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June 28th, 2010
Categories: Tips on giving, Uncategorized
A New York Times columnist ponders how much someone should give to their religious organization. Click here to read his views.
Oprah’s Angel Network ending work
June 28th, 2010
Categories: Uncategorized
After giving away more than $80 million to charities, Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network is shuttering its doors.
Foundations pledge $45 million matching gift
June 28th, 2010
Categories: Uncategorized
Some of the country’s biggest foundations have pledged $45 million in matching gift money to support the Social Innovation Fund. Read more here.
The fundamental importance of art — and of supporting it
June 28th, 2010
Categories: Art
Journalist Maria Shriver writes about the importance of art — and the importance of supporting art. Click here to read her views.
Two-week public art project
June 18th, 2010
Categories: Art
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, stands by as Jaela Cheeks-Lomax, 16, left, Samantha Bogle, 16, foreground second from right, and Alexander Long, 18, at the piano, perform during a press conference announcing the public art project ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’, Thursday June 17, 2010 at Gantry Plaza State Park in the Queens borough of New York. The two week project, which will feature sixty public pianos in locations throughout the five boroughs, is scheduled to kick off June 21 at the one-day citywide Make Music New York festival
United Arts Council starts multicultural grants
June 18th, 2010
Categories: Art
The United Arts Council will offer a new grant program focused on funding multicultural initiatives involving the area’s African-American, Asian-American, Latino or American Indian populations. Read more.
Philanthropy in the form of a fat cash prize
June 18th, 2010
Categories: Creative giving
Not long ago, a wealthy philanthropist would be content with having a building named after him or her, or simply donating to medical research. But in the last decade, more of the wealthy have been creating prizes in hopes of drawing attention to a particular cause. It doesn’t hurt that their names are on the prizes.
Tough times for givers and receivers
June 18th, 2010
Categories: Recession
Grant making by foundations plunged last year, dropping an estimated 8.4 percent to $42.9 billion as the economic downturn hit even those wealthy institutions.
Pint-sized philanthropists making waves
June 18th, 2010
Categories: Uncategorized
“This is a giving generation — and we’re seeing it as young as kindergarten.”
Charitable giving falls 3.6 percent; recesssion blamed
June 18th, 2010
Categories: Recession
Charitable giving fell by 3.6 percent last year as Americans continued to struggle with the recession.
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