Veteran Community Organizer to Lead Racial-Equity Work at Kellogg Foundation
Alvin Herring will serve as director of racial equity and community engagement at the Michigan grant maker. Also, a Western Union executive takes the reins at the company’s foundation.
By ANAIS STRICKLAND
Contributor
Inspirational-Gifts Officer? Charities Buck Tradition on Job Titles
A growing number of nonprofits are moving away from “development” and “advancement” in fundraisers’ titles. Here’s what they’re using instead.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Potential Transfer of Nonprofit Web Services Creates Concern
The company that routes traffic to websites with domain names .org and .ngo might soon change, a process affecting millions of websites.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
World Vision’s Gaza Chief Accused by Israel of Aiding Hamas
Israeli security officials arrested the aid organization’s Gaza director on allegations that he steered tens millions of dollars from the charity to the Islamist Palestinian group’s military wing, Israeli daily Haaretz and the Associated Press report.
At Colleges Riven by Unrest, Older Alumni Rethink Giving
A year of student protests over race, gender, history, and identity at university campuses has engendered a backlash among alumni donors, particularly at elite liberal-arts institutions, according to The New York Times.
ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population
The American Civil Liberties Union is retooling an ambitious, donor-funded effort to reduce incarceration across the country, shifting its emphasis from the ballot box to the courtroom, reports BuzzFeed News.
Chicago United Way Chapter Hit by Executive Exodus
Five vice presidents, two with major roles in fundraising, left the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago in the space of 10 months recently, contributing to flat revenue growth in fiscal year 2016, Crain’s Chicago Business writes.
Black Lives Matter Groups Push Grant Makers to Step Outside Their Comfort Zones
Foundations should back efforts to create “deep, systemic, and structural change” rather than supporting programs that just tweak existing power structures, says one leader of the racial-justice movement.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
World Vision Donor Learns Story Behind His ‘Sponsored Child’
The New York Times looks at the intersection of a global aid charity, an individual contributor, and a Palestinian village in a human-interest story that grew out of a reporter’s chance encounter at the Sydney airport.
Roger Ailes Drops $500,000 Gift for N.Y. State Senior Center
Protests by Putnam County, N.Y., residents derailed a county proposal to turn over construction of a new elder-care center to the deposed Fox News chief’s nonprofit and name the facility after him, The Journal News of the Lower Hudson Valley reports.