Friday, Apr 04, 2025 06:40AM
Tate Modern is to become a space for socialising, debating and interaction as part of a £260m restructure. In decades gone by, a visit to a leading national art gallery ... FULL STORY >>
Resources: HayesDavidson
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 where individuals gather to donate money or time to a poole... 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
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
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
In Africa, as elsewhere, “traditional” giving has taken something of a bashing since the launch of the effective altruism, a.k.a. strategic giving, movement—what Kayode Samuel calls “strategic philanthropy that delive... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Washington Post
From: Nepal Earhquake Story
Rural Foundations’ Ideas for Increasing Rural Philanthropy From: nonprofitquarterly
Photography Workshop Sponsored by Her Highness Sheikha Arwa Al Qassimi From: http://www.examiner.com/
The extravagant World of WearableArt returns to Wellington From: OLIVIA WANNAN
