Another huge campus gift for artificial intelligence research leaves us wondering: Can donors concerned about the ethical, social and humanitarian consequences of the AI revolution keep pace with rapid technological change and the forces of private enterprise?
Read MoreMicron Technology typically isn’t mentioned in the same breath as Google, Microsoft, or Intel, but when it comes to boosting gender parity and diversity in the STEM field, its giving arm punches well above its weight.
Read MoreA big donation to Brown University combines three donor priorities that are currently shaping the higher ed giving space: support for capital projects, funding for the liberal arts, and eliminating student loans and debt.
Read MoreThe Abney Foundation is another funder chipping away at the tuition crisis through scholarship awards. We take a closer look at its local grantmaking in South Carolina, and how it aligns with the founder’s original youth-centric mission.
Read MoreA fundraising arms race is under way as top universities build state-of-the-art facilities to attract high-caliber students and faculty. We look at what’s behind the trend and dig into a big recent gift to Carnegie Mellon to construct a new hall for its College of Engineering.
Read MoreRonda Stryker and William Johnston’s $30 million gift to Spelman College is the largest gift to a historically black college in 30 years. Why is it so hard for these schools to raise big money even as many higher donors profess an interest in equity?
Read MoreAs Ivy League universities work to recruit more low- to middle-income students, the Perelman family's $65 million gift to Princeton raises familiar questions around the best way for higher ed donors to boost economic mobility.
Read MoreFundraising experts have long called for an end to capital campaigns and the pressure they cause for fundraisers and their institutions. Macalester College is an example of a school charting a new path. How’s that working out?
Read MorePrivate companies, lobbying groups, and executives have recently severed financial ties with the Saudi government. The same can’t be said for American universities, which have received million in Saudi gifts.
Read MoreA common theme of Len Blavatnik’s giving is an eagerness to support promising areas of medical research. Still, his biggest gift yet—$200 million to Harvard Medical School—has raised the usual questions about big philanthropy.
Read MoreThe Charles E. Kaufman Foundation, housed at the Pittsburgh Foundation, is investing in campus-based efforts to support young researchers and to stimulate collaboration across disciplines. Where’s the money heading?
Read MoreOhio helped swing the 2016 election to Donald Trump, and the GOP controls both the governorship and state legislature there. But the Gordon Gund Foundation keeps working against the tide to advance a progressive agenda.
Read MoreLumina has set an ambitious goal to increase the proportion of adults with post-secondary degrees and certifications to 60 percent by 2025. That number hovered around 47 percent as recently as 2016. Here’s the latest effort to move the needle.
Read MoreWhile donors have made it a point to prepare law students for an increasingly interconnected world, a recent gift from the “Godfather of the Airline Industry” focuses on Asia, which will remain the fastest-growing region in the world through 2030.
Read MoreWith tuition rising, donors are stepping up efforts to reduce student loan debt. Some also have an eye on changing demographics that threaten their alma maters, with the pool of college-bound young people set to shrink in coming decades.
Read MoreWith a $17 million gift to the University of Houston to help foster kids complete degrees, a Texas couple joins the small but growing number of givers intent on assisting youth in the face of multiple challenges.
Read MorePrivate equity star Jean-Pierre Conte is the son of immigrants from France and Cuba. We talk with him about what motivates his growing giving, including support for first generation college students.
Read MoreLast year’s violence in Charlottesville, VA triggered some major donations at the time. More recently, Bank of America gave $1 million to UVA’s education school to promote tolerance in youth. Other donors have also stepped forward.
Read MoreUndocumented students often face all the same challenges as other first-generation kids on campus. But they also live in growing fear. A group of California foundations is stepping forward to support them.
Read MoreA $25 million gift earmarked for a public health school finds a Giving Pledge signee with a decades-long track record of Florida-based philanthropy turning his attention 3,000 miles west, to San Diego. What’s that about?
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