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Philanthropy

  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Special ReportFT Wealth: May
    French charities turn to UK philanthropists as the state retreats at home

    ‘We are where the US was 100 years ago and where the UK was 50 years ago,’ says one fundraiser in France

    Cartoon-style Mona Lisa holding a bowler hat filled with British money, framed against a pink pastel wall
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Moral Money
    Bill Gates’s $200bn giveaway challenges billionaires who ‘die rich’ Premium content

    Microsoft co-founder plans to give away ‘virtually all’ his wealth over the next 20 years

    Bill Gates
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    The Economics Show podcast28 min listen
    Bill Gates: how international development can survive the Trump presidency

    The former Microsoft CEO has $200bn to give away. Will the US help him?

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Bill Gates is giving away $200bn. Can his plans survive in the Trump era?

    The philanthropist intends to spend his fortune over the next 20 years. But government budget cuts threaten his ambitions in global health

    Montage image of Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    InterviewGates Foundation
    Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts

    Billionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045

    Bill Gates
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    FT SeriesIntroducing Phoebe Philo’s HTSI guest edit
    The Grenfell quilt that’s eight years in the making

    Textile artist Tuesday Greenidge is honouring the lives lost in the 2017 fire – one embroidered panel at a time

  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    The Art Market
    Funding London’s art schools: is this £6mn donation a blueprint for future philanthropy?

    A major gift from arts donor Peter L Kellner comes at a vital time for Goldsmiths, whose alumni include Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Steve McQueen

    A framed red painting has four neat vertical slashes in the canvas
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Climate change
    US climate philanthropies fear Trump blow from loss of tax-free status

    Chilling effect on charitable organisations comes as need for funding rises amid Trump cuts

  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Visual Arts
    Tate receives ‘transformational’ gift from real estate mogul Jorge Pérez

    The centrepiece of the multimillion-pound donation is a vast triptych by abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell

    A man with a beard stands, hands in pockets, at the top of the steps to a large colonnaded public building
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Nicholas Cullinan
    Think twice before attacking corporate sponsorship of the arts

    Activists should ask themselves what will replace the funding that is lost

    Illustration of Van Gogh’s Sunflower with orange paint spilled on it.
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    How To Give It
    Eight ways to give it this spring

    Secret ceramics, croque monsieurs and your very own Liam Gallagher

    Liam Gallagher shot in London, 2009, by Lawrence Watson, to be sold by Print Matters in aid of Rethink Mental Health
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Moral Money
    Elon Musk-backed foreign aid group GiveDirectly is hit by Doge cuts

    The nonprofit has received millions in donations from Tesla chief’s foundation

    Elon Musk wears a Doge t-shirt
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    FT charity appeal with Magic Breakfast doubles money

    Rosetrees Trust matched readers’ donations in late intervention

  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Food & Beverage
    Novo Nordisk Foundation’s obesity head works as paid adviser to chocolate maker Ferrero

    Professor Arne Astrup is also involved in project to change widely-accepted definition of ultra-processed food

    Packages of Ferrero Rocher chocolates on a store shelf
  • Saturday, 8 March, 2025
    Tefaf Maastricht 2025
    Who would want to be a museum patron in our age of scrutiny?

    Protests have led to donors’ names being scrubbed from gallery walls — but private money is needed now more than ever

  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    HTSI
    How to spend it in March 

    HTSI writers select the buzziest tables, shopping and exhibitions to kick-start spring, from Tokyo to San Francisco

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  • Saturday, 15 February, 2025
    Tristram Hunt
    Culture is a major tourist draw for the UK — let’s start charging to preserve it

    Rather than introduce paid museum entry as the Louvre plans to do, a UK hotel tax should help fund our global collections

    A woman poses in front of the glass pyramid outside the Louvre
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    Jeff Bezos
    Jeff Bezos’s $10bn Earth Fund cuts ties with climate group

    Decision to stop backing SBTi comes as Amazon founder seeks to curry favour with Donald Trump

    A montage of the Amazon logo and Jeff Bezos
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    How To Give It
    How you can help the humanitarian effort in Gaza

    And other philanthropic initiatives to support in February

    Children at the displacement camp in Gaza
  • Sunday, 19 January, 2025
    Martin Prendergast
    The UK should take a leaf from France’s book to boost arts funding

    Tax breaks for corporate sponsors can benefit the creative sector at a time of dwindling public funds

  • Thursday, 16 January, 2025
    Travelista
    The LA fires: four ways to help

    Hot meals and hotel discounts for evacuees, first-responder donations, and charities sheltering animals

    Firefighters tackle the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles on 8 January
  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    Business InsightPatrick Jenkins
    Breakfast and financial education: help us deliver this foundation

    The FT’s homegrown charity FLIC and Magic Breakfast are making a real difference for young people

    Breakfast at Lauttasaari High School in Helsinki, Finland
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Should I sign a cohabitation agreement?

    My parents are helping my partner and I to buy a property

    Photo of a happy young couple moving into their new home together
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: How to give it in 2024

    This year’s charity special looks at fresh ideas to help familiar causes

    Balineum’s Sarah Watson in the tile-maker’s clay room at Phoenix Tile Studio in the West Midlands
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Graham Tomlin
    Giving is good for everyone . . . and not just at Christmas

    Charitable donations have declined in recent years

    People take part in an annual Santa dash in Liverpool to raise money for charity
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