On the heels of Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation, activists are pivoting to hot-button issues like dismantling DEI programs. Major donors have played a key role, and will likely continue to do so.
Read MoreThe Susan Crown Exchange and Pivotal Ventures are founding donors of the new Center for Digital Thriving, which centers youth experiences in an effort to understand positive and negative impacts of technology.
Read MoreAffluent donors have threatened to withhold support to protest school administrators’ responses to the Israel-Hamas war, among other related issues. We dig into its potential implications for the field.
Read MoreWhile they have a penchant for higher ed mega-gifts, billionaire businessmen Ronnie and Gerald Chan keep things fairly low key with their Morningside Foundation. Here’s a look at the family’s backstory and the brothers’ priorities.
Read MoreThe billionaire’s mega-gift to Harvard isn’t his first such commitment, and it’s one of an endless array of higher ed naming gifts. The practice may be ubiquitous, but that’s all the more reason it should be questioned.
Read MoreA new initiative is calling on alumni to withhold donations until their alma maters eliminate legacy preferences. An array of demographic and financial factors will affect how institutions respond to that call in the years ahead.
Read MoreThrough the Harbus Foundation, Harvard Business School students have been giving back to the local community since 1997. Here’s how grants are made and what kinds of nonprofits get funded.
Read MoreHarvard will now prohibit the solicitation of gifts from donors who have family members applying for admission. Yet the school continues to grant legacy preferences to children of alumni, a practice that critics say perpetuates inequality.
Read MoreQuestions abound over philanthropy’s role in social movements, especially in a time of mass mobilization. Harvard Kennedy School students produced a podcast asking leaders and critics how the sector can better support social change.
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