On March 30, 2023, Take Stock in Children welcomed close to 100 mentors from two counties to a very special event. This was a “Mentor Celebration” to honor and show appreciation to the people who mentor the high school students […]
To honor his 60th birthday, Michael Jordan made the largest-ever donation to the Make-A-Wish organization this week. According to the Associated Press, Jordan donated $10 million to Make-A-Wish, which will create an endowment to provide funding to make future wishes […]
One of the highest paid YouTube creators, Jimmy Donaldson, funded 1000 ten-minute surgeries last week that restored the vision via a MSICS procedure (manual small incision cataract surgery.) This procedure “vacuums” off cataracts that are causing cloudiness in the patient’s […]
The Fundraising Effectiveness Project recently released the 2022 third quarter results and the bottom line summary is that individual donors’ numbers are decreasing, but the amounts that are being donated are increasing. That means that the concern is how to […]
Research is indicating that habits of giving have changed in the past decade in America. Charitable giving as part of the yearly budget and the support for philanthropy is narrowing according to a How America Gives study. One study showed […]
As we approach the holidays, there is always a push by organizations to ask for charitable contributions. December is the month when a majority portion of all charitable donations are made. It likely falls this way because donors are feeling […]
As we approach the end of 2022, it’s interesting to look back and see what the trends have been this year in philanthropy and giving in general. Despite economic uncertainty, there are some donors (59% according to Fidelity Charitable) who […]
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced in July that it will be spending $20 billion dollars over the course of several years to tackle specific world problems. The issues that Gates has identified are the prevention of pandemics, eradicating […]
Robin Hood, New York City’s largest poverty-fighting organization, launched a $100 million Child Care Quality & Innovation Initiative for New York City this month. It was announced by the Robin Hood Foundation, New York City mayor Eric Adams, and venture […]
Last September, the department chair of the physics department at City College of New York discovered a plain cardboard box about the size of a toaster. The box was addressed to “Chairman, Physics Department” and contained $180,000 cash as a […]