Category: Philanthropy

This year’s Giving Tuesday online donations totaled a record high of $511 million

How technology can amplify great teaching

Democracy failure alert: Americans’ trust of local news is on the brink

Watch this submarine play tag with a shark from the darkest depths of the ocean

The answer to helping the unbanked exists on every Main Street: the post office

Elizabeth Warren vows to reject all big donations from Big Tech

How Durham is using user-testing to design a compost system that works

This firefighter monitoring device is designed to protect first responders as wildfires spread

Lululemon is helping the UN’s humanitarian aid workers take care of themselves

We’ve officially reached peak ’90s nostalgia

Remember Wrinkles the Clown, the viral boogeyman for hire? This new documentary shows his dark side

Melinda Gates pledges $1 billion to boost the ‘power and influence’ of women in the U.S.

Here are the 5 designers and artists who just won MacArthur Genius Grants

AARP Calls Out Adland For Stereotypical Portrayals Of Older Americans

Architecture is a unexpectedly good metaphor for online privacy

Is the Gates Foundation putting toilets ahead of human rights?

Tahini Doritos! Seaweed Ruffles! This is how America snacks in 2019

‘Are you forgetting what you just said?’ Julián Castro attacks Joe Biden’s memory

What business can learn about impact from ‘catalytic philanthropy’

Google will give out $3 million in cash to victims after the next natural disaster in the U.S.

Donor-advised funds are becoming more of a charity, less of a tax haven

How legal weed companies are starting to address driving while high

People are willing to pay a fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett (for charity)

Why we can’t leave climate change to philanthropists

Sorry Lady Gaga, but this pigeon won the Met Gala

If you care about animals, should you should donate to shelters–or to stop industrial agriculture?

Bill Gates thinks these 5 agricultural hacks can help stop climate change

Donations to charity plummeted last year (except from the super rich)

Why “later” is one of the most destructive terms in philanthropy

The MacArthur Foundation is giving away another $100 million gift–and helping other make big bets

Gifts from the 50 biggest donors dropped by half in 2018

This charitable giving account is booming in popularity (and also avoiding a lot of taxes)

More transparency means nonprofits get more donations

A year of disaster relief shows how important cash is in helping to rebuild

What’s the most generous country on earth?

This gift card offers a charitable fix to holiday gifts no one wants

Plot twist: The $400,000 GoFundMe for a homeless man was all a scam

Want to make people act more generously? Try this simple mind trick

A ballet about bullets: Watch the latest moving gun control ad

Chan-Zuckerberg and Rockefeller have a $10 million plan to boost economic opportunity

Impact investing is booming–but not nearly enough to make radical change

GoFundMe says it will cover the losses for the homeless man whose funds are missing