Large Education Gifts and Grants: a Sampling
Compiled by Amanda Marshall ALSO SEE: What Did the Money Buy? Where Annenberg’s $500-Million Education Gift Is Going Changing Schools in the Bay Area Amount Donor Purpose Year announced $500-million (over five years) Annenberg Foundation To improve public schools nationwide 1993 $350-million (over…
Changing Schools in the Bay Area
ALSO SEE: What Did the Money Buy? Where Annenberg’s $500-Million Education Gift Is Going Large Education Gifts and Grants: a Sampling Here is how the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative has spent $63-million it raised for a school-improvement effort. The Annenberg Foundation provided $25-million,…
Where Annenberg’s $500-Million Education Gift Is Going
ALSO SEE: What Did the Money Buy? Large Education Gifts and Grants: a Sampling Changing Schools in the Bay Area Grants to Large Urban School Districts Program Amount Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project $53,000,000 Children Achieving Challenge (Philadelphia) $50,000,000 Chicago Annenberg…
Annenberg’s $500-Million Failed to Change Schools, Report Charges
The $500-million school-reform effort financed by the philanthropist Walter Annenberg has done little to improve education, contends a report released last week. The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, in Washington, issued a report analyzing the Annenberg program, which was begun in 1993 to help urban…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Blanket Brigade Is 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…
Private High School Receives $35-Million From Cable TV Executive; Other Gifts
A private school and a university have received big gifts. * H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest, a cable-television executive, and his wife, Marguerite, have given $35-million to endow Mercersburg Academy, in Pennsylvania. The couple’s gift, which is unrestricted, is the fourth-largest ever to a private U.S.…
Departures of Key Staff Members Raise Questions at Markle Foundation
Departures of several top-ranking staff members at the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation are raising questions about its ability to meet its goal of giving $100-million to Internet and other technology-related projects by July 2004. Two of the three top officials who oversaw Markle’s grant…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Trade protests are prompting a review of grant-making policies As the crowds of activists who descended on Washington last week made clear, financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund face increasingly vociferous challenges to their structures and practices. When tens…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Photograph by Jess Lopatynski One might assume that out of all the professional fields, health care is the one that understands best how to treat and work with disabled people. Not so, says Brenda Premo, director of the Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions at Western University…
100 Largest Foundations by Assets, 2000
ALSO SEE: Foundation Giving Rose 17% Last Year, to $22.8-Billion, Report Says Rank Assets Total giving1 Fiscal date Previous rank 1. Lilly Endowment $14,238,193,778 $425,188,708 12/31/98 1 2. Ford Foundation $9,675,452,326 $440,400,415 9/30/98 2 3. David and Lucile Packard Foundation $9,577,894,120…
Foundation Giving Rose 17% Last Year, to $22.8-Billion, Report Says
The robust U.S. economy helped to increase foundation giving by 17.2 percent last year, ALSO SEE:100 Largest Foundations by Assets to an estimated $22.8-billion, according to a new report. That jump followed a record 21.7-percent gain in 1998, for a combined two-year increase of 42.3 percent.…
By Stephen G. Greene
Contributor
Grant Maker at IBM Foundation Is Honored for His Creativity
The Council on Foundations has given its top award for creative grant making to Stanley S. Litow, president of the I.B.M. International Foundation and vice president of I.B.M.'s corporate-community relations program. The honor comes with a $10,000 prize that the recipient can use in any way that…
By Constance Casey
Contributor
Mentors for Mothers in Oregon Are 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…
U. of Notre Dame Receives $35-Million; Other Gifts
Three higher-education institutions and a cathedral have received big gifts. * Thomas F. and Kathy Mendoza, executives at the high-technology company Network Appliance, in Sunnyvale, Calif., have donated $35-million to the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Ind. Mr. Mendoza is senior vice…