Month: July 2026
Colcom Foundation’s Role in Western Pennsylvania Growth
The Pittsburgh region has benefited from three decades of grantmaking by the Colcom Foundation, an organization founded in 1996 by Cordelia Scaife May with a mission centered on conservation and sustainable population policy. Funding That Reaches Multiple Sectors Rather than concentrating its giving in a single field, the Colcom Foundation has spread grants across environmental…
Read MoreThe Engineering Mindset Behind Kelcy Warren’s Pipeline Network
Kelcy Warren did not start out as a dealmaker. He studied civil engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, training that still shows up in how he talks about Energy Transfer’s sprawling pipeline system decades later. That engineering background has translated into a habit of asking practical questions about existing assets rather than assuming…
Read MoreThe Case for Patient Capital in Clean Hydrogen Infrastructure
Clean hydrogen has attracted plenty of enthusiasm and, more recently, plenty of skepticism as production costs and infrastructure timelines have proven more difficult than early projections suggested. Yet some investors continue to see the sector as fundamentally sound, provided capital is deployed with a genuinely long time horizon. Investor Yazan Al Homsi has been one…
Read MoreKelcy Warren’s $12 Million Gift Sets Record at UT-Arlington
In May 2023, Energy Transfer‘s Executive Chairman Kelcy Warren made headlines in Texas higher education circles when he donated $12 million to the University of Texas-Arlington, a gift that stands as the largest single donation in the school’s history. The funds were designated to help build out UT-Arlington’s resource and energy engineering program. A Personal…
Read MoreThe Science Behind Dr. Andrew Jacono’s Extended Deep-Plane Facelift
Most surgical advances refine existing methods. Fewer require abandoning the logic that made those methods standard. Dr. Andrew Jacono’s extended deep-plane facelift belongs to the rarer category a technique that works not by improving what conventional facelifts do but by doing something categorically different. Anatomy as the Starting Point Conventional facelift techniques separate skin from…
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