The 76-year-old Gates Family Foundation serves the state of Colorado using a leadership structure that blends community governance with family interests. The latest example is a $100 million medical research gift.
Read MoreNeurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's have long resisted treatment, but new technologies show a path forward. Phil and Penny Knight's $75 million gift to Stanford will fund new campus-wide research.
Read MoreAre smartphones and social media contributing to the youth mental health crisis? The Winston Family Foundation’s new center at UNC-Chapel Hill is conducting research on the poorly understood impacts of technology use.
Read MoreFor former teacher Annie Jacob, K-12 philanthropy is close to the heart. She and her husband Ryan Jacob have been big donors to groups that support children and people with disabilities, reflecting their values and experiences.
Read MoreA $24 million donation from a major funder of neuroscience has established the new K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics at MIT to develop next-gen synthetic limbs and other solutions for serious disabilities.
Read MoreEli Broad, who died last week, was a larger-than-life philanthropist. He tapped his fortune to bankroll ambitious initiatives in education, the arts and science. His turbo-charged giving offers both inspiration and cautionary lessons.
Read MoreIn 2009, Richard Rainwater was diagnosed with a rare neurodegenerative disease, part of a group of disorders called tauopathies. Rainwater passed away in 2015, but his foundation continues to be a major supporter of related research.
Read MoreA $15 million gift is a reminder that giving for medical research is nearly always entwined with deeply human backstories about disease and suffering—ordeals that can reveal the limits of modern medicine and spur donors to action.
Read MoreJust a few months old, the Adira Foundation seeks to help people with neurodegenerative diseases by developing a holistic understanding of their needs. Funding is guided by extensive input from people with direct experience.
Read MoreAligning Science Across Parkinson's, a research initiative backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, recently announced its first round of grants. The effort aims to link up different threads of research and funding in the field.
Read MoreThe Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is the nation's top non-governmental funder of mental health research, often providing seed funding that leads to grants from the public sector. More funders should take up this overlooked cause.
Read MoreLisa Yang and Hock Tan have been active in autism funding for years. Their latest donation to MIT aims to find treatments based on cutting-edge molecular neuroscience and genetics.
Read MoreThe Edward Jones company, a financial services firm serving millions of individual investors, has made a second $25 million commitment to the Alzheimer's Association. The firm was motivated by experiences and concerns among its clients.
Read MoreFor years, Charles Schwab has been the leading funder of work on dyslexia. Now, he’s upping his giving to boost multidisciplinary study of neurological issues at a time when science has more tools than ever to study the brain.
Read MoreGenny and Matt Jessee lost their daughter before her fourth birthday to an undiagnosed neurological condition. Since then, they’ve plunged into the world of philanthropy, learning how to raise money, make grants, and build programs.
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 MorePsychedelics have reentered the mainstream conversation thanks to Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind.” But there are still very few foundations that focus in this area. We get the inside story of how one philanthropist came to back psilocybin research and related causes.
Read MoreThe Gilbert Family Foundation, a leader in research funding for the incurable disease Neurofibromatosis type 1, has upped its game. Not content to just treat symptoms, the funder recently announced a three-year, $12 million initiative to find a cure.
Read MoreNeurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s afflict millions of people worldwide, with growing human and financial costs. As a new year begins, we look at some of philanthropy’s current efforts to move the needle on research and treatment.
Read MoreThere’s a lot going on with Alzheimer’s research these days. In the latest sign of growing action, a Silicon Valley philanthropist is teaming up the Alzheimer’s Association to move millions in grants to boost the search for desperately needed therapies.
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