Senator Aims to Block IRS Proposal on Optional Donor Data
Kansas Republican Pat Roberts has introduced legislation to block a planned Internal Revenue Service regulation that would allow charities to submit contributors’ Social Security numbers to substantiate donations for tax purposes, Accounting Today reports.
Finance Controversy Hits Giving to State Charity Drive in Fla.
Florida state employees rescinded donations totaling more than $172,000 to the workplace charity campaign amid media reports that more than half the money raised goes to a for-profit management company, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
Trump Foundation Reduces Giving
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has not made a contribution to his charitable foundation in several years, and the organization’s grant making last year was its lowest since 2003, according to the New York Post.
Gifts Roundup: U. of Iowa Gets $25 Million; Kirk Douglas Gives $15 Million
The actor’s donation will go to a senior-care facility. Other notable gifts include $10 million to UCLA from the “Blue Bloods” executive director Leonard Goldberg.
Yale Scholar Releases First Four ‘Impact Audits’ in New Bid to Identify What Works
Dean Karlan, an economics professor who has influenced how governments and nonprofits fight poverty, has started a new venture to evaluate results.
By MARC GUNTHER
Contributor
New Leaders at the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the Poetry Foundation
Other personnel changes announced at Proteus Fund and the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
By ANAIS STRICKLAND
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White Powder in Mail Prompts Evacuation at Muslim Nonprofit in D.C.
Employees were cleared from the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Thursday after receiving a suspicious letter that contained a hate message and a substance determined from a preliminary investigation not to be dangerous, reports The Washington Post.
Migrant Crisis Draws Wave of Volunteers to Greek Island
Hundreds of volunteers are flocking to Lesbos, a major arrival point for Syrians fleeing their country’s bloody civil conflict, causing some tension with established aid agencies, The Wall Street Journal writes.
More Religious Colleges Get Waivers From Discrimination Law
A growing number of faith-affiliated colleges and universities are seeking exemptions from Title IX, the 1972 federal law barring discrimination on the basis of sex in education, as a result of changing legal and social mores on sexuality and gender identity, reports The New York Times.
Ex-Head of Jared Fogle Charity Gets 27 Years for Child Porn
Russell Taylor, former executive director of the Jared Foundation, was sentenced Thursday to 27 years in federal prison for producing sexual images of minors that he shared with Jared Fogle, the former pitchman for Subway who founded the nonprofit, reports the Associated Press.