Group Urges Foundations to Make More Grants Abroad
A new group is encouraging U.S. grant makers to do more giving overseas. The organization, Grantmakers Without Borders, contends that the United States should be doing far more to help the developing world. Less than 2 percent of all U.S. philanthropic giving supports international programs, it…
Venture Funds Examined in New Study
By HARVY LIPMANOrganizations that promote “venture philanthropy” continue to proliferate, ALSO SEE:Venture-Philanthropy Funds but many are new and thinly staffed, according to a new report. Venture philanthropy is a movement that seeks to apply some of the techniques of venture capitalism to the…
By Harvy Lipman
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New attention is being focused on efforts to encourage collaboration between Jews and ArabsJerusalem Israel’s Palestinian citizens do not yet know whether the past five months of violent conflicts in the Middle East will bring them political gains, but they have already begun to profit in an…
By Haim Watzman
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Photograph by Nina Berman/AuroraSeveral times a week, a group of teenage girls swap their book bags for aprons and bake desserts at the Lower Eastside Girls Club, in New York. The program, Sweet Things, is one of many free after-school and weekend activities the club offers neighborhood girls ages…
Food-Drive Coordinator Among ‘Points of Light’
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’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…
Two Pledges of $250-Million Made to Charitable Causes; Other Big Gifts
A high-technology entrepreneur and his wife are donating $250-million to the University of Colorado system. Bill Coleman, founder and chairman of BEA Systems, in San Jose, Calif., and his wife, Claudia, a former manager at Hewlett-Packard, pledged to pay that amount over five years to support an…
Large Bequest to Hewlett Fund to Make It Among the Wealthiest in United States
By HARVY LIPMANThe William and Flora Hewlett Foundation could soon become one of the nation’s five wealthiest foundations, with assets of $9-billion, due to the death this month of its founder. The foundation, created by the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company, was worth $3.7-billion as of…
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Big Gifts Go to Charities With Big Ideas — and Patience
By NICOLE LEWISOn a visit to Israel two decades ago, Louis Edelstein, a wealthy investor, ALSO SEE:America’s Top Donors, 2000Giving on a Grand Scale: a Ranking of the 60 Biggest Donors of 2000No. 2: Donor Hopes to Build a Legacy Through Focus on Urban Arts, EducationNo. 7: Paying Tribute to the…
By Nicole Lewis
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New Poll Shows How Wealthy View Estate Tax, Other Giving Issues
Eliminating the federal estate tax would not cause most people, including CHARTS ACCOMPANYING THIS ARTICLE:Philanthropy by the Wealthy: How Their Gifts and Motivations Compare With All Americans’ALSO SEE:America’s Top Donors, 2000Giving on a Grand Scale: a Ranking of the 60 Biggest Donors of…
Donor Draws on Jewish Traditions of Giving to Promote Tolerance for All
By ELIZABETH GREENEAs a boy in the 1950’s, Gary Winnick sat glued to every episode of the television ALSO SEE:America’s Top Donors, 2000Giving on a Grand Scale: a Ranking of the 60 Biggest Donors of 2000No. 2: Donor Hopes to Build a Legacy Through Focus on Urban Arts, EducationNo. 7: Paying Tribute…
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From the Kirov to the Met, Opera Lover Stakes Claim as the ‘Primo Donor’
By ELIZABETH GREENEIt is fitting that the world’s biggest patron of opera, the most lavish of the performing arts, goes in for the grand gesture. When Alberto Vilar wants something done -- a new production of ALSO SEE:America’s Top Donors, 2000Giving on a Grand Scale: a Ranking of the 60 Biggest…
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Paying Tribute to the American Dream — and Dreams of People Everywhere
By DOMENICA MARCHETTIKenneth E. Behring was raised poor in Depression-era Wisconsin. ALSO SEE:America’s Top Donors, 2000Giving on a Grand Scale: a Ranking of the 60 Biggest Donors of 2000No. 2: Donor Hopes to Build a Legacy Through Focus on Urban Arts, EducationNo. 19: From the Kirov to the Met,…
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Donor Hopes to Build a Legacy Through Focus on Urban Arts, Education
By DOMENICA MARCHETTIFrom the 1950’s to the 1980’s, Eli Broad transformed thousands of acres of farmland and orange groves into residential ALSO SEE:America’s Top Donors, 2000Giving on a Grand Scale: a Ranking of the 60 Biggest Donors of 2000No. 7: Paying Tribute to the American Dream -- and Dreams…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
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Photograph by Keith LanpherMedical care in many parts of the world often falls short of the standards typical in industrialized countries. The problem sometimes involves lack of access to sophisticated medical equipment or procedures, but can also be as simple as inadequate training in modern…
Giving on a Grand Scale: a Ranking of the 60 Biggest Donors of 2000
By STEPHEN G. GREENE and LAURA HRUBYBill and Melinda Gates’s donation of $5-billion to their foundation last year ALSO SEE: America’s Top Donors, 2000 No. 2: Donor Hopes to Build a Legacy Through Focus on Urban Arts, Education No. 7: Paying Tribute to the American Dream -- and Dreams of People…
By Laura Hruby
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