Plus, Omaha investor Wally Weitz gives $25 million to University of Nebraska Foundation, former Pawsox owner Madeleine Mondor gives Providence College $10 million for nursing, and two other nonprofits landed big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Chicago Botanic Garden Receives $21 Million to Save Endangered Plants From Extinction
Also, Baylor College of Medicine has received $30 million to name its new Lillie and Roy Cullen Tower, and the Stupski Foundation awarded $15 million to strengthen health clinics across Hawaii.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Nonprofits that help local economies thrive are doing the work needed to promote individual liberty and counter authoritarianism across the globe. Philanthropy should invest in them rather that pouring more funds into big government programs.
By Brad Lips
Contributor
Hedge-Fund Billionaires James and Marilyn Simons Give Stony Brook $500 Million
Plus, the Chartwell School, a private school that serves youths with dyslexia and other language-related learning issues, received a $45 million bequest, and two donors gave $25 million to help people struggling with homelessness and opioid addiction.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How to Write Grant Proposals That Get Results
Mismatches between the narrative and the budget and misjudgments in the project scope are among the common reasons grant proposals fail.
By Barbara Stratton
Contributor
IBM and Google Commit $150 Million for Quantum Computing
Plus, the University of Kentucky has received $100 million for its College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, and Yosemite National Park will use a $17 million grant to restore its most popular trails and make other improvements.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Foundations say the summer of protests following his murder changed them forever. But for many racial-justice nonprofits, the free-flowing supply of grants proved to be short-lived.
By Alex Daniels, Marc Gunther and Sono Motoyama
Grant Makers Join Together to Learn About — and Fund — Racial Justice
New pooled funds seek grants from foundations or individuals, aggregate the money, and give it away. The efforts aim to drive fundamental change by building Black nonprofits’ public-policy muscle.
By Marc Gunther
Contributor
Immunologist Timothy Springer Gives $210 Million to Institute for Protein Innovation
Plus, Va. homebuilders Dwight and Martha Schar gave $75 million for cardiovascular care, the Ms. Foundation for Women landed a $50 million bequest, and KKR co-founder Henry Kravis gave $40 million to back cancer immunobiology research.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Texas Woman’s U. Receives $15 Million to Recruit and Train More Women Airline Pilots
Also, the bank First Horizon has committed $50 million to make grants to nonprofit groups in the southeastern United States, and the InnerScience Research Fund will give up to $10 million to study how meditation may limit the progression of serious illnesses.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Aviation-Law Expert John Hoyns Gives Colgate University $20 Million
Plus, a lumber heir left a large bequest to two Bangor, Me., hospitals, and Los Angeles philanthropist Wallis Annenberg is giving $10 million to a Beverly Hills performing-arts center she helped to launch 10 years ago.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Opinion | Corrected: Stand Together’s Call for Philanthropic Pluralism Rings Hollow
Koch umbrella organization has done far more to create polarization than cure it, says the head of the nonprofit UnKoch My Campus.
Ballmer Group Awards $42.5 Million to Help More Than 100 Black-Led Groups Expand
The grants will support organizations that are less than two years old and focused on improving economic mobility.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
House Republican budget proposals over the debt ceiling threaten many programs put in place by FDR and his vice president, Henry A. Wallace. The answer, say their grandsons, is to support social movements that hold those in power accountable.
Woodruff and Whitehead Foundations Commit $100 Million for Low-Cost Housing in Atlanta
Also, the Walton Family Foundation gave $34 million to build a new theater for opera in Arkansas.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
East Palestine Disaster Shows How Philanthropy Can Halt Chemical Accidents in Their Tracks
When a derailed train leaked hazardous chemicals into an Ohio community, donors and advocates helped residents get the aid and information they needed. They also demonstrated how to effectively address and prevent future catastrophes.
By Ansje Miller
Contributor