Mass. Nonprofits Add Services as Opioid Crisis Grips State
Youth, family-services, health-care, and other organizations in Central Massachusetts are expanding or adding substance-abuse programs amid an explosion in abuse of heroin and prescription pain medications, Worcester Business Journal writes.
Arnold Foundation Gives $7 Million More to Drug-Price Fight
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is giving $7.2 million to four groups for research and pilot projects aimed at reining in prescription-drug prices, their second significant contribution to that cause in seven months, reports The Wall Street Journal.
2 More States in ‘Pay for Success’ Deals for Social Programs
The governors of Connecticut and South Carolina announced plans Tuesday to try out the burgeoning “pay for success” model in which philanthropy and businesses finance promising new social-service efforts, reports The Washington Post.
Last of 4 Cancer Charities Targeted by Regulators to Dissolve
The Cancer Fund of America, one of a quartet of family-run disease charities charged by federal and state regulators with bilking more than $180 million from donors, has tentatively agreed to shut down as part of a court settlement, CNN reports.
PETA Reaps Fundraising Gains as It Fights SeaWorld
Buoyed by greater public attention to one of its signature issues, SeaWorld’s treatment of performing orcas, the animal-welfare group reported donations of $43.5 million for the year that ended July 31, up by 30 percent from the same period two years earlier, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Nonprofit-Run ‘Pop-Up’ Clinics Buttress Health Safety Net
Large-scale, short-term, volunteer-staffed free clinics are increasingly filling a void in medical care for uninsured Americans in cities and low-income rural regions, writes The Wall Street Journal.
$25 Million From Oberndorf Fund Boosts Psychiatry Research
The University of California at San Francisco announced a $25 million commitment from the Bill and Susan Oberndorf Foundation to support research aimed at uncovering the bases of autism, schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric conditions.
Rights Group Pins Syria Charity-Hospital Bombing on Russia
Medical centers supported by international aid agencies in battleground areas of northern Syria were hit by missiles Monday in attacks the United Nations said killed at least 50 people, Reuters and The New York Times report.
Want Our Expertise? Pay Us, Grass-Roots Groups Say
Community organizers take a stand against requests to work for free.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Gifts Roundup: $10 Million Establishes Professorships at Bates College
Other recent gifts include $61 Million to the Rochester Area Community Foundation and $5 million to endow a scholarship fund at Morgan State University.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor