A nonprofit organization that runs the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has decided not to offer a grant to a museum that has a history of racist and sexist behavior.The Smithsonian’s Center for American Indian Studies was founded in 1972 as an effort to make the American Indians’ lives better and better.But it has been
A charitable institution is an institution or group of organizations that is recognized as providing services to people by the government or other nonprofit body.You can find a list of charities that are recognized by the U.S. government or another nonprofit body in the Charities and Agencies section of this website.If you are not sure
By Sarah Mascia SmithThe Smithsonian Institute (SI) is in the midst of a big redesign that includes a new design and a revamped mission statement.The institution is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the institution and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art (SMAA), with an exhibition, The Smithsonian in America: A Legacy of America’s First Museum.The
Fiona and The Fiona Institute is a new charity set up to provide funding to charities which are in dire need of financial help.The charity, which is currently in its first phase of fundraising, will be a joint venture between The Fiona Foundation, which aims to raise $5m a year to help charity-focused causes, and
The Smithsonian’s foundation, the National Museum of American History, has been at the top of the philanthropic game for decades.The foundation’s donations made up around a third of the Smithsonian’s total in 2015, and it has been a major contributor to the National Endowment for the Humanities.The National Institutes of Health, meanwhile, has a long
Pope Francis apologized on Thursday for giving a gift to a friend of the institution he heads in a private ceremony, saying he was doing so out of a genuine concern for the poor and in order to bring attention to a humanitarian issue.Francis, who attended the ceremony at the Vatican, was addressing a group
If you are a charity that deals with child abuse, you have probably noticed that you have to file an annual report with the government.It’s not a surprise that it’s a very time consuming process.And now that a child abuser is arrested, you need to file a police report as well.In fact, this is where
By the time they’re in high school, kids in some of Italy’s poorest schools are already on the verge of becoming orphans, the head of a charity learning institute has warned.In the past year, more than 2,500 children from the Parma Children’s Institute (PCI) have been sent to orphanages by their parents for adoption, with
The Smithsonian Institution has begun hiring to fill a growing number of positions that were previously vacant, but there is still plenty of room for improvement.The institute, the world’s largest museum and the oldest continuously operating museum, has made hiring a priority in the wake of a devastating fire that killed 19 people in 2014.The
How does a Bible charity foundation work?The Institute for Biblical Culture’s mission is to “help people live in the Word of God” and the Foundation for Biblical Research’s mission “helps people understand the Bible” through its educational programs and outreach programs.Both organizations have been featured in multiple documentaries and books on the Bible.The Institute’s foundation
