The ongoing transformation of Seattle’s waterfront is getting a big boost from prominent philanthropists, as Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott, the Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation, and Expedia Group are pledging… Read More
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez are dedicating $100 million to a fund to help the Hawaiian island of Maui recover from devastating wildfires this week.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named 48 grant recipients in its AI Grand Challenge, seeking to encourage new applications of artificial intelligence by researchers in low- and middle-income countries.
Arts and culture organizations across Washington state are sharing $10 million in grants funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and administered by the Seattle-based nonprofit ArtsFund. The distribution… Read More
The Ballmer Group is giving a $43 million boost to early childhood education in Washington state with gifts directed toward the University of Washington and others. The philanthropic organization, co-founded… Read More
The Ballmer Group, co-founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie, is investing $3 million in CodePath, an education platform that helps underrepresented students pursue computer science… Read More
In his annual end-of-the-year essay, Bill Gates looks ahead to 2023 and the global challenges he hopes to help combat through his philanthropic work. Childhood disease and death, education, climate… Read More
Seattle philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott on Monday announced that she and her team have given nearly $2 billion over the past seven months to 343 organizations. Scott, who does… Read More
Steve and Connie Ballmer are investing $400 million in an effort to boost Black investment fund managers and Black businesses. The former Microsoft CEO and his wife are working with… Read More
MacKenzie Scott’s latest gift is going to the Girl Scouts of the USA, which announced Tuesday an $84.5 million donation — the largest individual donation from a single individual in… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Sunday announced a $1.2 billion commitment to aid an effort to eliminate polio worldwide. The disease is endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan and… Read More
Melinda French Gates this week offered a different timetable for the future of the Gates Foundation than the one laid out last month by her ex-husband Bill Gates. During Fortune’s… Read More
Washington state arts organizations that were hammered by the pandemic welcomed the news on Tuesday of $10 million in grants from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. The nonprofit ArtsFund… Read More
You know times are tough when a typically upbeat missive from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation starts sounding grim. Its sixth annual Goalkeepers Report is an opportunity for the… Read More
If you’ve already mastered a skateboarding ollie thanks to Tony Hawk or the art of storytelling courtesy of Malcom Gladwell, perhaps you’re ready to work on your impactful giving. Time… Read More
Jeff Bezos is giving $10 million more to Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry so that the institution can expand its Center for Innovation, named for the Amazon founder. The… Read More
Seattle’s Pacific Science Center is teaming with the Amazon Future Engineer program to deliver more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) interactive education programming to students from underserved and historically underrepresented… Read More
MacKenzie Scott keeps on giving. The billionaire Seattle philanthropist and author announced another round of significant charitable donations on Wednesday totaling $3.8 billion in support of 465 nonprofit organizations. In… Read More
MacKenzie Scott has gifted $436 million to Habitat for Humanity in the largest publicly disclosed donation since the billionaire Seattle philanthropist and author pledged to give away the majority of… Read More
The University of Oregon on Tuesday launched the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health on Tuesday, with a gift of more than $425 million from Connie and Steve Ballmer, an early… Read More
Billionaire Seattle philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott gave $50 million to the National 4-H Council, the youth-focused nonprofit announced on Tuesday. The amount is the largest single gift in 4-H’s… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named the first members of its new board of trustees, appointing three outsiders to join its namesake co-chairs in overseeing one of the world’s… Read More
MacKenzie Scott is taking a break from the headline-grabbing posts about multi-billion-dollar gifts she’s given to charity the past couple years to instead offer a lesson in what philanthropy truly… Read More
Melinda French Gates on Tuesday morning reaffirmed her commitment to the Giving Pledge, in which the world’s wealthiest people commit to give away (or “give back,” in the words of… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide up to $120 million to help lower-income countries access a new pill to treat COVID-19, the foundation announced Tuesday. Molnupiravir cuts the… Read More
Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott are sharing some of their immense wealth with organizations that want to empower other women, announcing Thursday that they are awarding $40 million as… Read More
Less than a week before he’s set to blast off on the first crewed mission of his Blue Origin spaceship, Jeff Bezos is making a $200 million donation to the… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will still be led by its namesakes after their divorce, but the foundation announced Wednesday a two-year trial period to see how effectively the… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it was committing $2.1 billion toward advancing global gender equality over the next five years, marking one of the largest single… Read More
