Jury Finds AIDS Charity Head Swindled $330,000 from D.C.
A D.C. Superior Court jury found that former drug kingpin Cornell Jones channeled city grants to his nonprofit group, Miracle Hands, into launching a high-end strip club, The Washington Post and Washington City Paper report.
Survey: U.S. Millionaires Lag in Seeing Charity as Important
A global poll by wealth-management firm Capgemini found that high-net-worth Americans consider it less important than do their peers in many countries to use their time and resources to make a positive impact in the world, writes The New Republic.
Gaming Can Mean Big Revenue, Little Profit for Jewish Groups
Several Jewish charities have reported losing money on bingo and poker fundraising in recent years despite taking in millions of dollars in revenue on the games, according to The Jewish Daily Forward.
Nonprofit Mich. Hospital Groups Approve 3-Way Merger
The prospective union of Beaumont Health System, Oakwood Healthcare, and Botsford Hospital would create the biggest nonprofit medical network in southeastern Michigan, reports the Detroit Free Press.
Boston Brothers Get 3 Years for Attempted One Fund Scam
Branden Mattier and Domunique Grice, who tried to bilk $2-million from the charity distributing donated funds to victims of last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, will also perform community service to people suffering from lost limbs and brain injuries, The Boston Globe writes.
Mormon Activist Expelled for Advocacy On Ordaining Women
A disciplinary council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Monday excommunicated human rights attorney Kate Kelly, whose advocacy group Ordain Women vocally campaigned to end the Mormon ban on female clergy, writes The Washington Post.
Aviation Museum Inks Deal to Save ‘Rosie the Riveter’ Plant
The Yankee Air Museum in Michigan has signed an agreement to purchase part of a historic former factory associated with the army of women who built bombers during World War II, The Ann Arbor News and the Associated Press report.
Volunteers Mount Vaccine Drive After Polio Crops Up in Syria
Thousands of people recruited and deployed by nonprofit groups have inoculated some 1.4 million children in rebel-held parts of Syria this year after a polio outbreak in October, reports The Washington Post.
The Outlook for American Giving in 2014
Watch a recording from a panel discussion moderated by The Chronicle’s editor, Stacy Palmer, at the Hudson Institute to get insights about this year’s “Giving USA” report.
Rep. Dave Camp Calls for Special Prosecutor on IRS Emails
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee called Friday for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the loss of Internal Revenue Service emails that congressional Republicans say could relate to their probe of the agency’s alleged targeting of Tea Party groups, Bloomberg writes.