Daily News Roundup: Charities Told Not to Accept Gifts Raised at Secretive Fundraising Event Where Women Were Allegedly Harassed
January 24, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
Top News: Focus on Sexual Harassment at Nonprofits
Men Only: Inside Secretive Charity Fundraiser Where Hostesses Are Put on Show (Financial Times)
British Charities Told to Reject Donations From ‘Men Only’ Fundraiser Where Women Were Allegedly Harassed (BuzzFeed)
Investigation: For Some Who Lived in It, Garrison Keillor’s World Wasn’t Funny (MPR) Plus: Mr. Keillor’s response to the MPR report (The Washington Post)
Big Gifts News
Hygiene and Energy Company Announces $25 Million Donation to Foundation (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Gift of $20 Million Supports Mayo Clinic Medical Building Now Under Construction (The Florida Times-Union)
Kaepernick and Snoop Dogg Donate $35,000 to Mothers Against Police Brutality (The Dallas Morning News)
International News
Bomber and Gunmen Attack Charity in Afghanistan (The Wall Street Journal — subscription)
Killing of Mother-Daughter Team Shakes Polio Fighters in Pakistan (The New York Times)
More News and Opinion
Ex-Clinton Foundation Head Donna Shalala May Be Eyeing Fla. House Seat (Politico)
Why Self-Made Billionaire Tilman Fertitta Plans on Leaving His Entire Fortune to His Children, as Opposed to Donating It (CNBC)
Opinion: JPMorgan Cloaks Business as Usual as a Do-Good Pledge. (Bloomberg). Plus, see a Chronicle opinion article on the corporate pledges that were announced after passage of the tax bill.
