Financier and Wife Give $25 Million to Work-Force Development Charity
Plus, Ken and Kathryn Chenault give $1 million to help formerly incarcerated people, and three universities and an art museum in Michigan land big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Texas A&M Athletics Lands $25 Million From Houston Energy Mogul
Plus, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum receives $15 million for arts education, and a science organization, an Urban League, and two universities all got big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Silicon Valley Real-Estate Mogul and Wife Give UC-Berkeley $30 Million
Plus, three donors give big gifts to support mental-health programs at two universities and at a treatment center.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Prominent Lawyer Gives Oxford $35 Million Gift That Will Also Benefit U. of Pittsburgh
Plus, Vassar College received $10 million from Hollywood producer Jason Blum.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Giving to abortion funds — even in places where helping people get the procedure is illegal — is protected by the U.S. Constitution, the author argues.
Medical College of Wisconsin Receives $50 Million to Reshape Medical Profession
Also, the University of Virginia will use a $17.6 million gift for its democracy and Civil War history programs, and the billionaire heir Howard Buffett is giving $2.7 million for humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Donor Pessimism Grows as Economy Wobbles, Poll Finds
A new survey suggests that a growing share of donors are thinking about pulling back on their giving in the year ahead.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Dolly Parton and Tipper Gore Give Big
Plus, the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven received a $35 million bequest to endow support for four New Haven, Conn., nonprofits, and the Holocaust Museum Los Angeles landed a gift of $5 million.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Washington Update: What Nonprofits Can Expect From Congress This Year
A lot of legislative activity that would affect nonprofits is brewing in Congress in the months and years ahead.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Financial Concerns Mount for Nonprofits as Inflation and Other Economic Woes Prove Stubborn
The big question remains unanswered: When do these trends become entrenched enough to cause donors to curtail giving?
By dan.parks
Contributor
Investor Gives Cornell $30 Million to Launch Real-Estate Department
Plus, five other universities landed big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Fundraisers Do Care About DAF Regulation — but We Also Need to Work Within the Current System
A fundraiser for one nonprofit takes issue with the view expressed in a recent op-ed that professionals like her aren’t interested in efforts to regulate donor-advised funds.
MacKenzie Scott Gives $122.6 Million to Big Brothers Big Sisters
The author and billionaire has given at least $1.5 billion so far this year.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
U. of Houston Medical School Lands $50 Million From Billionaire Tilman Fertitta
Plus, the Obama Foundation receives $100 million from Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky, and five universities, a mathematics institute, and a hospital in Connecticut landed big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Pandemic Has Changed Giving Strategy for Many Rich People, and Some Plan to Donate More
The biggest share of donors — 41 percent — said they gave to support causes and charities to which they had a personal tie.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Despite controversies swirling around donor-advised funds, efforts aimed at speeding money from DAFs are of minimal interest to most fundraisers. On a recent well-attended webinar on managing and using gifts from the funds, the subject didn’t even come up.
By Leslie Lenkowsky
Contributor