Daily News Roundup: 7 Board Members Resign From Humane Society Over CEO Staying On

Sexual-Harassment Investigations and Reports

Humane Society Keeps CEO After Sexual-Harassment Complaints; 7 Board Members Resign (Washington Post)

U. of Pennsylvania Takes Away Steve Wynn’s and Bill Cosby’s Honors. (New York Times)

Red Cross General Counsel David Meltzer Resigns Over Handling of Sexual Assault and Harassment Allegations (ProPublica)

Museums and a Performance Artist Grapple With Chuck Close’s Work (New York Times)

Austin Opera Fires Artistic Director Richard Buckley (Austin American-Statesman)

Other News

Donor-Advised Funds Take Off as Tax Law Reshapes Giving (Wall Street Journal — subscription)

U. of Michigan Pours Billions of Endowment Investments Into Funds Run by Donors’ Firms (Detroit Free Press)

United Arab Emirates Gives Johns Hopkins $50 Million for New Stroke Care Institute (Associated Press)

Opinion: The IRS Campaign Against a Pro-Israel Nonprofit (Wall Street Journal — subscription)

Philanthropy of Eagles’ Chris Long Is Making a Major Difference Off the Field (Boston Globe)

Amnesty International Official in Turkey Ordered Released but Remains in Jail (New York Times)

As Tax Deadline Looms, Newman’s Own Marks $500 Million Milestone (Connecticut Post)

Nonprofit Innovation

Space Race: How Portland, Ore., Theaters Have Banded Together to Fight Rising Rents (American Theatre)

DonorsChoose Just Funded Its 1 Millionth Project (Fast Company). Plus, read a Chronicle interview with DonorsChoose CEO Charles Best.

Was Your Seafood Caught With Slave Labor? Nonprofit Aquarium’s Database Helps Retailers Combat Abuse (NPR)

More Opinion

How a Donation of Private Land in Chile Led to Largest-Ever Expansion of a National Park System (New York Times)

Some Jobs Are Best Left to the Nonprofits, and Health Care Might Be One of Them (Bloomberg)

Global Giving and the Contradictions of Elite Philanthropy (McGill International Review)