Lurie Family Gives $50 Million to Back Autism Research
Plus, Vassar College received $28 million for its music programs, a Chicago art collector sold her collection to back quantum science, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center got $50 million.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Tips for Winning 6-Figure Grants in a Competitive Climate
This year, the competition for large foundations’ attention is fierce. Here are key strategies to stand out in a crowded field.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
In Praise of ‘Old Philanthropy’
A Chronicle op-ed wrongly dismisses the contributions of Carnegie and others, a reader writes.
Communities Fix What’s Broken as Washington Brawls
National funders back efforts to repair sewage, schools, civic health, and more. Is that a better investment than trying to stop polarization in politics?
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Barbara Kingsolver on the Urban-Rural Divide: ‘Ask Rather than Tell.’
A conversation with the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author on Appalachia, her own nonprofit work, and how philanthropy can better serve the region.
By Chronicle Staff
Contributor
Colgate U. Lands $105 Million for Student Housing Campus
Plus, the widow of the founder of Cintas gave the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra $60 million, and the Heinz History Center and two universities received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Attracting Monthly Donors and Keeping Them
Key concepts and advice for establishing or expanding a monthly giving program at your organization.
I Am a Gay Man and a Foundation Chief. Here’s How I Find Unlikely Allies
Philanthropy — dominated by the wealthy and highly educated — has become rigid in tone, exclusive in culture, and ineffective in tactics, says the outgoing CEO of the Gill Foundation.
By Brad Clark
Contributor
MIT and Other Institutions to Share $90 Million Gift
Plus, construction projects at three universities attracted more than $35 million from private donors, and nursing students at an HBCU will benefit from a $1 million windfall.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Don’t Shut It Down, Bill! Why the Gates Foundation Should Outlive Its Endowment.
Bill Gates is right to accelerate giving but wrong to close one of the most effective private funding institutions on the planet.
By Buzz Schmidt
Contributor
Abigail Disney Urges Donors to Be Braver About Giving
Donors and the leaders of major foundations and nonprofits should be willing to shoulder more risk, she says, especially at a time when more are fearful about speaking their minds.
By Glenn Gamboa
AP Business Writer
Houston Couple Gives $150 Million to Launch Pediatric Cancer Center
Plus, Georgetown University received $25 million for its nursing school, and the National Constitution Center got a $15 million donation to celebrate the founding of the United States, and the donor is loaning a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution and a document that led to the creation of the U.S. Bill of Rights.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Readers Respond to Gates Wind-Down With Calls for Change
Two philanthropy leaders weigh in on the foundation’s announcement that it will close.
Is Bill Gates’s Long Goodbye a Win for Trust-Based Philanthropy?
The foundation’s planned closure marks the end of the once-celebrated era of expert-driven giving.
By Leslie Lenkowsky
Contributor
Melinda French Gates Reflects on Legacy of Gates Foundation
The true measure of success, she says, will come years after the grant maker shuts down, in how lives will have changed as a result of its work.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
N.Y. Couple Gives $125 Million to Help Israeli Medical Students
Plus, USC Shoah Foundation landed $30 million to endow the Holocaust remembrance organization’s efforts to collect and preserve thousands of Holocaust survivor testimonies from around the world, and the Library of Congress received $20 million to purchase a rare 17th century viola for its collection.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor