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An illustration from the Christian Herald showing famine-hit people in India. Courtesy of the Christian Herald Association, New York

How American Christian media promoted charity abroad

For International Day of Charity on Sept. 5, a history of how the Christian Herald mobilized Americans in the late 19th century to give millions for the relief of global suffering.
Left: Robert Smith. Right (clockwise from left): Beyonce Knowles-Carter, Jay-Z, LeBron James and Nicki Minaj. Reuters, USA Today

Could black philanthropy help solve the black student debt crisis?

A recent gift by billionaire Robert Smith to pay off the student loans of 2019 graduates of Morehouse points to the potential of America’s black elite to pay off all black students’ college loans.
One of the successful outcomes of being part of 100 Resilient Cities is Living Melbourne: our metropolitan urban forest, a newly released strategy to increase vegetation cover in the city. Shutterstock

What next after 100 Resilient Cities funding ends?

Melbourne and Sydney are members of 100 Resilient CIties, which the Rockefeller Foundation has said it will no longer fund. So what has the global network achieved? And what can we learn from this?
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce personally donated $1 million to the Yes Campaign in the 2017 plebiscite on marriage equality. David Moir/AAP

Dear baby boomers: Australian philanthrophy needs your help

Australia is about to witness the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in our history, but giving through bequests in wills is currently low.

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