Billionaire Is Devoting $100 Million to Curbing Drug Prices: Daily News Roundup
October 22, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
Top News
A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry is Rattled (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
San Francisco Tech Leaders Brawl Over Tax Proposal to Aid Homeless (New York Times)
In Admissions, Harvard Favors Those Who Fund It, Emails Show (Harvard Crimson)
Jewish Charity With Hollywood Ties Accused of Fraud (Hollywood Reporter)
Nonprofits and Sexual Abuse
Liberian Government Launches Investigation Into ‘More Than Me’ After Rape Allegations (Reuters)
Esteemed Doctor Said to Have Sexually Abused Children at Rockefeller U. Hospital While Officials Knew (New York Times)
Philanthropy Under Scrutiny
The University of Nike: How Phil Knight Changed U. of Oregon Forever (Pacific Standard)
Are Zuckerberg, Carnegie, and the Kochs So Different? Researcher Writes ‘Philanthropists Will Not Save Us’ (Public Books)
‘More Than Me’ Scandal: The World Turns a Blind Eye When Foreign ‘Do-Gooders’ Do Bad (Bright Magazine)
More News
Obama Foundation Releases Secret Bids for Presidential Center After Lawsuit Pressure (Chicago Sun-Times)
Hershey School Parents Sue Charity, Alleging They Were Forced to Attend Religious Events and that the Charity Retaliated (Philadelphia Inquirer)
How Generational Divides Affect Family Foundations (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
A 9-Year-Old Girl Figured Out a Brilliant Way to Sell Her Girl Scout Cookies (Quartz)
