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The Ford Foundation has announced $4.5 million in special grants along with a program of activities to commemorate its 50th anniversary in Latin America. The foundation has three offices in Latin America, which provide support for efforts in Brazil, the Andean Region and the southern cone, and Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. In recent years, Ford has placed [...]
The past four years have seen an economic crisis coincide with a food-price spike. That must surely have boosted the number of the world’s poor (especially since food inflation hits the poor hardest)—right? Wrong. New estimates of the numbers of the world’s poor by the World Bank’s Development Research Group show that for the first [...]
The US has been rated as the world’s most charitable country in 2011 by the Charities Aid Foundation’s (CAF) World Giving Index, up from fifth in 2010. The Irish Republic came second, then Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The survey suggested more people were likely to perform charitable acts this year compared with 2010, [...]
The global 4-H network has announced a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help youth in sub-Saharan Africa create sustainable livelihoods for themselves and improve household and national food security. The grant will be used to finance efforts to build the capacity of local 4-H organizations to provide training for [...]
Stanford University’s business school has received a $150-million gift to establish an institute that will help entrepreneurs in developing countries build their businesses. The money came from Robert King, a partner at the investment firm Peninsula Capital, in Menlo Park, Calif., and his wife, Dorothy, who hope the donation will help curb poverty in the [...]
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, India’s most famous investor, has pledged to give away 25% of his wealth during his lifetime. He is the fourth Indian businessperson — after Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar and GM Rao — to make a statement of intent to give away a subs…
More than 2,000 charities across England have had their funding cut or withdrawn altogether by local councils, according to research. The study by anti-cuts website False Economy was based on over 250 Freedom of Information requests responses.The cuts …
The Harvard School of Public Health has announced a four-year, $14.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test the effectiveness of a new childbirth safety program aimed at reducing deaths and improving outcomes of mothers and infa…
The African Water Facility (AWF), an initiative of the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), is awarded a grant of US$ 12 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to finance projects to adva…
The New York City-based Rockefeller Foundation has announced the opening of a new regional office in Nairobi, Kenya.Located in Capitol Hill Square, the new office will build on the foundation’s longstanding support for innovative solutions to complex d…
