New Online Site to Function as a ‘Yelp’ for Grant Makers
GrantAdvisors will provide a forum for those in the grant community to share their experiences working with various foundations.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Knight Foundation Sows Success — and Confusion, Study Says
Innovative grant-making approach benefits overlooked social-change groups, but organization comes up short on diversity and explicit goals.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grants Roundup: $20 Million for Transgender Issues, $4.2 Million for Senior Care
Other recent grants include $2 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Texas at Austin and $1.5 million from the Teagle Foundation to several universities.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
$45 Billion Zuckerberg-Chan Pledge Has Charities Excited — and Wary
Grant-seeking nonprofits say the unusual legal structure of the philanthropic effort may offer benefits like those enjoyed by businesses, but some worry about the Facebook co-founder’s priorities.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Grants Roundup: U. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Gets $75 Million
Other awards include $4 million from the Wyss Foundation to the Andes Amazon Fund to support the protection of the headwaters of the Amazon River in Peru.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Smart Strategies for Seeking Grants From Small Private Foundations
A report by Foundation Source offers tips, tactics, and strategies for building relationships with family foundations to win grants.
By Margie Fleming Glennon
Chief Content Officer
Silicon Valley Flexes Its Muscles — Again
The announcement by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, that they will dedicate nearly all of their Facebook stock to doing good marks another milestone in the rise of technology titans as major forces in philanthropy.
Mental-Health Groups Miss Opportunities to Build Support
Overreliance on the same crop of donors and timidity after public tragedies hamper fundraising, says a new study.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Family Fund Awards $11 Million for Veterinary Medicine
Other awards are going the U.S. Air Force Academy Endowment and to services for immigrant, refugee, and asylum populations.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia
The grant maker is spending down the fortune of its founder. Monday’s gift will go to the University of California at San Francisco and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Sleep-Health Company Awards $5 Million to UC-San Diego
Other awards include $3 million from the Colorado Trust for an endowed chair in American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Ford Foundation Spells Out Cuts to Make Way for Its Shift in Focus to Inequality
President Darren Walker says LGBT rights in the United States, direct cash transfers in Latin America, and microfinance will be among the areas where the foundation will pull back.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grants Roundup: USA Funds Awards $4.6 Million to University of Hawaii for Work-Force Development
Other awards include $2.5 million from the Cleveland Foundation for organizations supporting youth development.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Foundation Support for L.A. Times Education Project Raises Questions
A new local-education reporting project started by The Los Angeles Times is being paid for in part by nonprofits that support charter schools and privatization efforts that teachers unions oppose, The Washington Post reports.
Ford’s President Highlights Government’s Role in Reducing Inequality
Answering questions from Chronicle readers during a Facebook chat, Darren Walker discussed what’s ahead as the grant maker puts all of its energy into curbing inequities.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
$20-Million Grant Supports Cancer-Research Projects
The grant, from the Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research to the Bridge Project, aims to push more research projects into clinical trials, reports Stat, a new publication from Boston Globe Media Partners.