Top State Aide Helped Clinton Foundation Executive Search
Cheryl Mills interviewed two candidates seeking to lead the charity in 2012 while she was serving as then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, according to CNN.
Education Dept. Rejects Commercial College’s Nonprofit Bid
The agency said the Center for Excellence in Higher Education’s request for nonprofit status was aimed at avoiding strict federal regulations on for-profit colleges, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Wall Street Journal report.
Millennials Top Poll in Favoring Charitable Companies
Eighteen- to 34-year-old respondents to a Fortune survey were more concerned than older generations about working for and buying from businesses they view as giving back to society.
Lawsuits Target Private Colleges on Pension-Plan Fees
A lawyer who has pioneered legal claims over high 401(k) plan fees has turned his attention to the nonprofit world, representing employees of seven private and state universities alleging costly mismanagement of their retirement funds, The New York Times writes.
Donors Offer U.S. Wrestlers Big Paydays for Rio Gold
A group of wealthy former wrestlers who’ve made it big in finance are offering up to $500,000 to American grapplers competing at the 2016 Olympics, writes The New York Times.
Bush Foundation Official to Direct Grants for Native American Nations
Other notable hires include a fundraising chief at the University of California at Irvine and a new head of Joyce Foundation cultural programming.
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Faith-Based Tenn. Housing Group Faces Federal Investigation
The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the Memphis-based Global Ministries Foundation’s use of city financing to buy federally subsidized apartment complexes that have drawn scrutiny for their poor living conditions, according to The Commercial Appeal.
Tex. Women’s-Health Program Funds Pro-Life Activist’s Group
The Heidi Group, which offers no direct health services and is headed by an antiabortion advocate, received $1.6 million from Healthy Texas Women, one of the biggest grants from the new state program to subsidize family planning and health services for low-income women, the Austin American-Statesman writes.
$20 Million Pledge Supports Pediatric Care in Miss.
The commitment from Friends of Children’s Hospital advances a $100 million capital campaign to expand pediatric treatment facilities at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, reports The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss.
Black Lives Matter Aims to Raise $100 Million to Back Agenda
On the heels of issuing a six-point policy platform to address systemic racial inequity and injustice, the movement is ramping up organizational and fundraising work in support of the plan, Fortune writes.