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Helen Phillips Levin – American social worker and disability rights activist, supported grantmaking through her family's Jay and Rose Philips Family Foundation; Henry Ford – co-founder of the Ford Foundation; Henry W. Bloch – founder of H&R Block Tax company. Henry established the nationally acclaimed Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute ...
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants and impact investments to support non-profit organizations in approximately 117 countries around the world. It has an endowment of $7.6 billion and provides approximately $260 million annually in grants and impact investments.
Shirley Watts, wife of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, has died at the age of 82, her family has announced. The pair met in 1961 and were happily married for 57 years before Charlie’s ...
The Stamps Family Charitable Foundation offers merit scholarships to 44 partner colleges and universities in the United States. The foundation and scholarships are named for their benefactors, E. Roe Stamps IV and Penelope W. Stamps. In general, in the scholarship programs focus on the support of outstanding undergraduate students, without ...
The foundation's philanthropic efforts have mirrored the interests of the individual members of the Walton family. [7] In 2018, the foundation awarded more than $595 million in grants for education, environmental and other causes. [9] The foundation gave a total of $525 million in 2019. [6]
The foundation began five scholarships of $15,000, dubbed the Dolly Parton Scholarship, to Sevier County’s high school seniors to help students continue their studies at an accredited university.
The community came through to help Staunton family purchase a wheelchair-accessible van for their 9-year-old daughter with Rett Syndrome.
We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by musician Nile Rodgers and his life partner, Nancy Hunt. Based in New York City—and established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks—WAFF recognizes, funds, and mentors youth leaders who work to bring about positive change.