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To Get Life-Saving Items to Ukraine, We Created Our Own Supply Chain
Nonprofit aid organizations need to consider more creative approaches to addressing the growing humanitarian toll of the war in Ukraine, including how to get food, medicine, and other critical goods to those who are struggling to survive.
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DEI Initiatives Mask Continuing Inequities Facing Women Scientists
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The Philanthropy 50
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The 2022 Philanthropy 50: Who Gives the Most to Charity
The Chronicle’s 23rd annual ranking of America’s biggest donors features a number of people making their debut, including a professional clarinetist and the world’s richest restauranteur. Bill Gates took the top spot by giving $5.1 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. -
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America’s Top Donors Are Helping to Shape the Future in an Old-Fashioned Way
Many of 2022 largest donors hewed closely to decades-old conventions of philanthropy. Two areas that attracted significant support: scholarships and medical research. Plus: See our entire special report on the Philanthropy 50. -
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The Philanthropy 50
Search or browse this year’s list of America’s biggest donors and all the past lists going back to 2000. You can sort by name, amount donated, source of wealth, location, and top cause.
Opinion
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To Get Life-Saving Items to Ukraine, We Created Our Own Supply Chain
Nonprofit aid organizations need to consider more creative approaches to addressing the growing humanitarian toll of the war in Ukraine, including how to get food, medicine, and other critical goods to those who are struggling to survive. -
Gates Foundation Should Match Its Massive Global Giving With a Massive Commitment to Accountability
Despite pledging billions to help communities around the world, the Gates Foundation has no formal mechanism for tracking the potential environmental and social harms of their investments. Such accountability systems are critical to effective philanthropy. -
As Threats to Abortion Access Grow, Emergency Philanthropic Funding Isn’t Nearly Enough
A new collaborative effort in New Mexico among nonprofits, philanthropy, and government is showing what effective responses to the reproductive health care crisis can look like.
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Philanthropy Today
California Community Foundation CEO to Retire
Plus, diversity efforts mask continuing inequities facing women scientists (letter to the editor) -
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Foundations Look Into the Ethics of Their Source of Wealth
Plus, to get life-saving items to Ukraine, we created our own supply chain (opinion) -
Fundraising Update
Everything You Need to Know About Monthly Giving
Plus, giving big boosts donors psyche
Advice
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Monthly Giving Can Help Nonprofits Weather Economic Uncertainty. Here’s How to Do It Well.
Longtime monthly donors have shown they really care about an organization’s mission. Experts say groups shouldn’t be afraid to ask them for additional gifts. -
8 Proven Ways to Engage Wealth Advisers — and Raise More From DAFs
What works — and what doesn’t — when building ties with financial professionals to attract DAF gifts. -
How the Ripple Effects of Bank Turmoil Could Affect Nonprofits — and How to Avoid Them
Damage to nonprofits appears limited so far, but charity leaders and experts urge groups to protect assets amid fears about the banking industry’s health.
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Cedars-Sinai Lands $170 Million From 2 Donors, Including Hollywood Producer Chuck Lorre
Plus, best-selling authors James and Susan Patterson gave $5 million to bolster the teaching work force in Wisconsin, and two higher-education institutions and a Baltimore area health-care system all received big gifts. -
Knight Foundation Leader to Retire, Leaving a Powerful Legacy
Alberto Ibargüen made an indelible mark by helping to save Detroit, boost the arts in Miami, and keep journalism alive and well in the internet age. -
Gates Foundation Names 3 Executives to Replace Its Retiring Chief Operating Officer
Plus, the Whitney Museum of American Art has a new director, and a former U.S. representative from Michigan will now lead Spill the Honey, a group that examines the shared history of Black and Jewish communities in the United States. -
NRA’s Path to Recovery From Financial Woes Leaves It Vulnerable to New Problems
The National Rifle Association’s financial turnaround might seem to bode well for the organization, but a look below the surface shows ominous signs. -
Ballmer Group Commits $43 Million to Train More Early-Childhood Educators of Color
Plus, CalOptima Health has given nearly $30 million to bolster services for chronically homeless people in Southern California, and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network received $25 million for research, early detection, and the development of new treatments for the disease. -
MacKenzie Scott Sets New ‘Open Call’ to Donate $250 Million
Through her organization Yield Giving, she plans to make unrestricted $1 million donations to 250 nonprofits.
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