Foundations

One million high school students across the U.S. who lack internet access will receive a tablet, laptop or smartphone on loan from Sprint to help them complete homework assignments, the network announced on Tuesday. The devices will serve as part of a pilot program Sprint has created to help close the gap on internet inequality.…

New York Attorney General's Office ordered the Donald J. Trump Foundation to immediately stop soliciting donations in the state last week after it determined the charity was not registered in accordance to state law. The foundation has until Oct. 15 to comply and submit necessary paperwork for 2016 and any other years it was noncompliant, according to the letter from the Office of the Attorney General, dated Sept. 30...

You’d think the Sunlight Foundation would be raring for a fight. Since its inception, in January 2006, the nonprofit has advocated for a new, digitally savvy vision of open government. It has pushed for campaign-finance reform and defended the Freedom of Information Act. It’s made services like Politiwoops, which collects and preserves tweets after politicians…

The MacArthur Foundation last week announced its 2016 MacArthur Fellows, the annual recipients of the organization's five-year "Genius" grants. Among the 23 winners? Two nonprofit leaders. Ahilan Arulanantham, director of advocacy and legal director of American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, and José Quiñonez, founder and CEO of Mission Asset Fund, will receive $625,000 grants as part of the fellowship...

David Fahrenthold, reporter for The Washington Post, has been hard at work on the Trump Foundation beat, investigating the foundation so doggedly he's become something of a thorn in Trump's side. And his latest story is a big one, detailing the $258,000 the charity spent to settle lawsuits—a violation of regulations against self-dealing. But that's not why we're here. We're here to talk about golf...

As "Star Trek" celebrates its 50th birthday, we take a look at the philanthropy of creator Gene Roddenberry’s family, including a new prize with a total of $1 million in annual awards. Any sci-fi fan (myself included) will argue to the bitter end that a successful work of speculative fiction is about so much more…

In 1838, two Jesuit priests, who served as presidents of Georgetown University, sold 272 slaves. The sale netted $115,000, or $3.3 million today, and helped pay the school's debts. On Sept. 1, Georgetown formally apologized for its role in the slave trade. The school said it would give an admissions preference to descendants of slaves owned by Maryland Jesuits, rename a pair of buildings and build a memorial. It was a nice attempt at reconciliation, but some 600 Georgetown slave descendants believe the university can do more...

For 21 years, Laurence Pagnoni has worked with and developed strategy for hundreds of nonprofits seeking U.S. foundation support. His work with one such agency, Sightsavers, and its desire to grow its U.S. foundation support, is worth closer examination...

The Bruno Manser Fund, a rainforest conservation charity based in Switzerland, wants the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to pay back millions in donations from individuals connected to a Malaysian money-laundering scandal. In an open letter published to its website, the charity called for DiCaprio to "disclose and restitute to Malaysia" any funds the foundation received from Riza Aziz and Jho Low, two key figures in the $3 billion scam...

Since Hillary Clinton began her career as a politician in 2000, she and the outside groups that support her have raised nearly $750 million in the course of her two runs for the U.S. Senate and two bids for the presidency. About a fifth of that money came from the finance, insurance and real estate…