After several years of disputes between the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Los Angeles County officials, the Carl Bean House, the only hospice and 24-hour nursing facility dedicated to AIDS patients in Los Angeles County, is closing its doors and relocating about 18 men and women to other…
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, has laid off three curators and two other department heads in a restructuring announced Thursday, reports The Washington Post. The dismissals come one month before Paul Greenhalgh begins as the new director and president of the institution. Mr. Greenhalgh…
UPDATE: BOSTON CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND ADOPTION DISPUTE
Catholic social-service groups in Massachusetts could lose millions of dollars from grant makers and other donors now that the state’s bishops have decided that gay people cannot adopt children, reports The Boston Globe. Corporations and philanthropies that support Catholic Charities, the…
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CARNEGIE HALL RECEIVES $20-MILLION
Financier donates $20-million for arts and education programs
The southern California subsidiary of Edison International is giving 50,000 trees to help the city of Irvine, Calif., convert a former Marine base into parkland, the Los Angeles Times reports. The electric-utility company owns 20,000 acres of property in the Sierra Nevada, from which it will donate…
Efficiently run social-welfare programs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip region of Palestine may have helped Hamas secure the popular support it needed to gain parliamentary seats in the January elections, the Los Angeles Times reports. Many residents of the contentious region say that Islamic…
CELEBRITIES AND CORPORATE MARKETING
Bono, frontman for the rock group U2, is joining forces with supermodel Elle MacPherson to promote a new credit card from American Express that will contribute to global-health efforts, All Headline News reports. One percent of the total amount spent on the Red Card will be donated toward battling…