In a rare example of high-level cultural philanthropy from Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial elite, Jerry Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, have pledged $25 million toward a $90-million transformation project of the Asian Art...
These days, to achieve maximum buzz, a policy idea needs the right combination of utopian promise and real-world possibility. You can make the argument that universal basic income has recently offered the headiest brew of that mix, for both the...
Around the world, hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, and many countries are neglecting to even measure their progress, the World Bank warned in its flagship annual economic development...
Seventy-three percent of charitable donors in the word are women age 37 or older, and nearly 60 percent of them prefer to give online. Ninety-three percent of them live in primarily wealthy, developed countries.
In response to the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Irma, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has announced emergency grant funding to support relief efforts in Florida.
The Trump Administration's decision to end DACA has created a lot of anger and pushback, including from some prominent corporate leaders. But what are foundations doing to protect undocumented young people from deportation and save DACA, the fate of...