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Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter says housing discrimination is rearing its ugly head again: ‘We may end up right back where we were in the ’50s’

Bernice King says the attacks on what the Trump administration calls DEI look familiar.

10.04.2025 4

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

Judge bars Trump administration from shutting down federal African development agency

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon in Washington issued the order hours after the filing of a lawsuit by the president and CEO of the U.S. African...

07.03.2025 10

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

The MacArthur Foundation will increase giving by $150 million over the next two years after Trump pulled the plug on foreign aid: ‘This is a major crisis for our sector’

"The cliff of funding from federal programs has sent budgets underwater in field after field," said MacArthur Foundation President John Palfrey.

28.02.2025 10

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

MacArthur Foundation will increase giving for 2 years in response to ‘crisis’ caused by Trump freeze on foreign aid

The Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation is best known for its “genius” fellowship, which recognizes extraordinary people who work across...

27.02.2025 10

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

MacKenzie Scott’s game-changing philanthropy still mystifies nonprofits: ‘Her gifts are super generous, but unfortunately, they don’t provide long term sustainability’

"What they are saying with trust-based philanthropy is to offer support beyond a check," Indiana University's Pamela Wiepking says, "and that’s...

30.12.2024 10

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

Americans donated $3.6 billion on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, which has become a holiday in its own right

That's more than the last two years, despite so much uncertainty around the economy.

05.12.2024 3

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

GivingTuesday estimates $3.6 billion was donated to nonprofits this year, up $500 million from 2023

GivingTuesday has become a major day for nonprofits to fundraise since the 92nd St Y in New York started it as a hashtag in 2012.

05.12.2024 10

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

Treasury Department may soon be able to strip tax-exempt status from nonprofits it claims support terrorism, worrying civil liberties groups

The proposal has drawn concern from nonprofits who say it could be used to target groups, including media, universities, and civil society groups,...

22.11.2024 10

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

OpenAI may have exceeded the limits of its split corporate structure, experts say

The artificial intelligence company may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded...

12.10.2024 3

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

Melinda French Gates is taking a page out of Mackenzie Scott’s playbook, launching an open call for $250 million in funding

The initiative will give at least 100 nonprofit organizations around the world between $1 million and $5 million in unrestricted funding.

09.10.2024 10

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

Meet the 2024 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ recipients

The 22 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend however they want.

01.10.2024 2

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

SF writer among 2024 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ fellows

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Tuesday its 2024 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant." The...

01.10.2024 4

SFGate

Thalia Beaty

Bill Gates calls for more Africa aid from rich countries as Ukraine war overshadows debt relief, vaccines and malnutrition

The Microsoft founder said: “There’s less money going to Africa at a time when they need it.”

17.09.2024 3

Fortune

Thalia Beaty

Michael Bloomberg’s charity is giving $600 million to endowments of 4 historically Black medical schools

Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared with white Americans, and experts believe increasing the representation among doctors is...

06.08.2024 1

Fortune

Thalia Beaty