Nonprofit Leader Shares Her Life Story to Promote Jobs for Youths
Urban Alliance CEO Eshauna Smith works to make sure low-income high-school students, many of them minorities, get opportunities like the one she had.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Hard-Fought Corporate Partnerships Yield Big Results for Farmworkers
MacArthur “genius” award winner Greg Asbed has spent years picking watermelons, making farm-labor wages — and persuading major corporations and foundations to fight abuse of field workers
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Big Gifts That Keep On Giving to Local Economies
Measuring the economic impact of giving is tricky, but if more donors were concerned about it, they’d probably give very differently than they do now, experts say.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Melinda and Bill Gates Take Aim at Trump and Hint at More U.S. Giving
The couple’s annual letter decries the president’s “America First’ approach and his behavior toward woman. It also signals more of a focus on domestic anti-poverty efforts.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Oxfam Admits Sexual Misconduct
Also, Oxfam is facing funding losses amid the growing crisis. Plus, two opinion pieces on Oxfam: Its obsession with public relations has hurt its mission; and its current troubles are no reason to cut foreign aid. In other news, Kenneth Cole is pushed out as amfAR chair over Weinstein controversy; Newman’s Own avoids major tax hit; and more news and leadership changes.
Gifts Roundup: Denzel Washington Gives $1 Million for Debate Program
Plus, Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center gets $25 million, and Syracuse University lands $20 million.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Daily News Roundup: Oxfam Staff Paid Haiti Earthquake Survivors for Sex
In other news, former employees of the Cato Institute describe years of sexual harassment; the pharmaceuticals industry used an anti-addiction ally in its opioid fight; only one charity that received money from a men-only fundraising dinner where hostesses were sexually harassed has made an effort to give back the money; plus more news, big gifts, and opinion and analysis articles.
Podcast: The Impact Millennials Will Have on Philanthropy
This week’s Business of Giving podcast features the authors of Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving.
Ben Klasky to Run Giving Compass; Humane Society Has Interim Leader
Plus, a new acting chief has taken the helm at Mercy Corps Northwest, and the billionaire philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. has died at age 80.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions