Friday, Mar 07, 2025 03:13AM
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 Eur... 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 l... 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, wh... 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
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
Lily Thapa founder of Global Fund for Women grantee partner Women for Human Rights, pictured in Ghorka, Nepal, where she has established temporary shelters and relief for women at the Ghorka Museum camp. On April 25, a 7.8... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Nepal Earhquake Story
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the King Baudouin Foundation, and Foundation Center have announced the launch of Equal Footing, a free data portal highlighting philanthropic resources for economic development in Central Africa. ... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Rebecca Koenig
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú thinks he may have an answer to the current humanitarian crisis of tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Africa sweeping into Europe. Speaking last week at the Mexico Si... FULL STORY >>
Resources: The Forbes
This September 11, the country will mourn the 14th anniversary of the attacks that changed our world forever. But if you want to honor the victims, survivors and their families of the 9/11 attacks, volunteer. Because of th... FULL STORY >>
Resources: The Forbes
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Five months post-quake, what’s next for Nepal 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/
