September 28, 2016
Also, patient-advocacy charities lay low in the debate over rising drug prices, and a data company pledges $100 million in software to nonprofits and schools.
September 27, 2016
Clients of the donor-advised-fund provider directed more than half of their grant making to causes in their home states in fiscal year 2016, according to new data on their giving.
September 27, 2016
Grant makers' active role in redeveloping the Motor City is drawing close attention from other regions in economic distress.
September 27, 2016
Also, Yale University bucks the 2016 trend of college-endowment losses, and new census data shows the first significant drop in U.S. proverty since the Great Recession.
Special Report
September 06, 2016
Fundraisers focused on harnessing the baby boomers' wealth and millennials' energy risk missing out on the giving potential of the demographic cohort in between.
September 27, 2016
Jamie Smith had served as co-interim leader of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network since January. Her top priorities include fundraising and managing growth.
September 26, 2016
By focusing on the best minds and seeking lots of advice, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are reminding donors of the power of basic science — and smart philanthropy.
September 26, 2016
Other notable gifts include $66 million from a University of Vermont-trained physician to endow his alma mater’s medical school.
September 26, 2016
The money will be used to provide food and medicine to people, including Holocaust survivors, living in the former Soviet Union.
September 26, 2016
Plus, more on the Zuckerberg-Chan pledge to fund disease-eradicating research and a controversial Bay Area socialite's refusal to give up a leadership role at one of the region's premier cultural institutions.
September 26, 2016
Benjamin Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg trial lawyer, donated $1 million to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to use the law to prevent mass killings. He plans to continue giving that amount annually for up to 10 years.
