Daily News Roundup: Billionaires Make Up for Harvard’s Poor Investment Returns
June 26, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
Top News
Harvard Billionaires Bail Out Alma Mater From Poor Fund Returns (Bloomberg Businessweek)
The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade (Wired)
How Sesame Street Helps Traumatized Children (Atlantic). Plus, read the Chronicle’s coverage of Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee’s $100 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation and the charities’ collaboration to help Syrian children.
States Aim to Halt Sexual Abuse of People With Intellectual Disabilities (NPR)
About Migrants, Nonprofits, and Giving: Jimmy Fallon Says He’ll Donate to Immigration Charity Raices in Trump’s Name (New York Times)
Portland Company Raises $250,000 for Raices With Jacket Sale (KATU News)
More Giving News
5 Lessons From the Failure of the Gates Foundation’s $575 Million Effective Teacher Initiative (Forbes)
Pohlad Family Foundation Focuses Its Giving on Housing Issues (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
On Poverty and Nonprofits
For a Day, I Was One of the Millions of Americans Without a Bank Account. It Was Humbling. (Los Angeles Times)
Sunrise Bank and a Nonprofit Team to Serve the Twin Cities’ ‘Unbanked’ (Pioneer-Press). Read the Chronicle’s coverage of Hope Credit Union, an award-winning charity aimed at helping people without bank accounts.
About Opioid Addiction and Nonprofits
Children’s Hospital Foundation to Administer Ken Daniels’s Fund to Battle Opioid Addiction (Crain’s Detroit Business)
Controversial Nonprofit Funded by Drug Companies Moves Into Ky. (WPFL). Plus, read the Chronicle’s coverage of nonprofit efforts to stem the opioid-addiction epidemic.
