OVERVIEW: The Alchemy Foundation supports global organizations involved in human and immigrants' rights. In Boston, it makes grants for health, housing, arts and education. IP TAKE: The Alchemy Foundation maintains a low public profile and does not … [Read more...] about Alchemy Foundation
Global Health
Remembering Dikembe Mutombo’s Global Philanthropy
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Targets Lead Poisoning in the First of Its New “Big Bets”
Effective Altruism Needs a Gender Lens
Basic Data, Big Impact: Why Bloomberg’s Doubling Down on Tracking Global Births and Deaths
In the near decade since Bloomberg Philanthropies launched its 2015 Data for Health Initiative, it has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help governments in 31 countries track a few basic pieces of information: births and deaths. Why is … [Read more...] about Basic Data, Big Impact: Why Bloomberg’s Doubling Down on Tracking Global Births and Deaths
Naveen and Anu Jain Foundation: Grants for Washington
OVERVIEW: The Naveen and Anu Jain Family Foundation makes grants for global development causes as well as some local issues in Washington, where the family resides. IP TAKE: The Naveen and Anu Jain Family Foundation foundation lacks transparency, … [Read more...] about Naveen and Anu Jain Foundation: Grants for Washington
Satya and Rao Remala Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Satya and Rao Remala Foundation gives across a broad range of interest areas including health, education, women’s causes, economic and community development. Giving prioritizes Washington, but also goes to national and international … [Read more...] about Satya and Rao Remala Foundation
Creag Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Creag Foundation supports the efforts of small nonprofits that innovate in areas of human services, global development, health, environment, economic opportunity and more. IP TAKE: The Creag Foundation makes modest grants to smaller, … [Read more...] about Creag Foundation
As Funding Dwindles, HIV and AIDS Remain as Much an Issue of Human Rights as of Health
AIDS may have dropped off the front pages in recent years, but it remains a serious health threat for millions around the world — including in the U.S. Unfortunately, philanthropic giving for HIV and AIDS has been trending down for years: The latest … [Read more...] about As Funding Dwindles, HIV and AIDS Remain as Much an Issue of Human Rights as of Health
How One Corporate Foundation Is Backing Maternal Health in the U.S. and Abroad
Carla Willis recalls the grief that hit her full-on during her first meeting as a member of Georgia’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee in 2021. “I was so grateful that it was virtual because I had to turn my camera off. And I was literally sobbing … [Read more...] about How One Corporate Foundation Is Backing Maternal Health in the U.S. and Abroad
The WHO Foundation: Applying a “Start-up Mentality” to the Challenges of Global Health
Five Questions for Lim Seok Hui, CEO of the Philanthropy Asia Alliance
The Asia Pacific region is known as an economic powerhouse, anchored by stable growth that has transformed the prospects of hundreds of millions of people. At the same time, significant work lies ahead to mitigate urgent threats to its upward … [Read more...] about Five Questions for Lim Seok Hui, CEO of the Philanthropy Asia Alliance
This New Global Funder Is All About Proximate, On-the-Ground Giving in Africa
Local development has become a hot topic lately as U.S. funders come around to the idea that lasting change requires proximate leadership, and that problems from education to climate action are best solved by the people who live with them every day. … [Read more...] about This New Global Funder Is All About Proximate, On-the-Ground Giving in Africa
Melinda French Gates Charts a Course for a “New Chapter.” Here Are Some Takeaways
It didn’t take her long. Just two weeks after the news broke that Melinda French Gates was leaving the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she made another big announcement: She is committing $1 billion through 2026 “for people and organizations working … [Read more...] about Melinda French Gates Charts a Course for a “New Chapter.” Here Are Some Takeaways
A Global Relief Organization Keeps the Spigot Open for Community Healthcare Providers Closer to Home
Direct Relief’s name encapsulates its mission in clear, unflashy language, which matches its approach. The organization aims to provide assistance, including medicines and healthcare resources, to communities around the world — whether they’re … [Read more...] about A Global Relief Organization Keeps the Spigot Open for Community Healthcare Providers Closer to Home
How Kellogg and Partner Philanthropies Are Funding in Haiti, a Country Beset by Crisis
A Skoll Award Winner Finds a Proximate Solution for School-Based Nutrition in Africa
Earlier this month, a community of some 1,500 from around the world gathered at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford to help find solutions to issues ranging from climate change to intergenerational trauma. Hosted by the foundation created by Jeff Skoll, … [Read more...] about A Skoll Award Winner Finds a Proximate Solution for School-Based Nutrition in Africa
How the Segal Family Foundation Funds Globally, Acts Locally
Despite all the growth in global giving, U.S.-based foundations have historically funded close to home. Fewer than a quarter engaged in international grantmaking over the past few decades. And while the ideas of locally led development and proximate … [Read more...] about How the Segal Family Foundation Funds Globally, Acts Locally
