Hundreds of people gathered on Monday to pay their respects and say a final goodbye to beloved Charlotte philanthropist Leon Levine.Levine died last week at his Charlotte home while under Hospice care. The 85-year-old spent much of his life...
A few weeks ago, I watched an outstanding film about the Foellinger family of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the outsized impact family members have had on that community. “An Influence for Good” begins with the emigration of the family...
By Judy Wilson | Associate Editor
Lighthouse Point – Dr. Jim Acheson is being remembered this week in two communities, his hometown of Port Huron, Michigan, and in Lighthouse Point where his generosity and reluctance to take the spotlight had...
Caitlyn Fox was the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s first employee, and a few years ago, she was the one tapped to lead the organization’s new climate portfolio.Fox, vice president of strategic initiatives at CZI, has been at Mark Zuckerberg and...
For more than 20 years, architectural design firm Group 70 has made giving back a core element of its company culture.
In 2002, architecture design firm Group 70 decided they wanted to build Hawai‘i-focused philanthropy into their company culture. Instead...
A roundup of notable gifts compiled by the Chronicle:Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery FoundationThe brothers Leonard and Ronald Lauder, and their children — William Lauder, Gary Lauder, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, and Jane Lauder — pledged to give the foundation $200 million...
Football Stars Hendon Hooker, Nolan Smith and Drew Sanders will help promote the effort in which proceeds from every bottle of Six Star® 100% Whey Protein Plus sold at Walmart® will go towards Feeding America® and the fight against...
Participatory grantmaking has been practiced in modern philanthropy for over 40 years, and beyond that, the act of communities determining how to distribute resources collectively has roots that go back farther than modern philanthropy.
I recently had the opportunity to...
