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1 week ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
The Hereditary Disease Foundation just announced a new round of research grants in two of its three grantmaking programs, a welcome bit of good news in an otherwise bleak moment for medical research in the U.S. The 2025 grants, totalling $1.8 million, go to 16 researchers around the world who are focused on finding treatments and cures for Huntington’s disease.
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2 weeks ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
In the midst of an avalanche of bad funding news for nonprofits and the foundations and donors who champion them, one cause continues to gain traction: the effort to stop industrial animal farming and build sustainable food systems.
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2 weeks ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
Foundations and nonprofits measure impact and effectiveness in various ways, but happiness per dollar isn’t typically one of the metrics used. Maybe it should be.
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3 weeks ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
King Charles. Credit: Alessia Pierdomenico/ShutterstockWhen King Charles III was still Prince of Wales, he used his military pension of £7,000 — earned from his time in the Royal Navy — . Called The Prince’s Trust, it focused on helping vulnerable young people in the U.K. build successful careers. The Prince’s Trust operated solely in the U.K. for its first 40 years, then, in 2015, expanded its work, first to Malta and then to Greece.
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1 month ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
Part of Bouman's focus has been on helping the RFF Foundation for Aging develop its advocacy capabilities. Credit: fizkes/ShutterstockJohn Bouman is a leading public interest lawyer in Chicago who has helped foundations effectively support advocacy and legal action.
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1 month ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
I was sitting on a bench at the end of a hallway in a small hospital outside Austin, talking to Mary O’Donnell, president and CEO of RRF Foundation for Aging, while also keeping one eye on the room where my mother was recuperating from surgery after a fall. This effort to support an older adult while typing — admittedly not an optimal journalistic moment — is typical of family caregivers and highlights the need for the work of RRF.
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1 month ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
Craig Newmark at the Internet Archive in February 2025 at WikiCredCon 2025. Credit: Jennifer 8. Lee/Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licenseCraig Newmark, whose eponymous classified service Craigslist turns 30 this year, is putting his money behind helping more of Gen Z keep theirs — by avoiding internet scams. This may sound like a surprising locus for philanthropy.
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1 month ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
Jane Wales. Credit: The Aspen InstituteJane Wales, the founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI), has a long history of bringing leaders together to learn, brainstorm and create new solutions to old (and new) problems. At PSI, Wales helped create the Aspen Philanthropy Group, a networking and peer education forum of CEOs from 23 major U.S. foundations, including the Hewlett, Charles Stewart Mott, Skoll and Packard foundations.
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1 month ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
This just in: Charitable giving in the U.K. has dropped dramatically in the past near-decade, with young people in particular holding onto their money. This news comes from the “UK Giving Report 2025: Trends in Giving,” published by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), a group of three charitable organizations in the U.K., the U.S. and Canada. CAF began a century ago in England, and today supports corporate and individual donors as well as charities around the world.
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2 months ago | 
insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris
James Patterson and Susan Patterson at the 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards. Credit: Kathy Hutchins/ShutterstockWhile MFA grads working on the Great American Novel may subsist on Ramen noodles with roommates in fifth-floor walk-ups, writers churning out popular thriller novels live on the other end of the economic spectrum.
