Let’s Celebrate Black Women After Black History Month Ends by Giving Them More Funding
Black women continue to be left behind in areas such as economic opportunity and maternal health. Philanthropy needs to provide more money to advance the Black women who are today’s grassroots leaders, not just commemorate yesterday’s heroes.
By Elizabeth Barajas-Roman
Contributor
Will More in Philanthropy Adopt the MacKenzie or Melinda Approach to Giving?
Two women — Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott — are rewriting the rules of philanthropy. Their approaches suggest a new continuum of giving that should set the standard for the rest of philanthropic world.
By Jamie Allison and Kristin Hayden
Google.org Donates $60 Million for Technology Education and Job Training
Also, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has given $120 million to 38 grantees, and Lever for Change and the LEGO Foundation have committed $143 million in grant opportunities through their Build a World of Play Challenge.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
In Their Own Words: What Matters Most to Big Donors
Over the years, the Chronicle has talked with hundreds of major donors about what motivates them to give. Here’s a collection of some of the best advice we’ve heard.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Billionaire Cosmetics Heir Gives $125 Million to U. of Pennsylvania Nursing School
Also, Virginia Commonwealth U. has received $104 million for liver research, and a $45 million gift will create the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Giving to Community Colleges and HBCUs Soared Last Year
Philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Michael Bloomberg were big players in the flow of cash to institutions that typically don’t raise a lot of money, according to an annual survey by the Voluntary Support of Education program at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $21 Million to UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management
Also, the Richard O. Jacobson Foundation has committed $70 million to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is accepting applications from New York artists for its $125 million Creatives Rebuild New York program.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Elon Musk Gave $5.7 Billion to Charity in 2021, SEC Filing Reveals
The contributions, revealed Monday, put Musk in second place on the Philanthropy 50, the Chronicle’s annual list of top donors.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
5 Academic Institutions Get $40 Million to Promote Rethinking About the Economy
The Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network are supporting five institutions to challenge today’s notions about the role of markets and governments. They say more foundations are about to join them.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
What MacKenzie Scott’s Gift Means to Me and the Organization I Chair
Philanthropist Elaine Wynn finds a kindred spirit in MacKenzie Scott and hopes for a new generation of philanthropic leaders.
$20 Million Contribution Seeks to Spark Donor-Advised Fund Gifts to Groups Led by People of Color
The Kataly Foundation made the grant to a group that will require donors to give at least 10 percent of their assets each year.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
A new Ford Foundation-backed project aims to mend toxic societal divisions that threaten philanthropy’s most fundamental work, including its ability to bring people together to address enormous challenges such as systemic racism and climate change.
By HILARY PENNINGTON and Mark Freeman
Donors like to see their names on new building additions, and some find ways to promote diversity while doing so, but there are more direct ways to make staffs and collections more inclusive, a Georgetown scholar argues.
Goldman Sachs Foundation to Donate Up to $250,000 to 50 Black Women-Led Nonprofits
The new effort will provide unrestricted funds to groups working in health care, education, housing, digital connectivity, job creation and several other areas.
By Kristen Griffith
Contributor
U. of California at Irvine Receives Nearly $60 Million Bequest for Depression Research
Plus, two other universities, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and a health system for children all landed big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
The organization has long been pushing donors to direct money toward nonprofits they may have never heard of before — small charities working to rebuild communities. Its peers around the country have taken notice.
By dan.parks
Contributor