August 31, 2010
Broad Foundation Awards $20 Million to Broad Center for Management of School Systems
Philanthropy News Digest
8/31/10
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation has announced a $20 million grant to the Broad Center for the Management of School Systems to continue recruiting, training, placing, and supporting school district leaders nationwide.
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Moundridge Community Foundation Established
McPherson Sentinel
8/30/10
The Moundridge Community has recently affiliated with the McPherson County Community Foundation in Kansas to form the Moundridge Community Foundation. The goal of the foundation is to establish a means to benefit a wide variety of non-profit organizations in their efforts to improve health care, human services, education, arts and culture or other charitable initiatives which enhance the Moundridge community.
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Warren Buffett’s ‘Business Gene’ Built an Empire That Changed History
The Independent
8/30/10
Warren Buffett has never revealed when he had his ego surgically removed, but it must have been at a very young age. As he turns 80 today, the billionaire investment guru remains as cheerfully good-hearted, funny and self-deprecating as ever – so much so, in fact, that it is easy to miss just how significant a figure he is in the history of American business.
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Innovation In Education: Bill Gates’ Favorite Teacher
Forbes
By David A. Kaplan
8/26/10
Bill Gates is a voracious consumer of online education and is a big fan of Sal Khan’s Khan Academy, which offers free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an ebullient, articulate Harvard MBA and former hedge fund manager. Khan has tapped several philanthropists like Gates to build the academy.
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How Aid to Pakistan Can Get to Where It’s Needed
The Vancouver Sun
By Shamsh Kassim-Lakha
8/31/10
The floods in Pakistan are described as being of biblical proportions. The same rivers that have provided a lifeline to its people for centuries have now submerged a fifth of Pakistan’s land mass and left 20 million homeless. But while financial help is available, donors are paralyzed by fears that their support may never reach its intended targets. How can caring people in North America be sure that their support is protected from corruption and dilution, and effectively delivered to those in need?
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Record Number in Government Anti-Poverty Program
USA Today
By Richard Wolf
8/30/10
Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor, a survey of state data by USA TODAY shows. That’s up at least 17 percent since the recession began in December 2007.
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