Daily News Roundup: Save the Children Chair Steps Down
April 20, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
About Sexual Harassment and Charities
Save the Children Chairman Quits, Says Urgent Need to Rebuild Trust (Reuters)
Abuse Allegations Reported to Charity Commission Soar After Oxfam Scandal (Guardian)
Foundation Official Resigns Amid Sexual-Harassment Allegations (Mercury News). Plus see the Chronicle article that sparked the resignation.
Top News
Soros’s Foundation May Exit Hungary as Orban Purges Civil Groups (Bloomberg)
Artificial-Intelligence Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit (New York Times)
N.Y. Officials Join the Investigation Into a Veterans ‘Charity’ That Spends All That It Raises on Itself (Public Radio International)
New Big Donations
$25 Million Gift Aims to Ensure ‘Say Yes’ Scholarships Exist Forever (Buffalo News)
Alumna Makes $25 Million Gift to Mary Baldwin U. (Augusta Free Press)
U. of Maryland Receives $21.25 Million to Help Student Athletes (Baltimore Sun)
More News and Features
Seeking Orchestras in Tune With Their Diverse Communities (New York Times)
How Donors Often Hurt Nonprofits They Are Trying To Help (Fast Company). Plus, see more on this study from the Chronicle.
Nonprofit Formed Pay Greitens’s Legal Bills Says It Raised No Money Last Month (Kansas City Star)
State of Philanthropy Is ‘Scary’ as Funds from Atlantic Philanthropies Disappear (Irish Times)
Natalie Portman Refuses to Attend Ceremony for Israeli Million-Dollar Prize (Reuters)
