Alliance member Shelby White, founder of the Leon Levy Foundation, received the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. Read more here. Past Alliance members who have received the award include Fred Kavli,…
The Science Philanthropy Alliance (the "Alliance") announced that Valerie Conn will become Executive Director of the organization effective July 1, 2017. Marc Kastner will continue as President of the Alliance.…
Inside Philanthropy describes the Rita Allen Foundation's science giving program.The Rita Allen Foundation focuses its science research grantmaking on early-career scientists studying cancer, immunology, and neuroscience.
Wudan Yan discusses non-government sources of funding for scientific research, including philanthropy.
“When federal funding declines, then philanthropic funding becomes more important,” says Marc Kastner, the president of the Science Philanthropy…
Tate Williams discusses the challenges of evaluating discovery science giving, and the meetings that the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Science Philanthropy Alliance members have held to address them.
Tate Williams profiles the Simons Foundation's new Flatiron Institute, a privately-funded research center which brings "multiple disciplines into one shop, united by an emphasis on computational methods."
Marc Kastner, president of Science Philanthropy Alliance, recently wrote in a San Jose Mercury News op-ed:"With many recent high-profile announcements about science philanthropy, some may wonder if philanthropy could replace…
Eric S. Lander, president of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University and Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, write about the importance of…
Robert Kirshner, chief program officer for science at our founding member organization, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, writes about the importance of supporting science:"...science is for the long term good of…
L. Rafael Reif, president of MIT, writes about the economic impact of basic research and the important role the government plays in funding it:"Only about six percent of industry funding goes…
