Amy Schiller

Sep 12, 2024 | philanthropy.com | Amy Schiller

Editor’s Note: This is the second column in a series by philanthropy expert Amy Schiller that explores big donations and where they fall on the good philanthropy/bad philanthropy continuum. Read the first column in the series . Contributions of land and endowments for its conservation have been attractive to donors throughout the history of American philanthropy.

Jul 18, 2024 | philanthropy.com | Amy Schiller

Editor’s Note: Philanthropy expert Amy Schiller will periodically explore big donations and where they fall on the good philanthropy/bad philanthropy continuum. Look for more from her on that subject in the months to come. Michael Bloomberg has succeeded at the highest levels of business, philanthropy, and politics, both because of — and in spite of — a moderate pragmatism that takes the euphoric edge off of even his biggest accomplishments.

Jun 12, 2024 | philanthropy.com | Amy Schiller

Feminist activist Marie Shear famously wrote that “feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” This axiom also summarizes Melinda French Gates’s commitment to women, as evidenced by her recent pledge of $1 billion over the next two years to organizations advancing women’s rights and gender equity and the $12.5 billion now at her discretion following her official separation last week from the Gates Foundation.

Feb 20, 2024 | philanthropy.com | Amy Schiller

“We must raise the money!” Joseph Pulitzer wrote in his newspaper, the New York World, on March 16, 1885. The Statue of Liberty “is not a gift from the millionaires of France to the millionaires of America but a gift of the whole people of France to the whole people of America!” Pulitzer’s long-ago plea could be a rallying cry for nonprofits today vexed by the decline of small-dollar donors.

Dec 9, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Amy Schiller

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