ALS Pulls Request to Trademark ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’
The ALS Association has pulled an application it filed to secure trademark rights for the terms “ice bucket challenge” and “ALS ice bucket challenge,” Fortune reports.
Firms Use Charitable Activity as Recruiting Tool
Employers are increasingly offering donor and volunteer opportunities to employees as a means to recruit young talent, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Jessica Alba’s Honest Company Part of B Corporation Rise
The Honest Company, co-founded by Hollywood actress Jessica Alba, is preparing to go public, one in a rising cast of B corporations, New York magazine and the Wall Street Journal report.
Prize-Linked Savings Programs Gain Traction
Savings programs with built-in lottery-style prizes, created and sponsored by nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, are gaining traction and showing results, The New York Times reports.
New Leader Steers Ford Foundation Back Toward Familiar Ground
Darren Walker is refocusing the organization on urban issues, as well as peace and global security.
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Donors Often Overlook Benefits of Giving Appreciated Stock
As the stock market hits new highs, fundraisers are missing out if they don’t explain the tax breaks and savings on capital-gains taxes.
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ALS Association Seeks Trademark for ‘Ice-Bucket Challenge’
Citing concerns that profiteers are using the ice-bucket challenge for personal gain, the charity most closely linked to the viral fundraising phenomenon has applied to trademark the phrase, writes The Washington Post.
Howard G. Buffett Foundation Buys Rosa Parks Archive
The philanthropist disclosed Thursday that his charitable organization has purchased a collection of awards, photographs, clothes, and hundreds of other items belonging to the late civil-rights icon and plans to donate the archive to a museum or institute, the Associated Press reports.
D.C. Foundation in Fight With Landowner Over Housing Plan
A prominent Washington, D.C.-area philanthropy’s plan to sell 634 acres of rural Maryland real estate for residential development has generated tension among locals, particularly the owner of a horse farm that would be surrounded by the new subdivision, The Washington Post writes.
Ex-Ill. County Official Charged With $300,000 Grant Fraud
A former Cook County, Ill., employee has been accused by federal prosecutors of using a nonprofit organization and other entities to bilk $300,000 from a grant program to aid flood victims that he managed, the Chicago Tribune writes.