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Duke University has announced a five-year, $6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new initiative designed to broaden the role of humanities in its undergraduate curriculum. Building on the university’s existing humanties laboratory model, the initiative, Humanities Writ Large, will provide more experiential learning in and outside the classroom to help spark collaboration among undergraduates, graduate students, and fa…
The Robert R. McCormick Foundation Board of Directors has approved nearly $5 million in grants over two years to 17 organizations as part of its goal to help build a system of quality early care and education for children ages birth through eight in Illinois. The approved grants address public policy issues, such as adequate funding and quality standards for early education, and issues supporting a quality infrastructure, including principal pre…
The African Water Facility (AWF), an initiative of the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), is awarded a grant of US$ 12 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to finance projects to advance water and sanitation services across Africa. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced this grant at the AfricaSan 3 conference in Rwanda as part of more than $40 million in new investm…
The Walton Family Foundation announced today that it is investing $49.5 million over three years in the national nonprofit Teach For America. Roughly half of the investment will support Teach For America’s national effort to double the size of its teaching corps, as well as support its network of alumni leaders in education. The other half will support ongoing training and professional development for more than 5,000 first- and second-year teach…
Two of the richest men on Earth want to convince India’s rich to share their wealth with society. Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates, and legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Chief Executive Warren Buffett, will meet with Indian business leaders in New Delhi on Thursday to discuss philanthropy. This week, the billionaire duo hope to use their persuasion tactics over India’s wealthy. “It’s not a bad idea…to get people thinking,” says …
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $19.9-million to the BBC World Service Trust, the charity arm of the British broadcaster, The Seattle Times and the Puget Sound Business Journal report. The five-year grant, awarded in December but not announced until Wednesday, is designed to create a “multichannel communications strategy” to promote healthier practices among families in India’s poor Bihar region, said Chris Williams, a founda…
Seven days after the devastating earthquake and tsunamis in Japan, American donors have contributed more than $105-million for relief efforts, according to a Chronicle tally. Nearly three-quarters of the total has been raised by one organization, the American Red Cross. The rate of donations is slower than after last year’s earthquake in Haiti and after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. Seven days after the disaster in Haiti, donors had contributed more…
The Moody Foundation has donated $20 million toward the expansion and renovation of Moody Coliseum on the Southern Methodist University campus, SMU officials announced today. The donation toward the overall $40 million fund-raising goal will help fund improvements including broader concourses, video boards and sound systems, state-of-the-art locker rooms, premium seating, a club lounge renovation and other upgrades, SMU president Gerald Turner t…
African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to engage with and learn about social issues and causes through social media than their white counterparts, a new study from Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication and Ogilvy Public Relations finds. Based on a 2010 survey of two thousand Americans age 18 and over, the study found that 30 percent of African Americans and 39 percent of Hispanics feel they are more likely…
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research has announced a $50 million challenge grant from the Brin Wojcicki Foundation in support of its efforts to reshape drug development for Parkinson’s disease. If the challenge, which will match all new or increased gifts to MJFF on a one-to-one basis through the end of 2012, is met, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, who co-founded the biotechnology company …
