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Americans donated $3.6 billion on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, which has become a holiday in its own right

That's more than the last two years, despite so much uncertainty around the economy.

05.12.2024 5

Fortune

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GivingTuesday estimates $3.6 billion was donated to nonprofits this year, up $500 million from 2023

GivingTuesday has become a major day for nonprofits to fundraise since the 92nd St Y in New York started it as a hashtag in 2012.

05.12.2024 20

Fortune

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Treasury Department may soon be able to strip tax-exempt status from nonprofits it claims support terrorism, worrying civil liberties groups

The proposal has drawn concern from nonprofits who say it could be used to target groups, including media, universities, and civil society groups,...

22.11.2024 20

Fortune

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OpenAI may have exceeded the limits of its split corporate structure, experts say

The artificial intelligence company may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded...

12.10.2024 6

Fortune

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Melinda French Gates is taking a page out of Mackenzie Scott’s playbook, launching an open call for $250 million in funding

The initiative will give at least 100 nonprofit organizations around the world between $1 million and $5 million in unrestricted funding.

09.10.2024 20

Fortune

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Meet the 2024 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ recipients

The 22 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend however they want.

01.10.2024 5

Fortune

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SF writer among 2024 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ fellows

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Tuesday its 2024 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant." The...

01.10.2024 8

SFGate

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Bill Gates calls for more Africa aid from rich countries as Ukraine war overshadows debt relief, vaccines and malnutrition

The Microsoft founder said: “There’s less money going to Africa at a time when they need it.”

17.09.2024 10

Fortune

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Michael Bloomberg’s charity is giving $600 million to endowments of 4 historically Black medical schools

Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared with white Americans, and experts believe increasing the representation among doctors is...

06.08.2024 9

Fortune

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Melinda French Gates's $1bn commitment to groups helping women and families breaks long lament that less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes there

French Gates has been a philanthropist for decades, as a co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 20 years ago and then, with the...

30.05.2024 20

Fortune

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Melinda French Gates is leaving the Gates Foundation 3 years after her divorce

“This is not a decision I came to lightly,” French Gates posted on the X platform on Monday.

13.05.2024 20

Fortune

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Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson donate more than $10m they pledged for Maui wildfire survivors

The Entertainment Industry Foundation, a longtime nonprofit that helps celebrities administer charitable work and that managed the distribution of the...

23.04.2024 20

Fortune

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MacKenzie Scott’s game-changing philanthropy still mystifies nonprofits: ‘Her gifts are super generous, but unfortunately, they don’t provide long term sustainability’

"What they are saying with trust-based philanthropy is to offer support beyond a check," Indiana University's Pamela Wiepking says, "and that’s...

04.04.2024 10

Fortune

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MacKenzie Scott continues post-divorce giving with another $640 million doled out to orgs that responded to an open call

Scott raised the size of her charitable gift and donated to 361 organizations instead of 250.

19.03.2024 10

Fortune

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Ford family will raise at least $10M to set up permanent endowments for 10 Detroit nonprofits

The Children's Foundation will manage the nonprofits’ endowments and offer them guidance and technical support over two years.

19.03.2024 5

Fortune

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Outgoing philanthropy exec says this era is like the 1920s, when 'A lot of people became fascists, and a lot of people became communists'

Larry Kramer, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is leaving the organization for the London School of Economics.

20.12.2023 10

Fortune

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $100 million to expand economic mobility work because too many people are stuck in their careers

The Gates Foundation is far from alone in this field, which has other large funders including philanthropist MacKenzie Scott and Blue Meridian...

07.12.2023 10

Fortune

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George Soros' foundation will spend $50 million on increasing Gen Z, female civic engagement

Alex Soros, the billionaire investor's son now running the Open Society Foundations, said philanthropic support is sorely needed for women and young...

06.12.2023 10

Fortune

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