A donation of 8bn yuan (£700m) worth of shares by the Chinese mining and supermarket tycoon Chen Fushu to create the country’s largest civil charity foundation, is ‘widely speculated’ to...
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros plans to invest up to $1 bn (£630m) in clean-energy technologies and donate $100m (£63m) to form an environmental advisory group to aid policymakers.
Philanthropist Alec Reed helped raise £50,000 for Asia-Pacific emergency appeals this week through a matched funding scheme that doubled £25,000 of donations made on theBigGive.org.uk.
A US billionaire pharmaceutical executive has donated $100m (£62.5m) to the St. John’s Health Centre in California to help it become a cutting-edge medical hub for the region, the Los...
Two new charitable investments by the Private Equity Foundation (PEF) have taken the venture philanthropy fund’s total investment in Germany to €400,000 (£365,000).
Former US President Bill Clinton announced an increase in the number and value of pledges made by attendees at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) held in New York on...
As part of a ‘first-of-its-kind’ public-private partnership to help fight poverty in New York, George Soros, chairman of the Open Society Institute, has announced a...
The biggest private donation to a medical research facility in Australian history has been made by Atlantic Philanthropies, the charitable foundation of media-shy multi-billion-dollar philanthropist ...