Charitable Giving Expected to Grow 3.6% in 2017
All types of giving will increase, including from individuals, foundations, and corporations, a study predicts.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Grants Roundup: $28 Million Award Backs Teacher Education in Miss.
Other notable grants include $3.75 million from the Ford Foundation for artists’ housing and $3 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help Wikipedia make educational media more publicly accessible.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Grants Roundup: $20 Million From St. David’s Foundation Supports Tex. Health Care
Other notable awards include $2.5 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to develop new arthritis treatments.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Fledgling Charity Pulls Offer to Big Donors of Time With Trumps
Also, Google’s giving arm donates $30 million for nonprofits to meet tech needs, and British charity regulators rule that Jediism is not a religion.
Other notable awards include $10 million from the Joyce Foundation for work in employment, gun-violence prevention, and other areas and $5 million from the MacArthur Foundation to support documentary filmmaking.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Giving Via GoFundMe Passes $3 Billion Mark
Also, Amazon raises its profile in Seattle philanthropy amid a downtown building boom, and the NFL de-pinks its annual October cancer campaign.
Grants Roundup: $75 Million From Mulva Fund Boosts U. of Texas Medicine
Other notable awards include $6 million from the Lilly Endowment for job programs at three historically black colleges and $5.5 million from the John A. Hartford Foundation to advance health care for seniors.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Google Parent Gives Staff Holiday Bonus to Charity
Also, San Francisco teams with tech leaders to fund a $30 million program to aid homeless families, and looming tax changes fuel a year-end burst of stock donations.
Daily News Roundup: Gun-Control Groups Find Advocates in ‘Big Law’
Also, a Chinese couple donates $115 million to Caltech to establish a neuroscience center and a look at how Judith Rodin reshaped the Rockefeller Foundation.
Grants Roundup: Group for Jewish Students Gets $48 Million
Among the three donations to Hillel International was a $38 million grant from the Marcus Foundation to recruit, train, and hold on to skilled employees for its branches at college campuses
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Facebook Pledges $20 Million for Affordable Housing in Bay Area
Tech companies have been accused of driving rents in the region to levels out of reach for many residents and nonprofits.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: German Couple Donates $127 Million Art Trove
Also, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s education chief talks to The Chronicle of Higher Education about its $45 billion aim to advance the science of learning.
Grants Roundup: $100 Million From Penn Fund Backs Philadelphia Public-Spaces Project
Plus, the Hewlett Foundation commits $50 million for river restoration in the West and the Helmsley Trust gives $25 million to study chronic inflammation.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Patagonia Black Friday Bonanza Aids Green Groups
Also, the ice bucket that started it all goes on display at a Smithsonian philanthropy exhibition, and two founders of Guess jeans ready their art collection for a new Los Angeles museum.
Daily News Roundup: Trump Taps Philanthropist Betsy DeVos for Education Dept.
Also, the president-elect says he won’t press for a renewed investigation of the Clinton Foundation and Exxon Mobil accuses Rockefeller family charities of spearheading a climate conspiracy.
Daily News Roundup: LeBron James Gives $2.5 Million for Ali Museum Exhibit
Also, a look at the uncertain future of a federal program offering major student-debt relief for graduates who put in a decade of public service after college.