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From the rubble, literally, of the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010, plans to build the first professional soccer stadium in the country are taking shape. The appropriately named Phoenix Stadium is set to rise in Cité Soleil, an area designated by the United Nations as a red zone — an impoverished town in [...]
Washington University in St. Louis has announced an $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to identify new ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent malnutrition in infants and children. Through the Breast Milk, Gut Microbiome and Immunity Project, an international team of scientists led by Jeffrey I. Gordon, the Dr. Robert J. [...]
Major-college athletics departments increased the amount of money they generate by nearly $190 million in 2011, but they increased their spending by more than $267 million, a USA TODAY Sports analysis finds. In addition, only 22 out of 227 public schools in NCAA Division I generate enough money to pay for athletics. And the gap [...]
The Marcus Foundation has awarded a $20 million grant to Piedmont Heart Institute to establish the nation’s first heart valve reference center. The Marcus Heart Valve Center at Piedmont Hospital will provide a single resource for patients with congenital or acquired heart valve problems. It also will be a resource for physicians to learn about [...]
Nonprofits are making greater use of social media, with Facebook reaching “saturation levels,” a new report says. Ninety-eight percent of over 3,500 nonprofits responding to an email survey used Facebook in 2012, with 8,317 members on average, up 30 percent from a year earlier, says the 4th Annual Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report from NTEN, [...]
Software mogul Jeffrey Henley has donated $50-million to the University of California, Santa Barbara, primarily to support its work on energy efficiency, says the Los Angeles Times. The gift from the Oracle chairman and his wife, Judy, announced on Saturday, is the largest in the Southern California campus’s history. Half the money will help finance [...]
Community foundations’ assets and grant making are slowly recovering from the recession, according to a new study of financial trends at U.S. community foundations. But new donations aren’t very strong, and that could cause grant making to slow in the future. Community funds, which raise money and distribute it in one geographic region, increased their [...]
Last year was another difficult one for Washington area nonprofits as many took in fewer dollars and had to eat more into their rainy-day reserves, but according to a new study, there’s reason to believe the tides may start to turn in 2012. According to a canvas of community organizations in the region, nearly half [...]
The University of Miami’s Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute has announced a $10 million grant from the New York City-based Starr Foundation to broaden the scope of the institute’s preclinical and clinical research. The grant will support ISCI in accelerating its pipeline of translational research and programs for a wide array of debilitating conditions, including cardiac [...]
Patrick F. Cadigan, a 1957 graduate of Boston College, has donated $15 million to the university, and $12 million to the affiliated BC High. According to a Boston College news release, Cadigan’s gift to the high school is the largest in the school’s history, and the largest ever received by a Catholic secondary school in [...]
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