Steve Kirsch is giving big to study existing antiviral drugs for early treatment of COVID-19 and working to enlist other donors. Such a treatment could render the disease far less destructive. So why aren’t more funders getting onboard?
Read MoreFrom protective equipment shortages to the long-term toll on families, healthcare workers are shouldering some of the heaviest burdens of the pandemic. Here’s how corporate and private funders are responding.
Read MoreFor the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the pandemic only makes the role of inequity in America's health that much clearer, and the need to address it at the state and federal level that much more urgent.
Read MoreA $55 million gift to Stanford is the latest example of a donor funding a debt-free medical education at an affluent private school. We dig into donors’ surging support around this idea and why it will likely spread to public universities, as well.
Read MoreThe Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has been a rare philanthropic champion of nursing education. Now it's shifting focus and funds to empower the profession's leaders to reshape the role of nurses in a changing health landscape.
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Most health philanthropy consists of chasing breakthrough cures and treatments. But what many ill people want is improved quality of life—which is why two funders recently launched a campaign to raise awareness of the benefits of palliative care.
Read MoreA growing number of donors large and small contribute to an organization that’s buying up medical debt on the secondary market and forgiving up to $100 of debt for every dollar it receives in contributions—a sky-high ROI.
Read MoreThe latest in Denny Sanford’s string of big gifts finds the credit card billionaire underwriting a new institute at University of California San Diego to research empathy and reshape medical training to benefit doctors and patients.
Read MoreThe U.S. will need 1.5 million new nurses by 2026 to provide care for retiring baby boomers. Despite this looming public health crisis, philanthropy has been largely tuned out. Can a recent big gift out of D.C. help change the narrative?
June Bradham fell into fundraising by accident, back when it was still a male-dominated field, but she went on to chart a stellar career that has included pioneering new research and building a successful consulting practice. How did she do it?
Read MoreThey sold their company for $1.4 billion. Now, a San Diego couple is working on three fronts—philanthropy, research and policy—to make the United States’ culture and healthcare system more friendly to seniors in an era of rapid demographic transition.
Read MoreWhile many mega-donors have a hands-on relationship with the recipient organization, billionaire corporate turnaround specialist Jay Alix’s close ties with the Mayo Clinic are unusual. We dig into the intriguing backstory leading up to his historic gift.
Houston’s philanthropic old guard, steeped in oil riches, is welcoming a new crop of funders with diverse sources of wealth and interests as the city undergoes profound demographic and economic change.
Read MoreDiagnostic errors are the most common cause of medical errors, causing an estimated 40,000 to 80,000 deaths per year. But there is little funding for research on this problem. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is looking to change that.
Read MoreThe startling ramp-up of the Kansas City-based Sunderland Foundation is further testament to the explosion of regional philanthropy. Many of these funders embrace big capital projects as they work to boost their home cities or alma maters.
Read MoreWe look at the story behind a big gift to a struggling hospital in an underserved urban neighborhood. Such donations are rare. So how did this one come about?
Read MoreIt’s not often that we see funders pooling money to create a not-for-profit generic drug company. In fact, we’ve never seen it before. Which is why the creation of Civica Rx deserves a close look.
Read MoreThe U.S. still has a major problem with access to health insurance and healthcare. But it has a far broader healthcare affordability problem. The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is on the case.
Read MoreMore campus donors are keen to cover tuition costs and free graduates from decades of debt. This can make for great copy, as a big recent gift to NYU’s medical school showed. But is it the most effective use of philanthropic dollars?
Read MoreDespite a fast-aging population and growing strains on healthcare entitlements, only a limited number of funders are looking at ways our society can better manage how people die. Still, some money is flowing.
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