Johns Hopkins medical students to get free tuition after $1bn Bloomberg gift
Donation by former New York City mayor and alumnus will cover school fees for nearly all students from fall term 2024
June 2024
The big idea
The big idea: is it OK to do wrong for the greater good?
Filthy lucre is everywhere, but book festivals are an easy target for protesters’ fury
Martha Gill
May 2024
Gina Rinehart portrait saga: largesse comes at a peculiar cost for Australia’s swimmers
Melinda French Gates to step down as co-chair of Gates Foundation
April 2024
‘I’m just a lawnmower man, I’m no one special’: Nathan Stafford, the Sydney gardener with a following of millions
Andrew Carnegie’s legacy is steeped in ruthlessness
The rural network
300,000ha Queensland cattle station bought for conservation after $21m donation
Centibillionaires can learn from Carnegie
March 2024
A common condition
Calls for a global fund to tackle air pollution, killer of 7m a year
Health campaigners are voicing concerns that the issue is being neglected – despite the devastating death toll around the world
February 2024
Moment Bronx medical students find out school will be tuition-free – video
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx plans to be tuition-free for students, after a $1bn donation from former professor Dr Ruth Gottesman.
$1bn donation means students at New York medical school will pay no tuition
Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx receives huge donation from Dr Ruth Gottesman, one of its former professors
Cancer experts call on philanthropists to help fund ‘golden age’ of research
More than 50 top researchers sign letter asking for philanthropic support to transform cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment
December 2023
He’s raising millions in aid for Gaza. But still he couldn’t save his family
Hani Almadhouni works in the US to support the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. The bad news keeps coming from home in Gaza
November 2023
The problem with tech bro philanthropy
Zoe Williams
They claim altruistic motives, but billionaires’ favoured brand of do-gooding, which allows no scrutiny or pluralism, is worse than unhelpful, writes Zoe Williams
October 2023
Getting rich in order to give to the poor? The jury’s out, but it seems morally shaky
Kenan Malik
Trial of philanthropic crypto poster boy Sam Bankman-Fried exposes the flaws in a philosophy that negates the need for social change
September 2023
Mick Jagger hints at bequeathing back catalogue to charity instead of his children
Other lives
Christopher Campbell obituary
August 2023
Australian sport could look to philanthropy as athletes report financial stress
Brand aid: have Britain’s arts venues sold out to The Man?
