2016-03-19 18:53
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced at the World Economic… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
No milestone from this past year sticks out more than the news of the world's population crossing the seven billion mark. Demographers estimate we will hit eight billion sometime in the ne… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Describing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as the world’s largest foundation is accurate but a substantial understatement. Its annual giving is more than six times larger than… Read More
2011-12-05 17:45
While Africans in general are an extremely charitable lot, Africa’s 40 richest people have yet to make a mark in global philanthropy, though are making notable efforts in their hom… Read More
2011-11-29 18:58
In 2001, only 4 percent of donors had given online. This year, about 65 percent have given to charity through the Internet.In 2001, the average donation through the site was $226. But this y… Read More
2011-11-23 23:46
Nonprofits could soon face significant cuts in government aid in the wake of Monday’s announcement of an impasse among members of a Congressional committee seeking to close the mou… Read More
2011-11-15 17:58
A summit on ‘The Future of Philanthropy and Development in the Pursuit of Well-Being’ is underway. The first day opened with a keynote panel discussion involving Jay Naidoo, glob… Read More
2011-11-03 16:43
Excerpts of a Washington Post article by Bill Gates:Fifty years ago, almost 20 million children under the age of 5 died every year. In 2010, the figure was down to 7.6 million. This 60 perce… Read More
2011-11-01 17:36
Warren Buffett has carried his philanthropy to a new extreme and, in the process, sparked a revolution in the world of giving. Through his launch of the Giving Pledge in June 2010, a joi… Read More
2011-10-27 22:03
Bill Gates is proposing to the G20 nations the concept of a financial transactions tax as a way to raise revenue and discourage financial speculation. The proceeds from a FTT could be u… Read More
2011-10-15 18:41
Giving is good for you, and scientists at Stanford University are finding out why. Following a discussion with the Dalai Lama, scientists at Stanford from fields as diverse as neuroscien… Read More
2011-10-13 22:20
Worldwide, 1.4 billion of the ultrapoor survive on less than $1.25/day. More and more, to change this sad situation, the popular strategy is investing in education and microfinance fo… Read More
2011-10-08 03:54
America’s budget crisis at home is forcing the first significant cuts in overseas aid in nearly two decades, reflecting the country’s diminishing ability to influence the wor… Read More
2011-10-05 00:07
George Soros has pledged $27.4 million to aid development in targeted villages across rural Africa. Soros also pledged up to $20 million in loans to support business projects within tho… Read More
2011-10-02 04:00
The recent Social Good Summit mounted by Mashable, 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation with support from Swedish mobile phone giant Ericsson was a chance for the most inno… Read More
2011-09-26 23:27
Scott Harrison was a New York nightclub promoter who lived to flaunt his Rolex, his super-model girlfriends, and his ability to get liquor companies to pay him $2,000 a month to drink their… Read More
2011-09-06 16:15
For decades, nonprofits looked to donors – private foundations, individual philanthropists, governments – for most of their expenses. Some suggest that some nonprofits are st… Read More
2011-08-25 16:24
Foreign aid as a development tool has been tried and found wanting. Decades of handouts from developed countries to developing countries have done little more than promote corruption amo… Read More
2011-08-23 23:38
Representatives from grantmakers across Africa joined together in Nairobi to discuss how small grants can mobilize social change. One of the resounding messages that was repeated through… Read More
2011-08-03 16:49
In the past if you were to imagine a room filled with around 100 people with a combined net worth of $50 billion, you might imagine a pretty homogeneous group of staid, white-haired olde… Read More
2011-08-01 15:58
When less than 5 percent of the world’s population live in the United States and consume more than 25 percent of the world’s resources, while roughly half the world is either… Read More
2011-06-15 16:55
Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan are the three most dangerous countries in the world for women, according to a panel of gender experts assembled by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Women liv… Read More
2011-06-09 16:55
Vaccines are considered by many to be one of the best buys for public health in developing nations because they can protect productive lives and cut the costs of health care and treatment… Read More
2011-06-07 19:02
The most pernicious problems facing nonprofits: the reflexive bias that many donors have against "overhead." "There are two kinds of overhead: good and bad," Tom Tierney and Joel Fleish… Read More
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