Friday, Nov 01, 2024 08:33AM
A multi-millionaire who gave away his fortune to set up a cancer charity split up with his wife of 30 years after falling out over his philanthropy. Brian Burnie, a pe... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Elliot Pinkham
Amidst all the hoopla of the “resilience” of New Orleans ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation has done yeoman work to present a mor... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Facing South (Institute for Southern Studies)
Several NPQ newswires have covered the phenomenon of giving circles, including some designed to fund specific causes. Giving circles are a type of group philanthropy wher... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Baltimore Sun
It probably won’t happen at Gillette Stadium for the opening of the NFL regular season when the Patriots take on the Steelers, nor during the games this weekend. In Europe, there is a different kind of sports philanthropy g... FULL STORY >>
Resources: New York Times
Stories about foundations serving rural America don’t often make it to the front page—or anywhere else for that matter—in national and regional newspapers. People living and working in rural America, however, know what ... FULL STORY >>
Resources: nonprofitquarterly
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has never been comfortable with divestment pressures from activists. It took the slow route to finally divesting from PetroChina, which functioned as a linchpin in sustaining the governme... FULL STORY >>
Resources: The Guardian
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack addressed the 2015 National Rural Assembly, but didn’t deliver a stock speech. Choosing instead to simply answer questions, Vilsack fielded one on philanthropy—pitched, oddly, about ho... FULL STORY >>
Resources: U.S. Department of Agriculture
There is no point to dissecting Donald Trump’s speech on the deck of the U.S.S. Iowa for the nonexistent specifics of his plans for improving services for American military veterans. The host of the event was an organizatio... FULL STORY >>
Resources: CBS News
Until recently, the 32-year-old mayor of Lawrence, Kansas, was also the executive director of Just Food, a local food bank. Then, in mid-August, he resigned both positions after it was revealed that the organization had not p... FULL STORY >>
Resources: 6News (Lawrence, KS)
I was working in Beirut in 2014 when it was reported that the number of Syrian refugees coming across the border had passed the one-million mark. The toll the situation was taking on the country’s housing, employment, educa... FULL STORY >>
Resources: CNBC
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