Prize Created to Promote Democracy in Africa
Foundation will award $5-million prize to African leaders
Hospital Appeals Property-Tax Ruling
Nonprofit hospital fights to retain its property-tax exemption
Gates Foundation CEO Looks Ahead
Patty Stonesifer, chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, fielded questions on Monday from other charity officials about how the foundation will use the approximately $31-billion that Warren Buffett pledged to the foundation in July, The Wall Street Journal reports. At the annual…
W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, announced on Thursday that he would step down from his post a year from now, The Washington Post reports. Mr. West, a historian and lawyer who is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, has…
Obituary: Sally Lilienthal, Peace Activist
Sally Lilienthal, a sculptor who founded the Ploughshares Fund, a San Francisco foundation whose goal is the prevention of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, died this week at the age of 87, The Washington Post reports. Ms. Lilienthal founded the organization in 1981 during the cold war.…
Watchdog Group Says Kansas Churches Broke Electioneering Law
Watchdog group accuses Kansas churches of politicking
Some Foreign Charities in Russia Allowed to Resume
Some foreign charities in Russia allowed to resume operations
Fund for London Bombings Victims Shuts Down
The London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund, a charity set up to help the victims and families of the 2005 terrorist attacks in London, has closed its doors, reports Agence France-Presse. The group handed out $22-million following the attacks by four Muslim suicide bombers, which left 56 people dead…
U. of Chicago Hospitals Found to Overcrowd Children’s Wards
A state court in Illinois has ruled that two hospitals in Chicago continued to overcrowd bassinets in a unit for sick infants two years after being warned about the practice, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education. The rulings came in a lawsuit charging that Comer Children’s Hospital and Wyler’s…
Bloomberg’s Daughter Starts Charity
Georgina Bloomberg—an avid horsewoman and the 23-year-old daughter of Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York—has followed in her father’s philanthropic footsteps by establishing a charity to give used riding clothes to needy equestrians, reports The New Yorker. Her charity, the Rider’s Closet,…