Kendra Scott is donating $1 million to help expand Dell Children’s Medical Center and create a new event center. Kendra Scott began making jewelry in her home as a teenager. In her mid-20s in 2002, she founded Kendra Scott LLC with $500 in material and sold the jewelry she made door to door at boutiques […]
Rihanna is pledging $15 million to fight climate change and environmental inequity, through her Clara Lionel Foundation. The singer founded the Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012, naming it after her grandparents. Its first major tackle was Hurricane Sandy, when the CLF supported relief efforts by the Food Bank of NYC throughout New England. This latest […]
Black churches get a helping hand this week, in the form of a $20 million donation. The Preserving Black Churches Project, run by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, was started by the National Trust for Historical Preservation in 2017. It is, by the numbers, the largest ever attempt to preserve and restore sites […]
Moderna has donated 2.7 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico, to help fight the omicron surge. This week, Mexico passed 300,000 test-confirmed* deaths due to COVID-19, which accounts for over 7 percent of their entire population. (For comparison, the 864,000 deaths in the United States amount to 1.4 percent of the population. Less […]
Handmade wood canes help restore dignity to veterans, with the generosity of an Indiana couple. Joe Ferrell and his wife Sue have long family trees buried in soldiers’ cemeteries, including Sue’s son, Donald, who joined the army after 9/11 and died only a year after coming back from his final deployment. Donald, like many veterans, […]
The Anta billionaire clan in China is donating nearly $1.2 billion in stock shares to a community development foundation. The Anta billionaire clan is made up of the Ding family, four men who jointly control Anta Sports, one of the largest sportswear businesses in the world. Chairman Ding Shizong, his brother deputy chairman Ding Shijia […]
Toyota will be donating half a million dollars to help those impacted by the tornadoes that devastated parts of Kentucky over the weekend. A single massive stormfront passing through caused tornadoes in Arkansas, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Missouri. In Kentucky, 74 people are confirmed dead, and many more are still missing. The town of […]
The Earth Fund, Jeff Bezos’s charitable organization, donated nearly half a billion dollars to climate groups this week. Bezos has faced substantial criticism recently from environmental groups for his space tourism efforts. While Blue Origin’s hydrogen-burning rockets are cleaner than SpaceX’s kerosene-fueled ones, at least at the point of launch, they’re still an emissions nightmare, […]
The Dell Foundation is helping to tackle homelessness in Austin, Texas with a $38 million pledge to help build micro-homes. The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, legacy of the founder of Dell Technologies and his wife, is dedicated to improving the lives of children living in poverty, tackling issues such as education, healthcare, and food […]
The Obama Foundation has received its largest donation yet – $100 million from billionaire Jeff Bezos. The Barack Obama Foundation was founded in 2014 to continue former President Obama’s work after he left the White House. It oversees the ongoing creation of the Barack Obama Presidential Center, which will be a community center in Chicago […]