For the second year, UC Merced's Student Alumni Association (SAA) and Office of Alumni Relations have partnered to host Student Philanthropy Month in March. The monthlong initiative is dedicated to building a culture of philanthropy and awareness at UC...
Many Arab Americans, like many members of all groups of people, are incredibly generous. Whether preparing food for a sick neighbor or responding to humanitarian crises in their ancestral homelands or the US, they are guided by formal and...
Billionaires love donor-advised funds. Just look at the hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts that their foundations shower on DAFs each year.Google co-founder Larry Page sent all but 0.000004% of his foundation’s grants to a DAF in recent...
MacKenzie Scott is launching a $250 million “open call” for community-focused nonprofits that the billionaire philanthropist can fund.Through her organization Yield Giving, Scott plans to make unrestricted $1 million donations to 250 nonprofits selected in the process, which she...
MacKenzie Scott is launching a $250 million “open call” for community-focused nonprofits that the billionaire philanthropist can fund.Through her organization Yield Giving, Scott plans to make unrestricted $1 million donations to 250 nonprofits selected in the process, which she...
I write this from California, still in a record drought and paradoxically receiving enormous rain — floods and blizzards in places that have rarely, if ever, experienced such weather. And to add to the paradox, we have...