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Gates Foundation Takes On Poverty in the U.S. With $100 Million Commitment

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

city administrator, jumped at an opportunity funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study the development of a bus system to meet the town’s transportation needs. By Thalia Beaty Associated Press GRAND ISLAND, NEB. John Peterson/AP Laura McAloon, the Grand Island, Neb.,

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Gates Foundation to Increase Funding to $8.3 Billion This Year

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In his annual letter, Gates chief executive Mark Suzman wrote that the increased grants were spurred by global failures to adequately respond to the spread of infectious diseases, reduce poverty, promote gender equality, and address the effects of climate change. By Alex Daniels.

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Humanitarian-Aid Group BRAC USA Selects Next CEO

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Prest BRAC USA Julia Roberts is set to lead BRAC USA, an organization that fights global poverty. Also, the Connecticut Community Foundation has named a new leader, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation will install its next president in the fall.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared. What can philanthropy do?

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The Future of Family Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As close observers of the world of family giving, we are convinced this is an historic moment for families and the future of philanthropy as well. What makes this moment perhaps the most notable time in the history of family philanthropy is that it is a time of crucial choices—with huge potential consequences and opportunities.

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Small Firms Are Still a Big Missed Opportunity in Development Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But when we look at philanthropy in the US and Europe, the list of private foundations that have a primary focus on SME growth is extremely small, just over a dozen. Why is philanthropy still hesitant? And certainly, lifting the ultra-poor out of poverty is a noble and necessary use of philanthropic dollars. There are 3.4

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Current philanthropic work—as a leader of a prominent US-based foundation remarked at a recent Stanford PACS conference—leaves people exhausted. The Problem With Problem-Solving Solving problems to improve people’s lives has been philanthropy’s raison d’être. Can this vision be applied to philanthropy? Medicine 3.0: