Cleveland Couple Give $28 Million to Back Scholarships at Ohio Private School
Plus, Milwaukee Area Technical College, City College of New York, and three universities all landed big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
MacKenzie Scott’s Giving Total Is $12.8 Billion — So Far
Charities have announced 12 donations totaling $347.4 million from the philanthropist since the beginning of April, according to a Chronicle tally.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Maryland Congressman and Wife Give $10 Million for Mental-Health Services and Hillel
Plus, MacKenzie Scott strikes again: The billionaire novelist gave nearly $39 million to Junior Achievement USA, her second eight-figure gift in the last two weeks.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
MacKenzie Scott Gives $55 Million for Affordable Housing Efforts in Los Angeles
Plus, three universities received large donations to support music programs, campus construction, and better understanding of U.S. institutions.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Sergey Brin Gives Nearly $127 Million to 2 Nonprofits
Half the money went to Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease research charity while the rest went to Brin’s family foundation.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
3 Women Share Lessons From Running Family Foundations
Stacy Schusterman, Regan Pritzker, and Anne Earhart explain whether recent global crises have changed their giving and talk about the power of philanthropy to improve people’s lives.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Wendy Schmidt Gives Big to Protect the Ocean and Fight Climate Change
She and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, have poured nearly $2.2 billion into their philanthropies since 2019.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Wendy Schmidt’s Advice for Donors
Wendy Schmidt leads her and her husband’s broad network of philanthropies, the largest of which is the $2 billion Schmidt Family Foundation, which they started in 2006.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
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