Daily News Roundup: Senate Kills Rule to Protect Planned Parenthood Funding

Senate Votes to Let States Pull Planned Parenthood Money: Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to cancel a regulation barring states from denying federal family-planning and other health funds to providers that perform abortions, The Wall Street Journal (subscription) reports. The rule was issued by the Obama administration to counter efforts by several states to withhold federal money from Planned Parenthood.

Dustin Moskovitz-Backed Group Steers Start-Up Payouts to Charity: The Facebook co-founder’s Open Philanthropy Project is the biggest financial supporter of Founders Pledge, a London nonprofit that urges technology entrepreneurs and investors to commit to donating at least 2 percent of the proceeds when they exit their businesses, writes Business Insider. Read a Chronicle article about Mr. Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna’s giving approach.

Hungary Weighs Law That Could Shutter University Endowed by George Soros: Central European University, founded by the Hungarian-American billionaire in his native Budapest in 1991, would be required to open a U.S. campus under the proposal by Hungary’s government, which has cracked down on nonprofits with foreign support, writes The New York Times. The institution’s president said such an expansion would be financially prohibitive.

$35 Million From Bezos Family Boosts Seattle Cancer Center: The donation spearheaded by the parents of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, longtime supporters of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, will help the facility draw top researchers and develop new treatment methods, The Seattle Times reports.

Philadelphia Museum of Art Launches $525 Million Campaign for Revamp: The drive to fund a Frank Gehry-designed interior renovation, enhance programming, and swell the museum’s endowment is believed to be by far the largest campaign undertaken by a cultural institution in the city, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Opinion: Power of Humanities Warrants Federal Support: New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof argues for maintaining government funding for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in a piece highlighting the power of culture and ideas to ignite social change and spread humanitarian principals. Read a Chronicle article about Mr. Kristof and his influence on global giving.