News of Interest

The billionaire math genius gave heavily to STEM after pioneering "quant" trading at his investment management firm Renaissance Technologies. By Maria Di Mento AP Photo/Mark LennihanHedge fund manager Jim Simons supported mostly scientific and medical research, higher education, basic science, and STEM programs and scholarships. The billionaire philanthropist and math genius gave heavily to STEM […]

By M.J. Prest Middleton Place FoundationDana Hand Evans, incoming CEO of the Middleton Place Foundation, which raises money to support the Middleton Place National Historic Landmark. Plus, Legal Services NYC has named its next executive director, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools will install a new leader in August.

Visiting the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice helped grantees better understand America’s history of racial injustice while promoting empathy and awareness.By Anne Marie Burgoyne Equal Justice InitiativeSteel monuments display the names of those killed in racial-terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950 at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, […]