Does Patrons’ Age Spell Trouble for New Private Museums?
Many of the blockbuster private museums being built by wealthy donors and collectors could face uncertain futures given their patrons’ advanced ages and potential gaps in long-term funding and legacy planning, according to an analysis by The Art Newspaper.
Wilder’s Slavery Museum Sues Over Stalled Site Sale
Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s U.S. National Slavery Museum has filed a legal complaint to force a sports company to complete its stalled purchase of the Fredericksburg, Va., site that was to have been the long-planned institution’s home, reports The Free-Lance Star. The museum is counting on the sale to clear a property-tax debt of more than $600,000 to the city of Fredericksburg and proceed with an effort to build the museum in Richmond, the state capitol.
S.F. Group Aims to Preserve Place for Artists in Tenderloin
A San Francisco nonprofit is compiling a list of diamond-in-the-rough artists in the city’s working-class Tenderloin district to define and maintain the community’s distinctive cultural assets in the face of gentrification, The New York Times writes.
Sen. Grassley Asks Red Cross to Explain Its Finances
The lawmaker is concerned about news-media reports saying its claim that 91 cents of every dollar goes to charity is wrong.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Suspected Pro-ISIS Group Hacks Calif. Aid Charity
A hacker group calling itself Team System Dz replaced Buena Park-based Giving Children Hope’s home page with a message supporting jihadist force Islamic State, the Orange County Register reports.
International Red Cross Urges U.S. Arm to Cut Tobacco Ties
The American Red Cross is under pressure from its global parent body as well as public-health activist groups to stop accepting donations from the tobacco industry, Reuters reports.
N.J. Town’s Case Targets Nonprofit Hospital’s Tax Break
A long-running court case challenging a Morristown, N.J., hospital’s property-tax exemption could have multimillion-dollar implications for nonprofit medical centers across the state, writes NJ Spotlight.
9/11 Charity Hits Goal to Pay Slain N.Y. Officers’ Mortgages
A nonprofit established to honor a firefighter killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has met an $800,000 fundraising goal to pay off home loans for slain New York policemen Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, the Associated Press writes.
At ALS Association, Fundraising Success Begets Fundraising Success
Amid the $115-million glow of the ice-bucket challenge, the nonprofit’s 2014 walk revenue climbs 45 percent, while the number of December gifts spikes 357 percent.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Study Links Corporate Giving to Increased Staff Productivity
Workers boost their productivity by up to 30 percent when given a job-related philanthropic incentive, according to new research by the University of Southampton in England.