Social-Media Reactions to the Ford Foundation’s New Focus on Inequality
The nonprofit world was quick to react to the foundation’s announcement that it would shift its grant making to focus entirely on financial, racial, gender, and other inequities.
By Nidhi Singh and CODY SWITZER
Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality
America’s second biggest grant maker will also double the share of grants it gives for operating support.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Detroit Looks to Draw More Foundations Into City’s Revival
The Detroit News profiles Ryan Friedrichs, the city’s newly installed chief development officer, and his work to keep philanthropic aid coming in the wake of the foundation-driven “grand bargain” that helped lift Detroit out of insolvency.
Grants Roundup: Wounded Warrior Project Awards $15.7 Million for Veterans Treatment at UCLA
Other awards include $10 million from the Nationwide Foundation supporting pediatrics genomic research.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
In Ferguson, a Gift to Heal Divisions
A pair of anonymous donors gave $100,000 to the St. Louis Community Foundation with one goal: to let a diverse group of community members decide together how it should be used.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Gifts Roundup: $400 Million to Harvard University for Engineering School
Also included is a $23 million gift to the Higley Fund, a donor-advised fund at the Cleveland Foundation.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
U.S.-Cuba Thaw Is Making American Nonprofit Work on the Island Nation Easier
The easing of travel restrictions is amplifying interest in the country’s culture and health-care system and eliminating some hurdles for charities and foundations.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Duke Endowment Awards $15.3 Million for Health Research
Other awards include $2 million in grants to Detroit organizations from the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
10 Families Join the ‘Giving Pledge’
The newest members include the founder of Chobani yogurt, a co-founder of Groupon, and a former Berkshire Hathaway executive.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
In 2nd ‘Gilded Age,’ Billionaires Are Giving With Legacies in Mind
The superwealthy want to see “tangible and measurable results” of their giving, according to a report by UBS and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Explore Foundation Assets and Giving
A Chronicle study of giving among the 50 largest foundations finds that grants paid jumped 8.2 percent from 2013 to 2014.
Foundations Join Forces to Fight Inequality
Dozens of America’s biggest grant makers are attacking the problem on several fronts. But will they really make a difference?
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Forecast for Major Funds: Increased Giving in 2015
Assets at the nation’s largest 31 foundations topped $148.7 billion last year as grant makers steered more than $7.8 billion toward nonprofits, according to a new Chronicle survey.
By Alex Daniels and Lance Lambert
Feeling Flush, Hewlett Boosts Giving 80%
The foundation is channeling more money to nonprofits whose grants it had to trim during the financial crisis.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Gifts Roundup: $20 Million Donation to Dartmouth College for Math Education
Also included is a contribution of 1,000 acres of land in celebration of David Rockefeller Sr.’s 100th birthday.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Science-Education Nonprofit Adopts Venture-Capital Approach
100kin10 launches its fellowship program, bringing grant seekers together to hone their ideas before they submit applications.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor