April 13, 2014 at 7:43 PM
It’s been one year since Patty Stonesifer surprised the Washington nonprofit community with her appointment as head of a small charity in the District. Once the highest ranking woman at Microsoft, Stonesifer led the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as it became the world’s largest philanthropy, managing an endowment of $89 billion.
November 7, 2013 at 8:20 PM
The holiday season is beginning, which means two things: Many Americans will eat too much, and many others won’t have nearly enough.
November will be tougher than usual for the hungry because it kicked off with a brutal blow to their already- meager food budgets, ensuring that 48 million men, women and children will be even hungrier this Thanksgiving.
January 29, 2013 at 8:42 PM
Patty Stonesifer, former CEO of Gates Foundation, to lead D.C. food pantry.
May 25, 2012 at 7:57 PM
Organizers were still counting the receipts this morning, several days after 20 homes in the Washington area hosted intimate fundraising dinners for Martha’s Table and D.C. Central Kitchen. The early numbers looked good.
May 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM
In a city where the rich and influential like to see their names emblazoned on university buildings and museum wings, Frank Pearl so craved anonymity that he was regarded as the most powerful unknown man in Washington.
May 3, 2012 at 7:51 PM
Before the District’s Child and Youth Investment Trust made headlines last year in the embezzlement scandal that has landed former Council member Harry Thomas Jr. a prison sentence, it was a quietly functioning nonprofit that provided critical grant support to hundreds of youth programs across our city.
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