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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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).
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...