Other awards include $10 million from the Ed Rachal Foundation to the Texas A&M Foundation to support a new music center.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Grants Roundup: JPMorgan Chase Awards $13.8 Million to Syracuse U. Veterans Institute
Other awards include $10 million from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation to support domestic and international programs at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
After Hits and Misses, Waltons Shift Strategy on Their Home Turf
The Bentonville, Ark., area boomed after the family helped remake the town, but a $52 million effort in some of the poorest regions of the Ozarks was less successful.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Walton Fund Uses Market Incentives to Encourage Better Farming Practices
The family foundation plans to spend $455 million to maintain adequate levels of clean water in the Mississippi and Colorado river basins, prevent overfishing in the oceans, and restore damage done to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Other awards include a total of nearly $11.5 million from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation to eight organizations working to make lung- and skin-cancer screening programs, care, and patient support more accessible to underserved populations.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Overcoming the Power Dynamic Between Grant Maker and Grantee
An association of small foundations shares grant makers’ views on how to build authentic relationships with grantees despite the imbalance of power that exists between those who give away money and those who rely on philanthropic gifts.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Impact Investing Might Help Nonprofits Overseas Asphyxiated by Their Governments
As governments like Russia and China cut off charitable support from the United States and elsewhere, nonprofits might benefit from donors’ growing interest in blending investments and social-good work.
By EDWIN REKOSH
Contributor
Grant Makers Seek a More Web-Savvy Nonprofit World
Members of NetGain, a partnership aimed at making the Internet work for social justice, have given more than $18 million to the cause in the past year.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Podcast: Mending a Rocky Relationship With a Major Donor
Two experts discuss how to work through disagreements and deliver bad news in this episode of Fundraising Fundamentals.
By TONY MARTIGNETTI
Contributor
Grants Roundup: $10 Million for Minority Girls, Young Women, and Transgender Youths
Other awards include a total of $5 million over three years from the biopharmaceutical company Shire to two groups working to improve the lives of children born with rare diseases.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Want Our Expertise? Pay Us, Grass-Roots Groups Say
Community organizers take a stand against requests to work for free.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Kern Family Foundation Awards $6 Million to Olin College of Engineering
Other awards include $1.5 million from the Kresge Foundation for programs at EmcArts that address complex social challenges.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
It’s Not Foundation Money but Culture and Talent That Can Change the World
Studies of social change show that transformational results depend on shared values and expectations among the people doing the work.
By SARA BRENNER and Amy Celep
Gates Fund Makes Foray Into Fighting Poverty in the U.S.
The philanthropy, which focuses most of its U.S. grants on education, is providing $3.7 million to learn what makes the most difference in promoting social mobility in America.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
The $1.6 Billion Barr Foundation Expands Its Reach
The Boston fund will now start making grants nationally to support efforts in arts, education, and climate change.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
NFL Brain-Research Funds Went to League-Linked Scientists
The NFL, which has been grappling with controversy over its handling of concussions and traumatic brain injuries suffered by players, has steered millions of dollars in grants for studies on the issue to researchers with league affiliations, according to an ESPN investigation.