Tag: Philanthropy

Climate solution: Form Energy secures $405M to speed development of long-awaited 100-hour battery

Form Energy, a company that is beginning to produce a longer-lasting alternative to lithium batteries, hit a milestone Wednesday with an announcement of...

National grantmakers bet this rural education program can scale

In 2010, Dreama Gentry met Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, a much-lauded nonprofit that supports youth from birth through college in...

As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses

LOS ANGELES -- For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los...

Takeaways from AP's report on affordable housing disappearing across the U.S.

LOS ANGELES -- While Americans continue to struggle under unrelentingly high rents, as many as 223,0000 affordable housing units across the U.S. could...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in fresh funding as it moves away from its nonprofit roots

OpenAI said Wednesday it has raised $6.6 billion in venture capital investments as part of a broader shift by the ChatGPT maker away...

This year's MacArthur 'genius' fellows include more writers, artists and storytellers

NEW YORK -- The 2024 class of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellows includes more writers, artists and storytellers than...