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Nigerian philanthropist Leo Stan-Ekeh, Chairman and CEO, Zinox Technologies, has taken on the challenge of empowering his country's students to be able to access IT facilities at affordable rates, and...

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Generosity appears to run in families and now scientists say they can show it is genetic.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem gave 203 people $US12 in an online task...

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Breaking from traditional practice, major charitable foundations in the US are beginning to connect the social and environmental effect of their endowment investments with their philanthropic goals, as has been...

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Family foundation giving is higher in the UK than the US relative to GDP, new research shows.

Professor Cathy Pharoah’s report, Family Foundation Philanthropy, launched at Cass...

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On May 29th 1953 two men accomplished the then greatest feat for man; they reached the summit of Mt Everest. One went on to use his new-found world-wide fame to...

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If you have young children at home you may have heard of or even played with them on Club Penguin; what you may not know is...

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The 50 most generous US philanthropists committed over $7bn to charity in 2007, which was also the first time in seven years that all five of the biggest donors were...

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Philanthropy, charitable services and social enterprise feature in Gordon Brown’s first New Year honours list.  Highlights include a CBE for philanthropist John Studzinski for “services to the arts and to...

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