Grants Roundup: Wells Fargo and Sam’s Club Back Small-Business Development
Funding from the banking and retail companies is aimed in part at assisting firms led by minorities, women, and veterans.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
10 Grant Makers Commit Nearly $125 Million to Help Flint Recover From Water Crisis
Seven funds in Michigan and three based elsewhere are joining forces to improve health, education, and the economy in the wake of the disaster.
By Alex Daniels and Rebecca Koenig
After Giving-Day Tech Failure, Kimbia to Make Amends
The company that provided the online-giving software for last week’s Give Local America will refund some fees, and the CEO will donate three months’ salary to nonprofits that participated in the event.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
U.S. Park Service Eyes Naming Rights for Corporate Donors
The director of the National Park Service has proposed expanded rules on philanthropy that would make some facilities at the country’s 411 national parks available to be named for corporate contributors, writes The Washington Post.
Ex-Flint Official Says Mayor Tried to Steer Crisis Donations to PAC
A former city administrator filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that she was terminated for looking into claims that Flint’s mayor sought to channel contributions to a charity aiding families affected by the city’s water crisis into a political fund, Reuters and the Detroit Free Press report.
Mass. Catholic School Settles Suit Over Job Pulled From Gay Man
The Boston-area man had won a court ruling that Fontbonne Academy, an all-girls faith school in Milton, Mass., illegally discriminated against him by rescinding an employment offer after he revealed that he had a same-sex spouse, reports The Boston Globe.
$20 Million Donations for Cal Poly and Carleton College
A pledge from California Polytechnic State University alumnus Bill Frost and his wife, Linda, will support a new center for research and technology, reports The Tribune of San Luis Obispo, and Carleton College announced a $20 million gift from Barbara and Wally Weitz and their children to help fund an expansion of the Minnesota campus’s performance venue.
Gates Foundation Funds Polio Vaccine in Eradication Effort
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $38 million to Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceuticals to develop a low-cost polio vaccine, Reuters reports.
Judge Rejects Penn St. Insurance Claims on Sandusky Abuse
The university sought a ruling that its insurer would be liable for all of the nearly $100 million in settlements it has paid out to 32 accusers of Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant football coach who was convicted in 2012 of serial sexual abuse of children, The New York Times writes.
N.Y. Charity Fires Executive Who Suffered Chemical Attack
The Queens-based Healing Arts Initiative said the firing of D. Alexandra Dyer, the group’s executive director, was not in retaliation for a lawsuit she filed over an attack with lye that left her badly burned and scarred, reports The New York Times.