Thursday, Apr 30, 2026 18:40PM
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has never been comfortable with divestment pressures from activists. It took the slow route to finally divesting from PetroChina, wh... FULL STORY >>
Resources: The Guardian
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack addressed the 2015 National Rural Assembly, but didn’t deliver a stock speech. Choosing instead to simply answer questions, Vilsack... FULL STORY >>
Resources: U.S. Department of Agriculture
There is no point to dissecting Donald Trump’s speech on the deck of the U.S.S. Iowa for the nonexistent specifics of his plans for improving services for American mili... FULL STORY >>
Resources: CBS News
Until recently, the 32-year-old mayor of Lawrence, Kansas, was also the executive director of Just Food, a local food bank. Then, in mid-August, he resigned both positions after it was revealed that the organization had not p... FULL STORY >>
Resources: 6News (Lawrence, KS)
I was working in Beirut in 2014 when it was reported that the number of Syrian refugees coming across the border had passed the one-million mark. The toll the situation was taking on the country’s housing, employment, educa... FULL STORY >>
Resources: CNBC
In Africa, as elsewhere, “traditional” giving has taken something of a bashing since the launch of the effective altruism, a.k.a. strategic giving, movement—what Kayode Samuel calls “strategic philanthropy that delive... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Washington Post
NPQ has long tried to raise the alarm about what Rick Cohen in 2010 called the unhealthy mix of nonprofits and pharmaceuticals. Now, that issue appears to be coming to the forefront of the consciousness of the public and the ... FULL STORY >>
Resources: New York Times
Lily Thapa founder of Global Fund for Women grantee partner Women for Human Rights, pictured in Ghorka, Nepal, where she has established temporary shelters and relief for women at the Ghorka Museum camp. On April 25, a 7.8... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Nepal Earhquake Story
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the King Baudouin Foundation, and Foundation Center have announced the launch of Equal Footing, a free data portal highlighting philanthropic resources for economic development in Central Africa. ... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Rebecca Koenig
Last month I was a guest lecturer for Stanford University’s Technology Entrepreneurship course. Now I’m bringing the lecture to you in a seven-post series. This is Lesson 3. Shonda Rhimes — the wildly successful scre... FULL STORY >>
Resources: The Fobes
