Daily News Roundup: Komen Me. Chapter Closes as Race Giving Dwindles

Susan G. Komen Maine to Close Doors: The state affiliate of the national breast-cancer charity said steadily shrinking participation in and revenue from its signature Race for the Cure put it in financial straits, the Portland Press Herald reports. The chapter’s former executive director attributed the decline to a saturated fundraising market. Read a Chronicle article on the dwindling popularity of charity athletic events.

Men Still Dominate Leadership at Big Art Museums, Study Says: While women are nearing overall parity, holding directorships at 48 percent of U.S. art museums, they lead only 30 percent of institutions with $15 million-plus budgets and only one of the 13 largest art museums, The New York Times writes, citing research from the Association of Art Museum Directors.

Opinion: Preserve Johnson Amendment to Keep Nonprofits Nonpartisan: Repealing the restriction on political endorsements by churches and charities would plunge them into “the caustic partisanship that currently bedevils our country” and imperil their ability to solve community problems, the leaders of the National Council of Nonprofits and the Council on Foundations write in The Hill. Read a Chronicle article on the Johnson Amendment debate.

Opinion: Conservative Leader Calls for Preserving NEA: Music and art programs in low-income neighborhoods funded by the National Endowment for the Arts enhance poor children’s chances for academic success, ex-Arkansas governor and two-time Republican president candidate Mike Huckabee writes in a Washington Post column urging President Trump not to eliminate the agency, as the White House proposes.

Ga. Foundation Says It Halted Donations to Alt-Right Group in 2015: The president of the Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area said the organization stepped in to cut off a donor-advised-fund owner’s giving to white nationalist leader Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute after discovering the group’s “mission and purpose,” reports The Augusta Chronicle.

Tiny Journalism Nonprofit Backs Ambitious Reporting: Poynter profiles the Pulitzer Center, grants from which provide a lifeline for freelance reporters in conflict zones and help major outlets like The New Yorker and PBS NewsHour tackle investigative projects in an era of imploding journalism business models and cutbacks in foreign coverage.