A Public-Private Cancer Funder Backs Team Science and Targets Inequities in Care and Outcomes
A set of sizable recent grants from Cancer Grand Challenges — a deep-pocketed global research funder — puts the focus on two areas of medical research increasingly common in philanthropic funding: cooperative team science and equity in healthcare. … [Read more...] about A Public-Private Cancer Funder Backs Team Science and Targets Inequities in Care and Outcomes
On/Go: Healthcare Entrepreneur Ron Gutman on Championing Humanitarian Causes
We all know the feeling: waiting with bated breath for that T line and C line to pop up. A pre-2020 time traveler would marvel at the COVID testing that has since become a part of normal life, even as the new normal no longer feels new. Back in the … [Read more...] about On/Go: Healthcare Entrepreneur Ron Gutman on Championing Humanitarian Causes
Where is MacKenzie Scott’s Global Giving Headed? Here’s What the Latest Data Tells Us
Numbers always tell a story. For MacKenzie Scott’s global giving, the Yield Giving database reveals a sustained level of giving and consistent issue priorities. The giving trends that emerged when the database launched last year remained constant … [Read more...] about Where is MacKenzie Scott’s Global Giving Headed? Here’s What the Latest Data Tells Us
With “A Little Courage,” Ipas Is Shifting Money to the Front Lines of Abortion and Contraceptive Access
In early December, Ipas, the world’s only international NGO dedicated exclusively to expanding access to abortion and contraception, announced that it had found a way to double the number of grantees receiving money through its Ipas Collaborative … [Read more...] about With “A Little Courage,” Ipas Is Shifting Money to the Front Lines of Abortion and Contraceptive Access
Big Pledges Won’t Solve Our Climate and Health Crisis If Those Who Need the Money Can’t Access It
Last month in Dubai, leaders at COP28 took the first critical steps to strengthen the global health response to climate change. Later this month in Davos at the World Economic Forum, leaders will gather in attempts to galvanize action along similar … [Read more...] about Big Pledges Won’t Solve Our Climate and Health Crisis If Those Who Need the Money Can’t Access It
“The Solutions Are There.” Funding Challenge Backs Community-Led Efforts to Save Mothers and Infants
Lwala is all about community, as its full name, Lwala Community Alliance, makes clear. The Kenya-based organization, working in partnership with Dandelion Africa, aims to expand its community-led healthcare approach to tackle maternal and infant … [Read more...] about “The Solutions Are There.” Funding Challenge Backs Community-Led Efforts to Save Mothers and Infants
Three Ways the Gates Foundation is Supporting the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals
On the margins of the U.N. General Assembly this year — where an underlying theme was the troubling stalled state of advancement on most of the governing body’s Sustainable Development Goals — the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation backed a set of … [Read more...] about Three Ways the Gates Foundation is Supporting the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals
Gates Leans into mRNA Technology for Vaccine Capacity in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Earlier this month, the Nobel Foundation awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman in recognition of their decades of research into mRNA vaccine technology, now familiar to many of … [Read more...] about Gates Leans into mRNA Technology for Vaccine Capacity in Low and Middle-Income Countries
This Year at the UNGA, Philanthropies Unite Behind Democracy and Locally Led Development
The U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, were a top focus at the U.N. General Assembly’s 78th Session this year. The SDG summit, which is mandated to occur every four years at the beginning of UNGA proceedings, came at an important time. … [Read more...] about This Year at the UNGA, Philanthropies Unite Behind Democracy and Locally Led Development
This Bespoke Funding Intermediary Focuses Donors on a Dozen Highly Vetted Global Grantees
Larry Gilson, founder and current board chair of the funding intermediary Focusing Philanthropy, sat at a round conference table in the group’s bright office and pointed to a big, glossy photo on the wall. It showed nine people standing in a village … [Read more...] about This Bespoke Funding Intermediary Focuses Donors on a Dozen Highly Vetted Global Grantees
Global Lack of Access to Eye Care Exacts a Great Cost. But This Organization Is Stepping Up
Sight is arguably one of the body’s most important functions, yet even in wealthy countries like the U.S., eye care is treated as an outsider. Those seeking care often hit a financial roadblock, as healthcare insurers hold vision apart from … [Read more...] about Global Lack of Access to Eye Care Exacts a Great Cost. But This Organization Is Stepping Up
Gates Remains Among the Few in Philanthropy to Drive Research for an HIV Vaccine
Forty years after the start of the epidemic, HIV may not seem as pressing an emergency as it did initially. Along with improvements in education and testing, antiretroviral therapy has been a lifesaver for millions of people with the virus. But there … [Read more...] about Gates Remains Among the Few in Philanthropy to Drive Research for an HIV Vaccine
