Philanthropy news
Philanthropy News Digest publishes daily abstracts of original articles, press releases, and grantmaker communications about grants, initiatives, reports, and personnel changes.
Hebrew SeniorLife Receives $15 Million Gift for Multi-Generational Care Community
March 19, 2005The new campus will include senior supportive housing, short-term acute care, and a K-8 school....
Brown University Receives $20 Million for Computational Molecular Biology Center
March 19, 2005The gift from an anonymous university trustee includes $16 million to endow five professorships and $4 million for student research and training programs....
Clark College Receives $4 Million for Nursing Programs
March 18, 2005The gift from the estate of Hilma Speights will enable the school in Vancouver, Washington, to enhance its existing nursing programs and add new ones....
Metropolitan Museum Acquires Gilman Photography Archive
March 18, 2005Met officials would not say how much the collection cost or how much of it was donated, but one expert said its value on the open market could exceed $100 million....
Arts-Related Businesses a Significant Employer, Study Finds
March 18, 2005The report from Americans for the Arts reveals that arts-related businesses represent 4.4 percent of all businesses and 2.2 percent of all jobs in the United States....
Boeing Awards $5 Million for Chicago Outdoor Galleries
March 17, 2005The new tree-lined, eighty-foot-wide Boeing Galleries will host outdoor sculptures year-round as well as regular exhibits during the spring and summer....
Southern California Women's Giving Circle Unique Among United Way Groups
March 17, 2005Each of the professionals who make up the Women's Philanthropy Fund of the Orange County United Way in Irvine, California, donates at least $10,000 annually to the group, which has contributed about $3 million to charity in just three years....
School Leaders Left Unprepared Due to Poor Education Programs, Study Finds
March 17, 2005The majority of the nation's education programs are doing little more than issuing higher degrees to teachers who are trying to qualify for salary increases....
Boston Medical Center Receives $6 Million for Stem Cell Research
March 16, 2005In addition to supporting translational stem cell research the gift will allow Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to focus on creating new, minimally invasive procedures for the delivery of cell therapies....
Traditional Media Increasingly Competing With New Models for News, Study Finds
March 16, 2005As traditional media continue to lose audience, news organizations will be tempted to cut back on news gathering and change standards to compete with the new models....
Nonprofits, Private Companies Adopt Sarbanes-Oxley Reforms, Study Shows
March 16, 2005Sponsored by the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP, the study found that 87 percent of private firms and nonprofits said the reforms mandated in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are having an impact on their operations, up from 77 percent in 2004....
James Irvine Foundation Announces $7.5 Million in Grants
March 15, 2005Grants awarded in this round included $1million to Pacific News Service to launch "News from the New California," a service designed to enhance ethnic media coverage of state policy issues....
New Nike Foundation Initiative Focuses on Girls in Developing Countries
March 15, 2005The foundation will support projects that combine innovation with tested models that inspire and mobilize support for increased economic and social opportunities for girls....
Nonprofit Advocates Worry That Legislation Could Affect 501(c) Organizations
March 15, 2005The bill would require that all 527s register with the Federal Election Commission as political action committees and be subject to contribution limits in federal races....
University of Wisconsin Receives $15 Million to Build Bio-Tech Research Complex
March 14, 2005Part of a university initiative to create a top-ranked facility for biomedical and technology research, the new $133.9 million Interdisciplinary Research Complex will replace outdated research facilities....
Young People Spend Increasing Amount of Time Media Multi-Tasking, Study Finds
March 14, 2005The study found that youths are managing to pack increasing amounts of media content into the same amount of time each day....
California Asian Americans Gave $200 Million to Tsunami Relief Efforts
March 14, 2005A recent multilingual poll found that 70 percent of the state's Asian Americans contributed to the relief efforts, even though only 8 percent of the respondents knew people who were directly affected by the disaster....
Barbara Denning Finberg, Early Education Pioneer, Dies
March 13, 2005Finberg's work during her thirty-eight years at the Carnegie Corporation of New York spotlighted the need for research about how babies and toddlers learn....
OSU Veterinary College Receives $21 Million Bequest
March 12, 2005The gift from the estate of Lois Bates Acheson will boost the college's endowment, providing long-term supplemental funding for teaching, research, facilities, and equipment....
Judith Rothschild Foundation Awards $260,000 to Create Interest in 'Under-Recognized' Artists
March 12, 2005Ranging from $5,000 to $20,000, the grants will support projects that bring attention to the works of recently deceased, "under-recognized" American artists....
Council on Foundations Announces Recipients of Distinguished Grantmaker, Scrivner, and Ylvisaker Awards
March 12, 2005This year's honorees are Rien van Gendt, executive director of the Van Leer Group Foundation, Nancy Latimer, senior program officer at the McKnight Foundation, and the Toronto-based Maytree Foundation....
People in the News (3/13/05): Appointments and Promotions
March 13, 2005The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector....
Massachusetts Nonprofit Sector Experiencing Job Growth, Study Finds
March 11, 2005According to a new report, Bay State nonprofits currently employ more individuals in the commonwealth than state, federal, and local government combined....
2005 Templeton Prize Recognizes Co-Inventor of the Laser
March 11, 2005The $1.5 million prize is the largest annual monetary prize awarded to an individual, in keeping with Sir John Templeton's stipulation that it always be worth more than the Nobel Prizes....
Children's Charities Open Door to Independent Inspectors
March 11, 2005Five international child-sponsorship organizations have given independent inspectors free run of their headquarters and field projects to verify that they follow an agreed-upon code of conduct....
