Gifts Roundup: $13.5 Million for the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Calif.
Also included is a $10 million pledge to the University of Wisconsin at Madison for need-based scholarships and endowed professorships.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
U. of Wisconsin Raises $250 Million After Matched Gifts Exceed Expectations
After raising $125 million to match a $100-million pledge to the University of Wisconsin, alumni John and Tashia Morgridge boosted their original gift to $125 million, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Taubman Art Sale Means No Bequest for Detroit Museum
The Detroit Institute of Arts, which has long enjoyed support from the late billionaire philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman, will not receive a direct gift from the shopping-mall magnate’s estate but will remain a beneficiary of his foundation, the Detroit Free Press and The New York Times write.
New Film Puts the Spotlight on an Early Civil-Rights Donor
Julius Rosenwald, who made his fortune as head of Sears, Roebuck, created schools and fellowships that built a generation of black leaders in the Jim Crow era.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Research Suggests Giving Boosts Happiness and May Improve Health
A University of British Columbia psychology professor who studies human happiness told an international conference last week that charitable giving not only makes people feel better but can lower their blood pressure, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reports.
India Orders End to Foreign Funding for Greenpeace
Four months after suspending Greenpeace India’s license to collect donations from abroad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government revoked it outright, claiming the environmental activist group’s actions have undermined national interests, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal report.
Top British Charities Back New Rules on Aggressive Fundraising
As Britain weighs new restrictions on high-pressure fundraising tactics, 17 of the country’s biggest nonprofits have pledged support for regulations aimed at curbing serial phone and mail solicitation of vulnerable and elderly donors, The Guardian writes.
Athletes and Stars Back Push for U.N. Development Goals
Supporters of the United Nations’ proposed Sustainable Development Goals have launched a celebrity-studded publicity blitz aimed at winning world leaders’ backing for the anti-poverty and human-rights agenda, Thomson Reuters Foundation writes.
One Hen and MidwayUSA Foundation Get New Executive Directors
Other nonprofits with notable personnel changes include Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Portland State U. Foundation.
By ANAIS STRICKLAND
Contributor
L.A. Art Museum’s Curator to Take Charge at Miami’s Perez Art Museum
The Miami institution named Franklin Sirmans, curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as its new director, the Miami Herald reports.