Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion to Widen Access to AI
Bill Gates warns AI could deepen inequality as the Gates Foundation commits $1 billion over two years for local-language models, health, education, and small-farmer tools across the developing world.
Hunger Action Month Arrives With Nearly 48 Million Americans Facing Food Insecurity
September's Hunger Action Month opens with nearly 48 million Americans, including more than 14 million children, facing food insecurity, as corporate donors like Dollar General and The Giant Company step in with food and cash.
Checkout Charity Raised $275 Million in 2024, and Shoppers Are Split on the Ask
Point-of-sale roundup campaigns pulled in over $275 million across 92 campaigns in 2024, including $36 million for food security, but more shoppers say the checkout ask bothers them than say they like it.
An Anonymous Connecticut Family Gives Americares a Record $50 Million as US Aid Cuts Squeeze Global Health
The $50 million gift is the largest in Americares' history, and half will fund the aid group's goal of helping 100 million people reach quality health care by 2030 as Washington's foreign aid cuts leave holes across global health programs.
Feeding America Maps Food Insecurity in Every US County as the Shortfall Tops $33 Billion
Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap 2026 puts the US food budget shortfall at $33.7 billion, with more than 8 in 10 of the highest food-insecurity counties rural or in the South and child food insecurity reaching every county.
WYDE's EAT Is Now the Largest Charity Token by Market Cap on CoinGecko
EAT, the token behind WYDE's End Hunger project, tops CoinGecko's charity category at about $24 million in market cap, ahead of Araracoin and GIVEBACK, as the charity crypto sector reaches about $76 million.
The North Texas Food Bank Says 1 in 4 Texas Children Now Face Hunger, the Highest Level in More Than a Decade
Nearly 800,000 people are food insecure across the 12 counties the food bank serves, and 291,310 of them are children. Its 13th annual peanut butter drive opens in September during Hunger Action Month.
A Record 907 Aid Workers Were Killed, Injured or Kidnapped in 2025 as Armed Drones Spread
The UN released the Aid Worker Security Database count on World Humanitarian Day. Gaza was the deadliest place for humanitarian staff for a third straight year, with 186 killed, and the total rose even as deaths fell.
Shakira and Howard Buffett Commit $1.25 Million and 10 Rebuilt Schools to Colombia's Chocó After the Earthquake
Nearly 200 schools reported damage from the August 10 quake. Shakira, Live Nation, the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund and CAF put up the first $1.25 million, and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation is funding 10 more schools on top of it.
Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman Pledge $400 Million to Launch a New York Brain and Longevity Institute
Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman are giving about $400 million in Pershing Square stock to launch the Ackman Oxman Institute, a New York brain research, rehabilitation and longevity center, after their daughter's near-fatal brain hemorrhage.
Former SPLC Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich Is Charged in the DOJ's $4 Million Donor Fraud Case
A second superseding indictment unsealed Wednesday adds the former hate group researcher to the criminal case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which prosecutors say secretly moved more than $4 million in donations to extremist informants.
HHS Proposes Erasing About 1,400 Head Start Rules and Cutting the Overhead Cap From 15% to 5%
The notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register August 7 with comments open through October 6. HHS says the overhead change frees $2.2 billion for 200,000 more seats. Providers say those same dollars pay for disability support and meals.
Bridgespan Says the Ultra Rich Give 1.2% a Year. MacKenzie Scott Gave $26 Billion
Bridgespan cofounder Jeffrey Bradach's new Stanford Social Innovation Review essay names the pattern slow philanthropy, with families above $500 million giving about 1.2 percent of assets a year while fortunes compound near 9 percent.
Nearly 200 Private Colleges Borrowed From Restricted Donor Endowments in 2025, WSJ Reports
A Wall Street Journal investigation finds struggling private colleges tapping restricted donor endowments for operating bills, with the share drawing down more than 7 percent a year doubling since 2016 and 440 plus colleges at risk of closing or merging.
George Norcross Gives Cooper University Health Care a Record $100 Million
The Cooper board chairman's $100 million gift to the New Jersey health system and its MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper is the largest in the institution's history, honoring his parents and funding Camden jobs, education, and community programs.
Oklahoma Charges Nine in OKCity Crisis Nursery Embezzlement Case
Attorney General Gentner Drummond alleges the children's charity's founder embezzled more than $50,000 in donations and moved over $200,000 through Venmo and Cash App, as nine defendants face racketeering, embezzlement, and charitable solicitation fraud charges.
Jeff Green's DataPhilanthropy Gives $8.5 Million to Ventura County Food Bank Campaign
The lead gift from The Trade Desk founder Jeff Green's family foundation puts Food Share of Ventura County within $4.5 million of its $50 million goal for an 85,000-square-foot food bank set to double the county's hunger-relief capacity.
Global hunger fell to 645 million, lawmakers introduced an AI kill switch, and a judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement. Over 60,000 meals.
WYDE Weekly: the UN's third straight drop in global hunger to 645 million, the AI Kill Switch and FRONTIER oversight bills, a judge's approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement, a record 55,362 schools serving free meals, and a GAO finding of up to $521 billion in yearly federal fraud.
T. Denny Sanford, Who Gave Away More Than $4 Billion, Dies at 90
T. Denny Sanford, the First Premier Bank billionaire who said he wanted to die broke and gave more than $4 billion to health care, children's causes, and research, has died at 90, leaving a debate about the give-it-all-away model of philanthropy.
Georgia Tech Raises a Record $415 Million and Pushes Its Campaign Past $2 Billion
Georgia Tech raised more than $415 million in fiscal 2026, a record year that pushed its Transforming Tomorrow campaign past its $2 billion goal 18 months early.
Jensen and Lori Huang Give Vanderbilt $75 Million for a New San Francisco Arts College
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Lori Huang gave Vanderbilt University $75 million to launch a San Francisco college of art, architecture and design, replacing the shuttered California College of the Arts.
A Social Media Plea Restocks a New Jersey Food Bank That Ran Out of Food
Angels Community Outreach in Pitman, New Jersey turned families away after running out of food, then a single social media plea refilled its shelves within hours as pantry demand keeps rising.
John and Ann Tickle Give Ballad Health $25 Million, the Largest Gift in the System's History
The Bristol philanthropists' $25 million commitment through Ballad Health Foundation is the largest single gift ever received by the 20-hospital Appalachian rural health system
Give 716 Raises a Record $1.8 Million for More Than 600 Western New York Charities
The Buffalo Bills and Sabres foundations' sixth annual giving day topped last year's record, with donations flowing to more than 600 local nonprofits in just over 24 hours
WyoGives 2026 Raises a Record $6.46 Million for 514 Wyoming Nonprofits
Wyoming's statewide 24-hour giving day set a new record with $6,465,075 in online donations from more than 10,000 donors, topping the 2025 record of about $5.75 million
