Philanthropy

A New York Gala Raised Nearly $2 Million So Emergency Rooms Are Ready for Children

Twenty years ago, Phyllis and Andrew Rabinowitz walked into an emergency room with their nine-day-old daughter and walked out without her. On Wednesday, October 21, five hundred people filled Capitale on the Bowery and raised nearly $2 million to keep that sentence

October 26, 2026

Philanthropy

Every HBCU Founder on Bet On Black Season 6 Shares a $500,000 Growth Fund

Nobody goes home empty-handed this season. When REVOLT’s Bet On Black returned on Monday, October 19, the entrepreneurship series dropped its single grand prize and replaced it with a shared one: every student founder in Season 6 takes a portion of a

October 26, 2026

Philanthropy

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

Five fund partners seated at the signing table for the Conservation and Stewardship Fund, with Old Faithful erupting behind them. Photo by the National Park Service.

Philanthropy

A $105 Million Fund Will Pay for Yellowstone’s Next Century of Stewardship

Yellowstone has been a public trust since 1872, and this week it acquired a private endowment to match the scale of the place. The National Park Service, its nonprofit partner Yellowstone Forever, and Tallgrass, an energy infrastructure company owned by Blackstone Infrastructure,

October 23, 2026

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Philanthropy

A New York Gala Raised Nearly $2 Million So Emergency Rooms Are Ready for Children

Every HBCU Founder on Bet On Black Season 6 Shares a $500,000 Growth Fund

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

A $105 Million Fund Will Pay for Yellowstone’s Next Century of Stewardship

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