Insights
February 18, 2025
For distinguished musician Charles Castleman, the Stradivarius he bought more than 40 years ago has been a friend and inspiration.…
January 27, 2025
With a philosophy that promotes restorative discipline and trauma-aware education, South Africa’s Cape Kids Foundation is providing holistic support and…
November 15, 2024
In 2021, anthropology professor Heidi Larson joined forces with public health professor Pierre Van Damme to create a new kind…
October 10, 2024
La Maison de Simon nurtures creative talent by offering multidisciplinary artists’ residencies in a converted stone barn in Normandy, France.…
October 6, 2024
In 2003, a desire to promote peace, freedom, justice, equality, economic development and environmental sustainability brought together a diverse group…
September 1, 2024
After seeing how poverty and lack of educational support led her classmates into child marriage and early pregnancy, Lydia Charles…
June 10, 2024
For three decades, a small copperplate depicting the stoning of Saint Stephen, etched by Rembrandt van Rijn in 1635, was…
May 13, 2024
For almost two decades, Brazil’s Fundo Casa Socioambiental has supported efforts to protect vital ecosystems while addressing social inequities and…
April 1, 2024
For more than two decades, Child’s Dream has used education, skills training, and access to healthcare as tools to enable…
February 19, 2024
From strokes to sudden cardiac deaths, heart rhythm disorders, also known as cardiac arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats, affect millions around…
November 9, 2023
Founded in 2011 by world-renowned Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez, Sinfonía por el Perú provides music education to underprivileged youth…
October 11, 2023
In January 2023, model, actress, and philanthropist Selita Ebanks partnered with KBFUS to raise funds for the construction of four…
May 16, 2023
Founded in 1884 in the capital city of the Buenos Aires Province in Argentina, Museo de La Plata is a…
March 21, 2023
Since 2020, Clinic+O has been working to provide access to quality and affordable healthcare for marginalized populations in Guinea through…
February 23, 2023
It’s been exactly one year since the start of the war in Ukraine, one of the largest humanitarian crises in…
December 1, 2022
The Offermann family – father, mother and son – have a tradition of sharing their resources through international charitable activity.…
October 25, 2022
Visionary leaders at the helm of two dynamic universities in Africa are deftly steering their institutions into the Global Century.…
September 12, 2022
In the wake of the tragic deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020, Change.org launched the Racial Justice…
June 1, 2022
A vibrant set of libraries is emerging in Nairobi, Kenya. Turning once segregated spaces into Palaces for The People, they…
May 2, 2022
In 1966, a young American couple moved to Paris and serendipitously began a modest art collection. Over time, Sam and…
March 3, 2022
Building on a rich history of local creativity, 32° East - Ugandan Arts Trust acts as a hub for the…
January 14, 2022
The National Archeological Museum of Florence has begun to shine again after languishing in disrepair since the Arno River flooded…
December 6, 2021
Several of our local partners in Africa are working to make self-sufficiency achievable for individuals with disabilities. Too often, families…
November 2, 2021
In normal times, the Abbe Pierre Foundation focuses on providing safe, long-term housing for the most vulnerable. In the extraordinary…
August 24, 2021
Three local nonprofits – METAdrasi, HumanRights360 and Faros – are directly caring for migrants arriving in Greece, fleeing deprivation and…
March 29, 2021
In much of the world, cultural assumptions about gender determine which jobs are appropriate for women. Jobs dominated by men…
February 5, 2021
Before World War II, Poland was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, and the country was at the…
December 4, 2020
Proximity matters in improving lives. African-led organizations are best positioned to deliver impact because their leaders are deeply rooted in…
October 5, 2020
Ambassador J. William Middendorf II has had a long and distinguished career – as a naval officer, an investment banker,…
September 11, 2020
In an age of growing media distrust, claims of fake news and rampant spread of disinformation, Lie Detectors helps young…
August 6, 2020
Tony Julius left his tiny, isolated village of Kyparissi, Greece, at the beginning of the 20th century, seeking a better…
June 8, 2020
Stephen Griffith and his wife Christine Dickey have a longstanding interest in education. After a trip to Liberia, a West…
April 24, 2020
Roughly 50 percent of the world’s camel population is found in Sudan and Somalia, where they are primarily bred for…
January 22, 2020
Over the years, Kimberly and Keith Edmunds have given generously to organizations that provide shelter, nutrition and education to some…
August 20, 2019
Wecyclers, an urban waste management start-up based in Lagos, Nigeria, received the prestigious Africa Development Prize from our Brussels-based parent…
June 6, 2019
The African Academy of Sciences (Kenya) and the Africa Research Excellence Fund (Gambia) have recently opened American friends funds at KBFUS…
May 14, 2019
Located in the heart of Florence, Italy, the 700-year-old monumental complex of Santa Croce is a great center of art and…
March 8, 2019
Georgie Badiel of Burkina Faso and Toni Garrn of Germany are two inspirational young women on similar missions. After finding…
January 29, 2019
Private investor and art collector Jeffrey Horvitz began acquiring 18th-century French drawings, paintings and sculptures in the 1980s. After three…
November 5, 2018
Why do people give back to their countries of origin after moving to the United States? For philanthropists Tarek and…
September 19, 2018
Art collector and philanthropist Paul Firos and his wife Anna-Belinda founded the Herakleidon Museum in Athens, Greece in 2004. They…
June 14, 2018
A new generation of African entrepreneurs are creating solutions with the potential to shape the future of the entire continent. …
May 18, 2018
Filmmaker Jan de Bont and his wife Trish gifted 14 original gelatin silver prints by renowned Dutch photographer Ed van…
April 19, 2018
Award-winning television producer Ene Riisna’s love for music, for her parents and for her home country are inextricably linked. With…
February 1, 2018
Through the ‘Guillaume Bastiaens Family Fund’, Guillaume Bastiaens supports two cultural heritage sites near his home town in Belgium -…
November 21, 2017
The Life-Giving Water Fund, a donor-advised fund at KBFUS, has drilled 130 water wells in rural Zambia so far, to…
August 23, 2017
The chateau’s French formal gardens have been restored to their original 18th-century glory, thanks to a generous gift to the…
June 12, 2017
Thanks to a generous gift from a New York couple, a cable car line will once again transport citizens and…
March 30, 2017
In a call for private funding, KBFUS, the Open Society Foundations and the European Programme for Integration & Migration (EPIM)…
January 18, 2017
The African Education Fund Moringa was established in 2013 as a donor-advised fund with KBFUS. Set up by an Italian-American…
September 29, 2016
Giles Constable has had a lifelong interest in medieval history. He recently donated his library of more than 10,000 books…
September 2, 2016
As African universities seek to attract more students, to support existing programs, and to expand their academic offerings, the pressure…
September 1, 2016
As shrinking government support increases pressure to seek new funding sources, senior professionals from European universities and cultural institutions talk…