As giving receded to pre-pandemic levels, most of these gifts were designated for foundations, higher education, hospitals and medical research.
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More than 350 billionaires have signed on so far.
Three scholars weigh in regarding the priorities of these wealthy American donors, who gave less to social service and racial justice groups than in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The investor has already given much of his fortune to charity and has pledged to donate nearly all of the rest.
Winners of a new gender-equity contest do an array of work that includes helping caregivers and trying to reduce intimate-partner violence.
Our preoccupation with the personal relationships of big donors is overshadowing charitable efforts.
Women’s philanthropy, which has always been very important, has remained invisible for a long time. There are many reasons for this paradox.
A political scientist warns that a new lobbying initiative launched by Bill and Melinda Gates could harm US higher education.
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy, Grand Valley State University
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Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
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Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Docteure en sciences sociales, Chercheuse à la Chaire Philanthropie de l'ESSEC, spécialiste de la philanthropie, de la sociologie du transnational, des politiques culturelles, ESSEC
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Director, Centre for Philanthropy, University of Kent
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Interim Director of the Women's Philanthropy Institute, Indiana University
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Bob and Carol Mattocks Distinguished Professor in Nonprofit Leadership, North Carolina State University
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Research Associate of Philanthropy, Women's Philanthropy Institute; Doctoral student of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Distinguished Professor of Finance, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Donald A. Campbell Chair in Fundraising Leadership, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University