Photograph by Joy PhoenixNext month, hundreds of professional artists and children will converge on San Rafael, Calif., to turn the blacktop of the city’s streets into their own urban museum. The annual Italian Street Painting Festival, modeled on an event in northern Italy, draws around 50,000…
Donor-Advised Funds: Assets, Awards, and Accounts at a Sampling of Big Providers
From the issue dated May 30, 2002 Assets Amount distributed to charities Number of funds 2000 2001 Percent change 2000 2001 Percent change 2000 2001 Percent change Commercial Funds American Gift Fund (Newark, Del.) $4,574,407 $5,960,591 +30.3% $964,182 $1,407,853 +46.0% 120 134 11.7% Ayco…
UCLA Medical School Receives $200-Million; Other Large Donations
David Geffen, the Hollywood entertainment mogul, has made a $200-million donation to the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. The donation is the 11th-largest contribution from a private source to a higher-education institution, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.…
Housing Advocate Is Among ‘Points of Light’ Winners
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Bush’s Daily Points of Light Award. The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the president in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the…
Grant Makers Told to Use Money and Influence to Fight Global Terrorism
Chicago Foundations should use their influence and money to counteract the harmful effects of other institutions and people who wield power, Benjamin R. Barber, professor of civil-society studies at the University of Maryland, told grant makers gathered at the Council on Foundations’ 53rd annual…
By Michael Anft
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New Philanthropies Court Prosperous Indian-Americans
Last year’s earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat, which killed thousands of people and left tens of ALSO SEE:Giving Back to Their HomelandsNew Fund for Brazil Hopes to Inspire a Tradition of GivingBusinessman Turns His Success Into Opportunity for Youngsters in China thousands homeless,…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Businessman Turns His Success Into Opportunity for Youngsters in China
For Joseph Ko, education was the key to escaping a hardscrabble childhood in Taiwan and rising to his ALSO SEE:Giving Back to Their HomelandsNew Fund for Brazil Hopes to Inspire a Tradition of GivingNew Philanthropies Court Prosperous Indian-Americans current position as founder and president of a…
By Stephen G. Greene
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New Fund for Brazil Hopes to Inspire a Tradition of Giving
By Stephen G. Greene and Grant Williams About once a month, Renata Pereira -- a citizen of Brazil and an international bank associate in ALSO SEE:Giving Back to Their HomelandsBusinessman Turns His Success Into Opportunity for Youngsters in ChinaNew Philanthropies Court Prosperous Indian-Americans…
By GRANT WILLIAMS and Stephen G. Greene
Giving Back to Their Homelands
Charities worldwide get support from emigrants in AmericaIn California’s Silicon Valley, an Indian-American venture capitalist writes a large check for ALSO SEE:New Fund for Brazil Hopes to Inspire a Tradition of GivingBusinessman Turns His Success Into Opportunity for Youngsters in ChinaNew…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Frustrated by their inability to find high-quality, low-cost care for their preschool youngsters, parents at Temple B’nai Abraham, in Decatur, Ill., banded together 35 years ago to create their own program. Today, the Cooperative Nursery School is still operating, offering half-day programs to 38…
Walton Family Fund Pledges $300-Million to U. of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas has received a $300-million commitment from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation, which was created by Sam M. Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart stores, and his relatives. The grant is the largest single donation awarded by a private source to a public university…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
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$21-Million Committed to Library; Other Big Gifts
Large donations have been made to a research and cultural center and to a university: * Nancy and Charles Munger, Los Angeles philanthropists, have given $21-million to expand a research wing at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, Calif. The planned…
Health ‘Conversion’ Organizations Saw Assets Top $15-Billion in 2001
Tax-exempt organizations created when nonprofit hospitals and other health-care providers ALSO SEE: Assets of Health Care “Conversion” Foundations converted to businesses have the potential to distribute more than $750-million for health-related programs around the country this year, a new report…
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Helping Young People Leave Foster Care: Recent Grants
Andrus Family Fund (New York): For an eight-month residential program on a schooner designed to ALSO SEE:Fostering Smooth Transitions increase the self-esteem of foster youths while teaching them job skills at sea: $120,000 over three years to Community Health and Counseling Services (Bangor, Me.).…