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To address a nationwide shortage of healthcare workers, Bloomberg Philanthropies is plowing $250 million into an initiative to underwrite public high schools that’ll pair regular academics with specialized job training.
Medical debt forces families to choose between buying groceries and paying bills, and prevents them from seeking further care. The Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation gave a boost to an effort to wipe out such debt.
The Simms/Mann Family Foundation, based in Los Angeles, gives primarily toward healthcare, education and the arts. It seeks to make a big impact as a mid-sized foundation, now with a focus on the nursing profession.
Matt and Lisa Allen derive their wealth from real estate behemoth Related Group. Their family has been donating to hospitals and universities for a while, but recently formalized their giving. Here’s an early look.
This Central Texas foundation is a prime example of a regional health funder doubling down on equity as it serves booming Austin and several rural communities. Here are a few noteworthy steps it’s taking.
For some donors, supporting Intermountain Health’s campaign to enhance care for kids throughout the region is highly personal. For others, it’s become something to rally community around in the wake of the pandemic.
Barbra Streisand has always been active in social issues, and launched a foundation back in the 1980s. She’s made a couple of interesting philanthropic moves in recent years, including racial justice gifts.
North Carolina’s Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust announced it is divesting from tobacco — and taking a frank look at its history and the source of its wealth. Dr. Laura Gerald unpacks the process and the result.
Facing down a national shortage of nursing professionals, the American Nurses Foundation is funding a range of pilot projects developed and led by nurses, and meant to spark innovation in the field.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation will provide $100 million to the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to modernize and enhance care for mothers and infants — and carry on Lucile Packard’s legacy.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s $100 million response to the pandemic played out in more than 200 grants that backed communities around the globe. We take a close look at where the money went and why.
For more than 25 years, the Chao family have been among the largest health benefactors in Orange County, California. The family’s recent $20 million gift to UC Irvine Health will create a new cancer care treatment center.
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed countries. Funders ranging from a supermodel to a multinational corporation are tackling the deep inequalities behind this upsetting reality.
For a year, healthcare workers have risked their lives going to work every day. Here’s how a family foundation, a local restaurant group and a healthcare network teamed up to provide meals for Colorado hospital workers and their families.
Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio is giving $50 million to a New York hospital to tackle racial health disparities. The unique gift will fund the institution’s work to address inequities inside and outside the healthcare system.
Blank recently made two multimillion-dollar gifts in the healthcare space, building on years of giving. In a conversation with IP, he reflects on his latest donations, his new book, and where he sees his philanthropy heading next.
When COVID-19 hit the U.S., the New Jersey-based Russell Berrie Foundation rushed to support longstanding partners. Foundation leaders and grantees explain how such relationships take shape, and how they pay off during a crisis.
Hedge-funder Michael F. Price made a million-dollar challenge grant to jump start COVID-19 research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. The borough has been a pandemic epicenter, and a critical site for research.
Steve Kirsch is giving big to study existing antiviral drugs for early treatment of COVID-19 and working to enlist other donors. Such a treatment could render the disease far less destructive. So why aren’t more funders getting onboard?
From protective equipment shortages to the long-term toll on families, healthcare workers are shouldering some of the heaviest burdens of the pandemic. Here’s how corporate and private funders are responding.
For the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the pandemic only makes the role of inequity in America's health that much clearer, and the need to address it at the state and federal level that much more urgent.
A $55 million gift to Stanford is the latest example of a donor funding a debt-free medical education at an affluent private school. We dig into donors’ surging support around this idea and why it will likely spread to public universities, as well.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has been a rare philanthropic champion of nursing education. Now it's shifting focus and funds to empower the profession's leaders to reshape the role of nurses in a changing health landscape.
Most health philanthropy consists of chasing breakthrough cures and treatments. But what many ill people want is improved quality of life—which is why two funders recently launched a campaign to raise awareness of the benefits of palliative care.
A growing number of donors large and small contribute to an organization that’s buying up medical debt on the secondary market and forgiving up to $100 of debt for every dollar it receives in contributions—a sky-high ROI.
The latest in Denny Sanford’s string of big gifts finds the credit card billionaire underwriting a new institute at University of California San Diego to research empathy and reshape medical training to benefit doctors and patients.
The U.S. will need 1.5 million new nurses by 2026 to provide care for retiring baby boomers. Despite this looming public health crisis, philanthropy has been largely tuned out. Can a recent big gift out of D.C. help change the narrative?
June Bradham fell into fundraising by accident, back when it was still a male-dominated field, but she went on to chart a stellar career that has included pioneering new research and building a successful consulting practice. How did she do it?
They sold their company for $1.4 billion. Now, a San Diego couple is working on three fronts—philanthropy, research and policy—to make the United States’ culture and healthcare system more friendly to seniors in an era of rapid demographic transition.
While many mega-donors have a hands-on relationship with the recipient organization, billionaire corporate turnaround specialist Jay Alix’s close ties with the Mayo Clinic are unusual. We dig into the intriguing backstory leading up to his historic gift.