White House Gun Violence Program With Philanthropies Ends
The Biden administration had used the Community Violence Intervention Collaborative to get funding to 50 small grassroots groups to fight gun violence.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
FedEx Founder and Veteran Fred Smith Offers Unusual Gift
He financed the production of the film Devotion, about two Navy pilots in the Korean War. The film’s proceeds will go in part to endow a new scholarship fund for the children of Navy service members pursuing studies in STEM.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Damar Hamlin’s Toy Drive: What’s the Plan for the $8.6 Million?
The Buffalo Bills safety plans to use that money as well as the proceeds from the sale of T-shirts to support young people through education and sports and the Cincinnati trauma center that treated him after he suffered a cardiac arrest.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Nonprofits Strain to Support Voters in Ga. Senate Race
Many donors don’t understand that their political donations don’t advance the work of grassroots nonprofits to get out the vote, and many voters don’t know there is a runoff and are confused about whether they are eligible to vote in it.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Fidelity Charitable Launches NFT Raffle Amid Crypto Downturn
The effort aims to tap into a new generation of donors.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Gates Foundation Boosts GivingTuesday With $10 Million Donation
The new gift, announced Tuesday, also represents the Gates Foundation’s ongoing efforts encouraging people to give.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
$84.5 Million MacKenzie Scott Gift to Girl Scouts to Help It Recover From Pandemic
The group, which lost membership during Covid, plans to support volunteers and staff, make camp properties more resistant to climate change, improve science and technology education for youth members, and develop diversity and inclusion programming to make troops more accessible.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Bezos Family Donates $710M to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
The Bezos Family Foundation announced a $710 million gift to the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the largest gift the center has ever received and one of the largest to go to any single cancer research organization in recent years.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Bill Gates Says Technological Innovation Would Help Solve Hunger
In a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation report released Tuesday, he says what’s needed are innovations in the farm technology he has long funded.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
MacKenzie Scott Supports Child Mentors With $44 Million Gift
Friends of the Children provides long-term mentors for kids to keep them from entering the welfare system. Plus, see an article about MacKenzie Scott’s
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press