Partnership for Higher Education in Africa
In sub-Saharan Africa, only 4 percent of the college-age population got a chance to enroll at a university when the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa kicked off. Believing that Read more…
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Energy Foundation China
Concerned over the energy and environmental impact of China’s breakneck industrial expansion, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation provided $22.2 million in 1999 to create the China Sustainable Energy Program. Read more…
Fair Trade USA
Recognizing how easily foreign aid can encourage corruption and dependency in poor countries, an alternative movement has grown up which emphasizes international trade as a means of helping farmers, small Read more…
Massive Gifts to Global Health from the Gates Family
Bill Gates often explains in interviews how he decided to become a philanthropist: He was “exclusively focused” on Microsoft in the mid-1990s when his attention was captured by an article Read more…
Saving Bosnians and Serbs
In 1992, Serbian forces encircled the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia. Their siege lasted until 1995 and killed more than 10,000 people, most of them unarmed civilians out on the Read more…
Central European University
After the Berlin Wall fell, George Soros decided to found the first American-style university in Eastern Europe to help encourage the democratic transition of the region. The school, which offers Read more…
Reinventing Development Economics
In 1981 a Peruvian economist named Hernando de Soto formed a nonprofit in his country called the Institute for Liberty and Democracy. He had become convinced that a lack of Read more…
A Cool Billion After Armenia’s Earthquake
Late in 1988, a devastating earthquake struck Armenia, followed by months of aftershocks, killing more than 25,000 people and injuring 15,000 more. Factories and utilities were destroyed; roads and railways Read more…
Donating Drugs to Stop Dreadful Diseases
Private corporations have been key partners in certain philanthropic causes—particularly battles against diseases. Most of the major pharmaceutical companies now have charitable arms through which they give away free or Read more…
Partners in Health
Ophelia Dahl, daughter of the late writer Roald Dahl, volunteered at an eye clinic in Haiti in the mid-1980s, where she met a medical student named Paul Farmer. A few Read more…
Mobilizing African Aid
In 1986, the Christian charity World Vision invited popular rock musician Paul Hewson, better known as Bono, to visit some of their aid sites in Ethiopia. Moved by what he Read more…
Eradicating Polio
In 1985, the fraternal organization Rotary International began a major project to battle polio. Since then, Rotarians have contributed more than $850 million plus hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours Read more…
Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies
Roberta Buffett Elliott, the sister of Warren Buffett who has profited from his meteoric investment returns, is an alumna of Northwestern University. By funding the Buffett Center for International and Read more…
A Chinese Rhodes Scholarship
Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder of the Blackstone investment company, has focused his giving on learning. In the U.S. he is a long-time supporter of Catholic schools in New York City, and Read more…
Bolstering Science in Israel
U.S. philanthropists Sheldon and Miriam Adelson made two large gifts in 2014 to bolster the sciences in Israel. They offered $25 million to the school of health sciences at Ariel Read more…
Boosting Art in Hong Kong
Robert Miller, co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, is a long-time supporter of the arts in Hong Kong. In 2014 he and his wife, Chantal, made the largest gift ever for Read more…
Preserving Jewish History In Tel Aviv and Venice
In Tel Aviv and Venice Beit Hatfutsot, the museum of Jewish history and culture located at Tel Aviv University, first opened in 1978. It needed an overhaul to bring its Read more…
Mission Handbook
American Christians have actively donated to charitable work overseas for more than 200 years. And there is evidence that the level of foreign donations by U.S. Christians has risen briskly Read more…
Clean Water to Drink
Philanthropists Lynn and Foster Friess began supporting the nonprofit Water Missions International in 2005, after a tsunami created a health crisis in south Asia. They have since visited the group’s Read more…
Mobile Payments in Poor Countries
At present, 2.5 billion people in developing countries have no access to formal financial institutions like banks. They must rely on cash, tin-can savings, and other unsafe and inconvenient methods Read more…