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Chronicle of Philanthropy
A person walks outside of the Gates Foundation campus Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
Gates Foundation unveils $9 billion budget and plans to cut staff
The Gates Foundation plans to spend a record $9 billion in 2026, focusing on global health and other key areas.
 
A craft maker works on a woven textile at home in Asheville, N.C., in February, 2025, keeping a natural dye garden and foraging in the mountains to create vibrant, earth-based colors for yarns. (Kelly Shotwell via AP)
How Nest turned a $24,000 idea into a global movement supporting women artisans
In 2005, Rebecca van Bergen was a graduate student in social work at Washington University when she won $24,000 in a school innovation contest.
 
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 4, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
MacKenzie Scott gives rare third gift to medical debt relief group
MacKenzie Scott continues to make medical debt relief a priority in her mysterious giving. This week, Undue Medical Debt, formerly RIP Medical Debt, announced it had received a rare third gift — $50 million — from the billionaire philanthropist, signaling her satisfaction with the group’s efforts to
 
FILE - Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour on Friday, June 21, 2024 in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
Did Taylor Swift create a new era for food bank donations?
Since last March, Taylor Swift has donated the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of meals to help feed the growing number of Americans grappling with rising food and housing costs.
 
This image courtesy of Dignity Moves shows the tiny homes community in downtown Santa Barbara, Calif., photographed in 2022. Dignity Moves and the County of Santa Barbara partnered on this interim supportive housing community, consisting of 34 private rooms with shared community spaces and access to county services. (Dignity Moves via AP)
Tiny homes, built largely with philanthropic support, offer more patch than solution to homelessness
In response to a nationwide crisis that has left more than 650,000 people without housing, 100 tiny home villages for the homeless have opened in the United States over the past five years.
 
FILE - A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen, May 4, 2021, in Washington. Congress and the Biden administration are considering what, if anything, should be done to tighten restrictions on donor-advised funds, an increasingly popular way for donors to set aside money to spend on charitable causes. This week, the Internal Revenue Service held a public hearing to discuss plans to regulate DAFs. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
The $230 billion donor-advised fund industry gets an IRS hearing
Congress and the Biden administration are considering what, if anything, should be done to tighten restrictions on donor-advised funds, an increasingly popular way for donors to set aside money to spend on charitable causes.