6+ hour, 41+ min ago  (841+ words) Paul Karon | May 4, 2026 As a private equity investor, New England-based Will Thorndike followed a simple philosophy: identify promising young entrepreneurs " typically just a year or two out of business school " and provide the capital and guidance for them to start…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (934+ words) Martha Ramirez | April 29, 2026 However, a wide range of funders of all stripes, including powerhouse institutional funders like the Knight Foundation and the Mac Arthur Foundation, funder collaboratives, billionaire donors like Connie Ballmer, and smaller place-based funders, are supporting rural news....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (477+ words) Martha Ramirez | April 22, 2026 Connie Ballmer has a strong connection to both NPR and journalism as a whole. She previously sat on the board of the NPR Foundation, and she graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (930+ words) Michael Kavate | April 21, 2026 A 30-something artist is at home when he hears a roar. He rushes out into the bustle of Amsterdam's annual fair, a sketchpad and piece of chalk in hand, to the source: a caged lion, brought to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1123+ words) Martha Ramirez | April 14, 2026 The fund is operated by Public Media Company (PMC), a nonprofit organization with more than 25 years of working to strengthen local media. The Bridge Fund initially launched with $26. 5 million and was backed by the Knight Foundation, Mac…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (723+ words) Celia Wexler | April 2, 2026 Though these layoffs stood out, many other national news outlets with operations in D. C. also were shedding jobs during 2025. The journalism layoffs were a blow to the DMV " shorthand for D. C. , and its suburbs in Maryland and Northern Virginia…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (820+ words) Mike Scutari | April 1, 2026 The Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) recently released findings from a new survey finding that while performing artists grasp how technology can advance their practices, many of them lack the access, skills and safeguards to use it. This…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (226+ words) Ade Adeniji | March 25, 2026 His mother, the late Jane Walentas, a printmaker and former art director at Clinique, was a source of the family's deep passion for the arts. David Walentas, meanwhile, grew up poor in Rochester, something close to an…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (481+ words) Ade Adeniji | March 24, 2026 Brooklyn-based Jeanne Masel grew up humbly working in her parents" store, a small family business, in a household where dedicated philanthropy wasn"t really possible. But that would all later change. Masel discovered her love of art…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (353+ words) Katherine Don | March 17, 2026 The stats show that in just the first several years of the 2020s, the richest celebrities are becoming much wealthier. According to Forbes, in 2020, the top 100 highest-paid celebrities in the world earned a combined $6. 1 billion in annual income....