Bezos to give away most of $US124 billion wealth during lifetime – CNN
Reuters Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos will give away a majority of his $US124 billion wealth during his lifetime, the billionaire told CNN in an interview on Monday. Without providing further details, Bezos said he and partner journalist-turned-philanthropist Lauren Sánchez were “building the capacity to be able to give away this money”. Amazon CEO Jeff […]
Essay: What the 100 non-profits that raised the most money in 2020 indicate about charity today
SHARIQ SIDDIQUI, DAVID CAMPBELL and MIRAE KIM, three scholars of philanthropy and non-profits, weigh in on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of the 100 non-profits that garnered the most funding through charitable donations in the US in 2020…
Only half of American households donate to charity – study
AP For the first time in nearly two decades, only half of US households donated to a charity, according to a study released Tuesday. The findings confirm a trend worrying experts: Donations to charitable causes are reaching record highs, but the giving is done by a smaller and smaller slice of the population. The study, […]
Faith groups among those granted money from US billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
RNS A number of faith-based groups were among the nearly 300 recipients of $US2.7 billion in grants announced Tuesday by billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott to organizsations addressing a range of social issues. Scott, who was formerly married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, wrote in a Medium post that she and her husband, Dan Jewett, worked with researchers, […]
Essay: Philanthropists and politicians – religion is not a problem to solve, it’s a partnership opportunity
In an article first published on Religion News Service, MICHAEL WEAR, founder of US-based Public Square Strategies, LLC, and an adviser to PACE’s Faith In/And Democracy initiative, argues for philanthropic organisations to engage in a greater way with faith-based organisations…
Most people want billionaires to pitch in to aid poverty and inequality
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Eight out of 10 people think billionaires should help end poverty, inequality and a host of global ills, a poll showed on Wednesday, as funding shortages and the new coronavirus stymied hopes of meeting the United Nations’ development goals for 2030. The ambitious plans, known as the Sustainable Development […]
Paris charity gets share of $US1 million for training refugees as museum guides
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Guinean refugee Ibrahima Conde arrived in Paris knowing little about French culture. Two years later, he knows enough to work as a museum guide, a job he was trained for by the charity Sama for All. The charity, founded in 2017, works with two of Paris’s top art galleries to train […]
ESSAY: CHURCHES ARE THE BEST SOLUTION TO GLOBAL CONFLICTS WE DON’T THINK OF
US-based World Relief’s CEO and president, TIM BREENE and SCOTT ARBEITER, in an article first published by Religion News Service, on the key role local churches play in recovery after conflict around the world…
US: HOW CHURCHES ARE WIPING OUT MILLIONS IN MEDICAL DEBTS
In an article first published by Kaiser Health News, ROXIE HAMMILL looks at how US churches are helping people pay off medical debts…
Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest makes historic $400 million donation to charity
The fight against cancer, higher education, early childhood initiatives, Indigenous Australians, and the battle to eliminate ‘modern slavery’ are among the recipients of a $400 million donation – the largest philanthropic donation ever made by a living Australian – announced by mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest and his wife Nicola today. In comments made at […]