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Howard Buffett’s philanthropic journey is set to take a new turn as he puts his cheetah conservation reserve in South Africa up for sale, reports the ...

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced four major grant programmes totalling over $245m (£149m) in the fields of agriculture, science, medical research and development and history.

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A donation of 8bn yuan (£700m) worth of shares by the Chinese mining and supermarket tycoon Chen Fushu to create the country’s largest civil charity foundation, is ‘widely speculated’ to...

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Tracking the impact of the recession on giving...

News that Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland is to suspend grant-making indefinitely comes...

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A US billionaire pharmaceutical executive has donated $100m (£62.5m) to the St. John’s Health Centre in California to help it become a cutting-edge medical hub for the region, the Los...

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Billionaire philanthropist George Soros plans to invest up to $1 bn (£630m) in clean-energy technologies and donate $100m (£63m) to form an environmental advisory group to aid policymakers.

Soros has not...

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Philanthropist Alec Reed helped raise £50,000 for Asia-Pacific emergency appeals this week through a matched funding scheme that doubled £25,000 of donations made on theBigGive.org.uk.

Three naturals disasters in...

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Two new charitable investments by the Private Equity Foundation (PEF) have taken the venture philanthropy fund’s total investment in Germany to €400,000 (£365,000).

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Former US President Bill Clinton announced an increase in the number and value of pledges made by attendees at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) held in New York on...

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation presented its tenth annual Access to Learning Award of $1m (£620,000) to the Columbian ...

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