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The Home Depot Foundation Will Spend $1 Billion on Veteran Housing by 2032

Yolanda Caldwell’s house is yellow, three bedrooms, on a quiet street near a golf course in San Bernardino County. Caldwell, 55, is a disabled Army National Guard veteran who lost her first house during the pandemic and then moved her two sons

October 26, 2026

Philanthropy

The Duke Endowment Gave $100 Million to Build a Children’s Hospital for North Carolina

The announcement was made on empty land. On a 220-acre wooded tract near U.S. 1 and N.C. 540 in southern Apex, a site so undeveloped it reads as GPS coordinates on a map, The Duke Endowment committed $100 million on Tuesday, October

October 26, 2026

Philanthropy

The Ford Foundation Is Reorganizing Around Democracy and Racial Justice

One year into the job, Heather Gerken has redrawn the map of the Ford Foundation. The foundation announced a new strategic direction on Thursday, October 22, reorganizing its grantmaking around what it calls the preconditions for thriving democracies. It is the first

October 26, 2026

Philanthropy

The NXT Awards Will Put $49,000 in Scholarships on Stage Tonight

Tonight, in the middle of an awards show at the Coca-Cola Roxy, seven people from the Atlanta community will be called to the stage and presented with scholarships worth $49,000 in total. The moment is built into the second annual NXT Awards,

October 25, 2026

Philanthropy

Dionne Warwick Was Honored at a Ball That Raised $3 Million for Blood Cancer Research

At every place setting inside Cipriani Wall Street on Monday night sat a long, tapered candle. Before a single award was presented, Denise Rich asked her guests to light them, for her daughter Gabrielle and for everyone in treatment now. The chatter

October 25, 2026

Philanthropy

David and Rhonda Cohen Give the Philadelphia Orchestra $10.5 Million for Diplomacy and Discovery

David L. Cohen represented the United States in Canada for four years. He and his wife, Rhonda R. Cohen, have now put $10.5 million behind a Philadelphia institution that works the same territory, one concert hall at a time: The Philadelphia Orchestra.

October 25, 2026

Philanthropy

MacKenzie Scott Gave HBCUs More Than a Billion Dollars and No Instructions

This fall, Morgan State University wrote to 2,100 of its students with a direct offer: if money was the thing standing between you and the end of the semester, say so. Six hundred students said so. The offer was possible because of

October 25, 2026

Philanthropy

In London, African Wealth Holders Talked About Giving That Outlives Them

The room sat on Gresham Street in the City of London, inside the offices of ICBC Standard Bank, and the question on the table on October 23 was an old one asked in a new way: what happens to African money after

October 25, 2026

A Black man with a megaphone addresses a crowd at an outdoor voter organizing event

Politics

Saturday Is the First National Black Man Voter Day

Saturday is the first National Black Man Voter Day, the closing act of a nationwide Week of Action built by the NAACP, the National Urban League, 100 Black Men of America, Black Men Vote, Woke Vote, and State of the People. The

October 24, 2026

Lifestyle

Christie’s Auctions One Collector’s 1,700 Bottles in New York Today

The cellar took three decades to build. It will take one day to sell. Just over 1,700 bottles from a single American collector go under the hammer at Christie’s New York today, Friday, October 23, in The Distinguished Cellar of an American

October 23, 2026

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The Home Depot Foundation Will Spend $1 Billion on Veteran Housing by 2032

The Duke Endowment Gave $100 Million to Build a Children’s Hospital for North Carolina

The Ford Foundation Is Reorganizing Around Democracy and Racial Justice

The NXT Awards Will Put $49,000 in Scholarships on Stage Tonight

Dionne Warwick Was Honored at a Ball That Raised $3 Million for Blood Cancer Research

David and Rhonda Cohen Give the Philadelphia Orchestra $10.5 Million for Diplomacy and Discovery

MacKenzie Scott Gave HBCUs More Than a Billion Dollars and No Instructions

In London, African Wealth Holders Talked About Giving That Outlives Them

Saturday Is the First National Black Man Voter Day

Christie’s Auctions One Collector’s 1,700 Bottles in New York Today

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