Forbes Magazine recently released its second annual list of “Africa’s 40 Richest” people. The feature appeared on the Forbes homepage alongside lists of “America’s Richest,” “India’s Richest,” “Thailand’s Richest,” and “China’s Richest.” For Forbes, it seems, Africa is indeed a country (it’s the only place where the richest are grouped by continent and not countries), and an increasingly wealthy one at that.

http://africasacountry.com/2013/01/15/africas-billionaires-are-a-national-elite-and-theyre-awesome/

Huge quantities of data are a blessing and a curse for many industries these days. Philanthropy is no exception.

http://blogs.barrons.com/penta/2013/01/14/philanthropys-data-boom/

It’s one thing to learn from a book. It’s another to learn from the first-hand experience of your peers. That was the thinking behind a new video series about philanthropy called “Conversations with Remarkable Givers” released today by The Bridgespan Group of Boston.

http://blogs.barrons.com/penta/2012/11/27/philanthropy-in-bite-size-bits/

Welcome to 2013, and for many charity executives, another year of hitting up donors—and potential donors—for money.

There’s nothing you won’t do for these people.

http://philanthropy.com/article/How-to-Sidestep-Donors/136557/

The latest issue of Philanthropy Management reveals that foundations are often asked by major donors to measure philanthropic results with meaningless criteria.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/01/17/4551307/philanthropy-management-magazine.html

The first college in the country was established near Boston and since then the area has been a hub for higher education. These higher education establishments build internationally renowned medical centers, research labs, cultural nodes, and innovation incubators. Here are some of the most recent college projects.

www.boston.com/yourtown/2012/09/07/redevelopment-expansion-boston-colleges/

One in four nonprofit leaders is so disappointed in fundraising at his or her organization that the last person in the job was fired, according to a new national study to be released this week.

philanthropy.com/article/Half-of-Fundraisers-in-the-Top/136577/

Andrew Carnegie, the 19th century Scottish-American industrialist, famously said: "The amassing of wealth is one of the worse species of idolatry. No idol more debasing than the worship of money…The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."

http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2013/2013/01/philanthropy?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_joy_of_giving_especially_if_youre_rich

Facebook chief executive officer Sheryl Sandberg is often thought of as the grown-up around the social media giant, attending to such mundane details as growing revenue and selling the company’s IPO to investors, allowing Mark Zuckerberg to maintain his pose as the company’s hacker-in-chief.

http://betabeat.com/2013/01/how-many-facebook-executives-did-it-take-to-manage-zucks-100-million-gift-to-newark-schools/

...Members of a new class of affluent Asian-Americans, many of whom have benefited from booms in finance and technology, are making their mark on philanthropy in the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/nyregion/as-asian-americans-numbers-grow-so-does-their-philanthropy.html?hp&_r=1&