Daily News Roundup: $50 Million Gift Goes Toward Vision Research
August 24, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
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Communications Pioneer Gives $50 Million to UC San Diego for Ophthalmology Research (San Diego Union-Tribune). Viterbi has made notable gifts in the past and landed on our Philanthropy 50 ranking of the biggest donors of the year.
United Way’s CEO on Shifting a Century-Old Business Model (Harvard Business Review)
Georgia State Top Donor Gifts Potentially Inflated Stock (Georgia State Signal)
Starbucks Will Let Employees Split Their Time at a Nonprofit (CNN)
CEO of Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Has Resigned (Buffalo News)
Why Universities Need ‘Public-Interest Technology’ Courses (Wired)
News About Arts and Cultural Organizations
St. Louis Theater Groups Lands $20 Million Pledge (Broadway World)
Tuscaloosa Museum of Art to Close by the End of August (Tuscaloosa News)
Another Newseum Executive Jumps From the Sinking Ship (Washington Post)
Opinion: In Vikki Spruill, Aquarium Has the Right Woman at the Right Time (Boston Globe)
