How Billionaires Found Joy With $1 Million Gifts to Small Nonprofits
After years of big donations to big organizations, Rob and Karen Hale showered $52 million on 75 mostly small groups, bringing some nonprofit leaders to tears. <b>Plus:</b> See the rest of our <a href="https://staging.philanthropy.com/2023phil50"><b>special report</b></a> on the donors who gave the most to charity in 2022.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Small College Aimed to Bring Big Donors Into the Fold — and Won a $500 Million Pledge
The small liberal-arts institution shifted its fundraising strategy. The college now seeks to inspire potential supporters with a bold vision for its future instead of just meeting with their lawyers and accountants.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
New Names Join Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg on List of Charity’s 50 Biggest Donors
The roster includes not-so-typical megadonors — among them a professional clarinetist, a Ph.D. in meat science, and a lawyer who regularly argues before the U.S. Supreme Court. Plus: See the rest of our Philanthropy 50 special report and our entire February issue.
By Maria Di Mento and Drew Lindsay
How the Chronicle Compiled Its List of the Top 50 Donors of 2022
The 23rd annual Philanthropy 50, the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of America’s biggest donors, is based on gifts and pledges of cash, stock, land, and real estate to nonprofit organizations in 2022.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Houston Grand Opera Receives $22 Million for Young Artists Program
Plus, Temple University landed more than $10 million to help students with physical disabilities, and three other universities and a community foundation received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Disaster Relief Efforts Must Include Support for Lawyers on the Ground
A strong legal infrastructure is needed to ensure a just and fair response for residents in the aftermath of a disaster, argues public interest lawyer.
I Know Trusting Grantees Works Because It Propelled My Own Successful Career
When others doubted me, one man showed his faith in my ambition to become a business leader. Today, I’m putting that same trust in the grantees and low-income mothers my foundation supports.
By Holly Fogle
Contributor
The Rule of Law Faces Threats in the U.S. and Abroad. Philanthropy Needs to Pay More Attention.
Addressing myriad societal problems depends on a strong rule of law. Unfortunately, developing, promoting, and enforcing this fundamental component of healthy democracies isn’t on most donor radars.
By William H. Neukom
Contributor
Community Foundation Lands $100 Million From Late Clarinetist and Entrepreneur Jay Kahn
Plus, hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin gives Florida pediatric hospital $25 million, and three universities received major gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How to Advance Racial Equity: One Foundation Shares Lessons
The staff and board of the James Irvine Foundation participated in 18 months of training to embed racial equity into their programs, operations, and grant making.
By Charles Sidney Fields
Contributor
Also, the Lilly Endowment will give $30.7 million to enhance Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character, and Kaiser Permanente pledged $25 million to the Center for Gun Violence Research and Education.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Refugees Like Me Know What Our Communities Need, but Donors and Large Nonprofits Aren’t Listening
Despite growing philanthropic recognition that the most successful movements are led by oppressed groups themselves, organizations that aid refugees remains mired in their colonial roots and a continued reliance on white so-called experts.
By Sana Ali Mustafa
Contributor
UVA Lands $100 Million From Paul and Diane Manning for New Biotech Institute
Plus, Denny Sanford gave $70 million to a medical research institute, and NYU’s Stern School of Business received $25 million from Ken and Elaine Langone.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Major Funders Call for Increased Support of Black Feminists
The open letter, from the Melinda Gates’a Pivotal Ventures, Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation, and the Ford Foundation and MacArthur foundations is intended to encourage others to support historically underfunded groups.
By Glenn Gamboa
AP Business Writer
PetSmart Charities Commits $100 Million to Expand Access to Veterinary Care
Also, Fidelity Investments is awarding $250 million to efforts to enable students of color to enroll in college, and Wells Fargo pledged $20 million to its Invest Native program for economic development in Indigenous communities.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Jeff Bezos Says Giving Is Hard. That Trope Goes Back to Andrew Carnegie
When invoked too zealously, it can deflect attention from what grantee leaders often find most difficult about philanthropy: a lack of urgency, a failure to deliver resources expeditiously, and the imposition of burdensome restrictions.
By Benjamin Soskis
Contributor