Paul Karon

The Kavli Foundation and Wellcome Trust have joined the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support the development of open source software tools — often the unsung heroes in modern scientific research.

The Annenberg Foundation has brought in expert help to better understand how AI can be integrated into its operations in a deliberate and mission-oriented way.

A new report shows HIV-related giving continuing to fall as infection rates in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and other regions rise. Long-underserved groups, including women and girls, are disproportionately impacted.

The Gulf Futures Challenge — launched by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine through Lever for Change — aims to help the Gulf region thrive through science, engineering and medical knowledge.

Bloomberg Philanthropies' $600 million commitment more than doubles the endowments of three of the nation's four historically Black medical schools. Is a paradigm shift toward broader big-donor HBCU support underway?

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has committed $500 million over the next decade for AI-driven biomedical research. Amid broader AI fears, HHMI sees this as an area for hope.

With additional backing from Gates, Bloomberg Philanthropies is pumping more money into its decade-long project to help low- and middle-income countries collect accurate birth and death data — and act on it.

After losing their wife and mother to pancreatic cancer, entrepreneurs Emmet Stephenson and daughter Tessa Stephenson Brand gave $150 million to the City of Hope cancer research center. The goal: a cure.

The consultancy and philanthrosphere stalwart has a new program of collaborative big bets in the works. Its first tackles a global problem that's benefiting from a recent uptick in funder attention.

Gary Michelson's $120 million gift anchors UCLA's new California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, an ambitious public-private center for research and development.