Henry and Susan Samueli donated $25 million to Israel’s Rabin Medical Center, which was matched with an additional $9 million from Clalit Health Services, to create a holistic cancer treatment institute, which is meant to both treat patients and...
Thirty-five minutes before Marvin Butts was set to graduate, a Hughes High School administrator informed him that he would participate in the ceremony, but he wouldn't be receiving his diploma. He owed $35 in unpaid student fees."Luckily, my rich...
Jarnail Singh is the deputy director, India, at John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, where he co-manages the India portfolio of the foundation’s grantmaking. As a development practitioner, he is deeply interested in the intersection of the...
1. Like tourism, International Development is heavily Eurocentric. It started off on the wrong note – advancing white supremacy, white saviourism, racism and domination over the global south. Today there are multiple unresolved and ongoing injustices which maintain and...
In this article, we report progress on our consultations across the ‘development’ ecosystem in the nine months since the publication of the Jigsaw report that called for root and branch reform of international development.
The process of consultation and dialogue...
To the Editor:The philanthropy world has been inundated with responses and counter responses since the Chronicle of Philanthropy published an op-ed (April 13, 2023) by cross-ideological grant makers and association leaders calling for greater philanthropic pluralism. I found it...
“To be a pioneer — as Jews know from our history — you have to be prepared to spend a long time in the wilderness,” wrote Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in his “Covenant and Conversation” essay on parshat Noah. This...
In an op-ed published today in The Hill entitled “Federal Oversight: When Regulatory Burdens Rise, Charities Suffer,” Director of Policy Research at Philanthropy Roundtable Jack Salmon, hits back at excessive regulations proposed by the White House. He discusses why...
Supporting institutions around the world has been at the heart of The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission since its founding 110 years ago. Moderated by Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, this panel, entitled “From Vision to Action: Role...
