Daily News Roundup: ‘Free-Market Philanthropy’s’ Impact on Scientific Research
May 22, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
Top News
Billionaires Are Rushing Into Biotech. Inequality Is Following Them Into Science. (Salon)
Former Gates Foundation Official Will Lead Pa. State System of Higher Education (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Education Department Launches ‘Top-To-Bottom’ Review of Teachers’ Grant Program (NPR)
Nonprofits and the Law
Mo. House Committee Subpoenas Bank for Financial Records Tied to Greitens Nonprofit (McClatchy)
N.Y. Acting Attorney General Announces Settlement With Self-Dealing Trustee of a Private Foundation (States Top Leading News)
Watchdog: Miss. Nonprofit Has Lost $6.7 Million, Can’t Show It’s Aiding Inmates (Clarion Ledger)
About Sexual Misconduct
Time’s Up Leader Tina Tchen Talks What’s Next for the $21 Million Legal Defense Fund and How Celebrities Powered a Movement (Moneyish). Plus, read a Chronicle profile of Time’s Up.
More Than 3 Years After a High-Profile Male Anthropologist Was Accused of Sexual Misconduct, a Respected Female Anthropologist Will Replace Him (Scientific American)
Florentine Opera Says General Director Resigned Because of Sexual Misconduct (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
More News and Features
Rising Rents in Detroit Force Nonprofits to Move From Downtown (Detroit Free Press)
For Rural Students, Gun Control Can Be a Lonely Cause (New York Times)
J.J. Watt, the NFL Star Helping Out the Santa Fe Victims’ Families, Has a Long History of Philanthropy (CNN)
Opinion: Things Have Changed Since Sandy Hook, Thanks to Grass-Roots Campaigns (New York Times)
About Museums
More Than 500,000 People Have Visited the Museum of the Bible in Its First Six Months (Washington Post)
After Losing Millions, Can Prairiefire Dinosaur Museum in Johnson County Evolve? (Kansas City Star)
