Categories for Philanthropy

Quant pioneer James Simons on math, money, and philanthropy

March 29, 2019 1:30 am Published by

Foundation: Simons Foundation
Quant pioneer James Simons on math, money, and philanthropy | MIT Sloan Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons shares advice from a mathematical life well-lived. To borrow a line from poetry, James Simons knows several lives worth living. As a world-renowned mathematician, Simons co-developed

A Ford man joins the family philanthropy

February 26, 2019 3:56 am Published by

Foundation: Ford Foundation
A Ford man joins the family philanthropyAnd other updates from across New York.Henry Ford III is joining the family philanthropy. The scion of the famous family is the newest board member at The Ford Foundation and the first Ford to serve as a trustee since his grandfather, Henry Ford II. The

Cultivating a more effective form of philanthropy

February 23, 2019 1:41 am Published by

Foundation: Gates Foundation
Nachiket Mor, national director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in India and former board member of the country’s Reserve Bank, traveled to Athens recently on the invitation of Greece’s Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) to deliver a lecture on the subject of health