEE:Nebraska Charities Hope Local Wealth Will Help Revive Main Street country than in metropolitan areas. Of the 200 counties in…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Photograph by Salena ZellersFabian Barnes, founder and artistic director of the Dance Institute of Washington, knew he wanted something “outside the standard Nutcracker” when he set out to do a holiday production 10 years ago. Thus was born The Spirit of Kwanzaa, a multimedia show that depicts the…
America’s Tradition of Helping Refugees: How One Charity Made a Difference
Since 1915, the Near East Foundation, in New York, has been providing humanitarian aid in Africa and the Middle East. To document the work of ALSO SEE:Items from the exhibit the organization, the Museum of the City of New York has mounted an exhibit showing more than 300 photographs, fund-raising…
$50-Million to Medical Center; Other Big Gifts
Four organizations recently received large gifts or pledges: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas, has received $50-million for its capital campaign from an anonymous donor. The gift will support the Clinical Services Initiative, which seeks to improve the quality of…
Ford Foundation Cuts Aid to Controversial Charity
The Ford Foundation, in New York, announced last week that it would cut off support to a Palestinian advocacy group. Ford said it made the move because of concerns about the group’s financial management, but the decision also comes after several Jewish organizations and 21 members of Congress…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Health Tops List of Causes Supported by International Grant Makers
Grant makers have been pouring a growing share of their overseas dollars into health projects, replacing ALSO SEE:International Giving by American Foundations economic development as the international cause that gets the most from foundations, according to a new report. The rise in the proportion…
By nicole lewis
Contributor
$71-Million Bequeathed by Seattle Executive
By Matt Murray The Nature Conservancy, CARE USA, and the Trust for Public Land have received more than $71-million from a Seattle woman who died in June. Priscilla Bullitt Collins, a former chairwoman of King Broadcasting, provided $28.5-million apiece to the Nature Conservancy and CARE, while the…
Skoll Foundation’s Grants: a Sampling of Awards
Acción International (Boston): $75,000 to develop model technology to streamline microcredit lending to help low-income women around the world run small businesses. Acumen Fund (New York): $400,000 to support investment in enterprises that foster civic participation in the Muslim world. Appropriate…
Former eBay executive uses wealth to encourage activismSan Jose, Calif. Growing up in Montreal in the 1970s, Jeffrey S. Skoll often daydreamed about becoming a writer who could ALSO SEE:The Skoll FoundaionSkoll Foundation’s Grant: a Sampling of Awards inspire people to solve the world’s social…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Photograph by Joseph P. SinnottIn the late 1960s, George Murphy, a New York doctor, led a successful effort to preserve a large, commercially undeveloped space in the city, a former asphalt plant that has since been converted into a 5.5-acre sports and fitness complex on the Upper East Side. The…