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  • OpenAI CEO Sam AltmanTech

    OpenAI may have exceeded the limits of its split corporate structure, experts say

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • Melinda French Gates smiles for the cameraSuccess

    Melinda French Gates is taking a page out of Mackenzie Scott’s playbook, launching an open call for $250 million in funding

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • This undated photo provided by the MacArthur Foundation shows MacArthur Fellow Jason Reynolds.Success

    Meet the 2024 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ recipients

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • Bill Gates is seen in the standsLeadership

    Bill Gates says Ukraine war has overshadowed issues in ‘poorest countries’

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bloomberg L.P, speaks at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Bloomberg Philanthropies said Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, it will give $600 million to the endowments of the four historically Black medical schools. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)Leadership

    Michael Bloomberg’s charity is giving $600 million to endowments of 4 historically Black medical schools

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • Michael Bloomberg in front of a microphoneSuccess

    Michael Bloomberg’s charity just donated $1 billion to John’s Hopkins University, covering full tuition for most medical students

    By Michelle Chapman, Thalia Beaty, and others
  • FILE – Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Melinda French Gates speaks at the forum Empowering Women as Entrepreneurs and Leaders during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, on April 13, 2023. French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)Leadership

    Melinda French Gates’s $1bn commitment to groups helping women and families breaks long lament that less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes there

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • Melinda French GatesSuccess

    Melinda French Gates leaves the Gates Foundation with $12.5 billion for future philanthropy efforts

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Dwayne Johnson attends the world premiere of “Black Adam” in New York on Oct. 12, 2022, left, and Oprah Winfrey appears at the Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans on June 30, 2023. The nonprofit Entertainment Industry Foundation says the People’s Fund of Maui, which was started by Winfrey and Johnson to benefit survivors of the wildfires last summer, has given away almost $60 million over six months to 8,100 adults. (AP Photo)Finance

    Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson donate more than $10m they pledged for Maui wildfire survivors as 8,100 people get checks from People’s Fund

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • MacKenzie ScottLeadership

    Billionaire MacKenzie Scott continues post-divorce giving with another $640 million to orgs that responded to an open call

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor CoFinance

    Ford chairman Bill Ford and wife Lisa will raise at least $10 million to set up permanent endowments for 10 Detroit nonprofits

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • Sam AltmanTech

    Sam Altman is ‘perverting’ OpenAI’s mission, Elon Musk claims in lawsuit

    By Kelvin Chan, Thalia Beaty, and others
  • Larry KramerEnvironment

    Outgoing philanthropy exec says this era is like the 1920s, when ‘A lot of people became fascists, and a lot of people became communists’

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • Bill GatesSuccess

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $100 million to expand economic mobility work because too many people are stuck in their careers

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
  • George SorosSuccess

    George Soros’ foundation will spend $50 million on increasing Gen Z, female civic engagement

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press