Kickstarter Exceeds the NEA in Arts Funding
The federal government has never had a major role in arts funding in the U.S.—which is overwhelmingly supported by private patron spending and philanthropy. In 2014, total spending by all Read more…
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MacDowell Artist Colony
Tucked into the woods surrounding the quiet town of Peterborough, New Hampshire, there is a powerhouse of explosive creativity. The MacDowell Colony was founded in 1907 by the composer Edward Read more…
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Targeting Cancer’s Weak Spots in Oregon
In 2008, Penny and Phil Knight (co-founder of Oregon-based Nike Sportswear) donated $100 million to the Oregon Health and Science University to create the Knight Cancer Institute. The university’s prior Read more…
Anti-cancer Encyclopedia
One out of every two American men, and one out of three women, will be diagnosed with cancer in his or her lifetime. In 2012, the Broad Institute (see 2003 Read more…
Malaria Vaccine
Malaria remains one of the most intractable diseases in the developing world, killing one million people a year and damaging the economic productivity of many more. Large resources have already Read more…
Top Cancer Center and a Medical Empire in Houston
The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center lies at the heart of the remarkable Texas Medical Center, which has become by far the world’s largest complex for healing the sick. The Read more…
Dental Therapy
Tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease, with recent research suggesting it can lead to a wide variety of other health problems. Even though tooth decay is a Read more…
Bridging Elderly Patients from Hospital to Home
Research has shown that one third of Medicare patients who leave a hospital will be readmitted within 90 days, and that a large portion of these rehospitalizations are unnecessary, due Read more…
Pursuing Therapies from Stem Cells
Back in 2008, South Dakota businessman Denny Sanford gave $80 million to bolster the Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in San Diego. In 2013, Sanford donated an additional $100 million to Read more…
Big Investment in Biological Engineering
The founder of a firm that makes many of the plates and screws used to repair broken bones, sold to Johnson & Johnson for $20 billion, gave $125 million in Read more…
Koch Cancer Institute at MIT
Industrialist David Koch is one of the most active medical philanthropists in American history. He currently sits on about a dozen hospital boards. He has provided $30 million for cancer Read more…
Healing the Upper Midwest
The business triumphs of Denny Sanford allowed him to retire to Florida at age 45—but he was soon itchy and returned to the upper Midwest where he had spent his Read more…
Nothing but Nets Campaign
Sportswriter Rick Reilly first learned about malaria’s toll in Africa from a BBC documentary. He was struck by the film’s rhetorical question: “Did you know that every day 3,000 children in Africa Read more…
Starr Foundation Builds Research Collaboratives
Financier Cornelius Vander Starr was an active but quiet philanthropist. His Starr Foundation, established in 1955, also maintains a low profile, though it has given away nearly $3 billion during Read more…
Montana Meth Project
Early in the new millennium, Montana was one of the top ten states in methamphetamine usage. Fully 53 percent of kids in foster care were there because of meth, 50 Read more…
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
One of the most effective ways to stem disease is early detection. Access to diagnostic tests remains a significant challenge for developing countries, in part because of the high cost Read more…
Agitating for Faster Cures
FasterCures, founded in 2003 with funding from the Sumner Redstone Charitable Foundation, Milken Family Foundation, and other donors, is a nonprofit that chips away at practical obstacles that slow medical Read more…
Boosting Electronic Health Records
Electronic health records that are consistent, interchangeable, and accessible by consumers and health professionals from anywhere will be essential to many future advances in health care, including medicine that is Read more…
Systems Biology is Created
Systems biology is a new approach that studies complex interactions among networks of cells, tissues, and organisms, with the view that many aspects of biology and medicine cannot be understood Read more…