Grants Roundup: $10M to Ohio State for Aviation and Research Facilities
Other gifts go toward an equine teaching hospital, AIDS research, fighting racism, creating new dance works, and more.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Grants Roundup: St. Baldrick’s Foundation Awards $21 Million to Cancer-Research Groups
Other awards include $15 million to 30 environmental-conservation groups from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
How an Awesome Foundation Chapter Does Giving Differently
The New York Times reports on the unusual philanthropy of the Awesome Foundation, through which a rotating cast of mostly young trustees pool funds to provide $1,000 no-strings grants to applicants pursuing often-quirky cultural or community projects.
Grants Roundup: $200,000 to San Diego Zoo Supports Rhino Conservation and More
Other awards include $1 million to expand a nationwide housing program for LGBT seniors.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
New N.Y. Grant Criteria Imperil Funding for Youth Charities
Changes in a New York State agency’s process for awarding substance-abuse prevention contracts could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for youth organizations that have long received state support, writes The New York Times.
Bloomberg Fund Picks Winners of $1 Million Public-Art Grants
Bloomberg Philanthropies on Tuesday selected culture projects in Los Angeles; Gary, Ind.; Spartanburg, S.C.; and three upstate New York cities as the winning entries in its Public Art Challenge, The New York Times reports.
Grants Roundup: St. David’s Foundation Awards Nearly $27 Million to Health-Care Groups in Texas
Other awards include $20 million from the Pershing Square Foundation supporting tuberculosis research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Grants Roundup: Houston Endowment Awards $8.2 Million to Support Needy Students
Other awards include a pledge for $3 million from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation supporting a teen pregnancy-prevention program in the Bronx.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Philanthropist Backs Effort to Train Fundraisers Like Salespeople
Some are put off by the approach, but Denny Sanford says the world of sales offers valuable lessons in how to treat donors.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Social-Media Reactions to the Ford Foundation’s New Focus on Inequality
The nonprofit world was quick to react to the foundation’s announcement that it would shift its grant making to focus entirely on financial, racial, gender, and other inequities.
By Nidhi Singh and CODY SWITZER
Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality
America’s second biggest grant maker will also double the share of grants it gives for operating support.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Detroit Looks to Draw More Foundations Into City’s Revival
The Detroit News profiles Ryan Friedrichs, the city’s newly installed chief development officer, and his work to keep philanthropic aid coming in the wake of the foundation-driven “grand bargain” that helped lift Detroit out of insolvency.
Grants Roundup: Wounded Warrior Project Awards $15.7 Million for Veterans Treatment at UCLA
Other awards include $10 million from the Nationwide Foundation supporting pediatrics genomic research.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
In Ferguson, a Gift to Heal Divisions
A pair of anonymous donors gave $100,000 to the St. Louis Community Foundation with one goal: to let a diverse group of community members decide together how it should be used.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Gifts Roundup: $400 Million to Harvard University for Engineering School
Also included is a $23 million gift to the Higley Fund, a donor-advised fund at the Cleveland Foundation.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
U.S.-Cuba Thaw Is Making American Nonprofit Work on the Island Nation Easier
The easing of travel restrictions is amplifying interest in the country’s culture and health-care system and eliminating some hurdles for charities and foundations.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor