Daily News Roundup: Stars Sport ACLU Support in Oscar Fashions
Also, a look at Salesforce’s influential “Pledge 1%" model for corporate giving and the rise of cause gift cards targeting millennial consumers.
Grants Roundup: Citi Takes Jobs Program Global; Lilly Backs Vietnam Memorial Expansion
The Citi Foundation commits another $100 million to its career-training Pathways to Progress effort, and the Lilly Endowment gives $10 million to help build an education center at the Washington monument to Vietnam veterans.
By Rebecca Koenig
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Grants Roundup: National Christian Foundation Donates Mass. School Campus
Other notable awards include $8 million for Onward Israel and $4 million for education programs at Lincoln Center.
By Rebecca Koenig
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Daily News Roundup: What Makes a Charity Campaign Go Viral?
A University of Cambridge study examines key characteristics of breakout fundraising and awareness efforts like the ice-bucket challenge. Also, a major science publisher reaches an agreement with the Gates Foundation on “open access” research.
5 Steps to Building Ties with Corporate Employees
Volunteer help, pro bono support, and eventually money can come from building ties with employees at companies.
By Rebecca Koenig
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Grants Roundup: $279 Million From Gates Backs Health-Data Work
Other notable awards include $2.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance diversity in Philadelphia music-education programs.
By Rebecca Koenig
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Decline in Giving by Individuals Last Year Kept College Fundraising Flat
U.S. universities raised $41 billion, barely more than the previous year. Harvard led the way, taking in nearly $1.2 billion.
By Rebecca Koenig
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Daily News Roundup: ACLU Rallies Left With Front-Line Fight on Trump Actions
Also, a refugee-resettlement charity faces an uncertain future in the wake of President Trump’s bid to restrict immigration, and Republican members of Congress call for amending the Johnson Amendment.
Grants Roundup: Cornell’s College of Business Gets $150 Million
Other notable grants include $2 million from the James M. Cox Foundation to renovate the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta and $1.5 million from the Omidyar Network to the Nigerian organization BudgIT.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Faith-Based Resettlement Charities Decry Trump Order
Also, household-products giant SC Johnson and its CEO give $150 million Cornell’s business school, and a Republican gay-rights group commits to working with the Trump White House.
Big Charities Closed Out 2016 With a Surge in Donations
Nonprofits hope 2017 will be a success, too, but worry about President Trump’s position on numerous issues and that an economic downturn might be looming.
By Timothy Sandoval and Eden Stiffman
Daily News Roundup: Finalists Named for $20 Million X Prize Moon Shot
Also, David Cameron joins the nonprofit world as head of a British Alzheimer’s charity, and the New York Philharmonic loses its president.
Grants Roundup: Stella Artois Gives Nearly $5 Million to Water.org
Other recent grants include nearly $10 million from the M.J. Murdoch Trust for 50 organizations and $3.2 million from the Episcopal Health Foundation for medical programs for the poor.
By Rebecca Koenig
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Daily News Roundup: Public TV and Arts Agencies Reportedly on Trump’s Chopping Block
Also, the departing first couple solicits public ideas for making the Obama Foundation a “start-up for citizenship,” and Jewish nonprofits across the country are hit with a second wave of bomb threats.
Gates Foundation Pledges $100 Million to Prevent Epidemics
The private grant maker is one of a number of organizations and governments contributing to a planned $1 billion fund to develop vaccines for viruses that pose the greatest threat to public health.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grants Roundup: $25 Million From Koch Groups Backs Research at Black Colleges
Other notable awards include $10 million from the Koret Foundation for Israel’s Beit Hatfutsot museum and nearly $10 million from the Gates Foundation to broaden access to birth control in developing countries.
By Rebecca Koenig
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