N.Y. Financier Mario Gabelli Gives Fordham $35 Million
Plus, Portland Community College lands a $5.5 million bequest from an Oregon poet that includes cash, a log cabin, and nine acres of land.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Billionaire Stephen Ross Gives $63 Million to Make Cities More Resilient
Plus, Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell gives $12 million to Greenwich Country Day School for scholarships and faculty awards.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
$42 Million Gift to Improve Health Care in Cleveland
Plus, basketball legend Michael Jordan gives $2 million to Feeding America, and NASA’s Lucy McFadden gives Hampshire College $2 million.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Give $20 Million to Holocaust Studies
Plus, six other nonprofits, including a science museum, landed big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Brown U. Lands $20 Million to Support Student Veterans
Plus, Howard University received $1 million to a new center to advance Black women leaders.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Plans to Ramp Up Giving
Blank, who co-founded Home Depot and whose net worth pegged at $6.2 billion, also says he plans to give “99 percent” of his fortune to his foundation.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Retired NBA Star Charles Barkley Gives $1 Million to Tuskegee U.
Plus, Cleveland Clinic landed $10 million for a nursing program, and four universities and one college received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How Small Charities Can Build Midlevel Donor Programs
Midlevel donors are an important but overlooked group of donors. If properly engaged though, they will keep on giving year after year and can become a nonprofit’s most loyal donors.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Billionaire Tony Ressler and Actress Jami Gertz Give $5 Million to Support Black-Owned Businesses
Plus, a San Francisco investor gives Georgetown U. $10 million, and four other donors give big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How Today’s Crises Are Affecting Young Donors’ Giving
Millennial and Generation X philanthropists advocate a humbler approach to giving that listens to people in need and the nonprofits that serve them.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor