Daily News Roundup: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Loses Another Charity Event

Another Charity Cancels Event at Trump Resort: The Unicorn Children’s Foundation canceled a luncheon at Mar-a-Lago, making it the 17th nonprofit to pull its fundraising event from President Trump’s Florida estate since he said August 15 that “fine people” were part of a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., writes The Washington Post. The Boca Raton charity said it did not have plans to relocate the event and would cut programs to make up for the $160,000 it had expected to raise. Read a Chronicle analysis showing nonprofits have hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake as they decide whether to hold events at Mar-a-Lago.

Girl Scouts Accuse Boy Scouts of Poaching: Facing declining membership, the Boy Scouts of America wants to attract girls to its ranks, an effort that is not sitting well with the Girl Scouts of the USA, BuzzFeed News reports. In a letter sent to the Boy Scouts board, Kathy Hopinkah Hannan, national president of the Girl Scouts, accused the boys’ group of making “disparaging and untrue remarks” about her organization’s programs.

N.Y. Arts Groups Are “Strikingly White”: Cultural organizations in New York have not succeeded in hiring enough racial minorities and attracting people of color to their boards, according to a New York Times survey. Announcing a new city cultural plan last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio told arts groups they risked losing public funding unless they acted to diversify their staffs.

U.S. Nonprofit Asked to Leave Cambodia: Amid growing anti-American sentiment in the country, the Foreign Ministry ordered the National Democratic Institute, which works to strengthen democratic institutions, to cease operations in Cambodia, according to a Reuters report. Foreign staff of the nonprofit were ordered to leave Cambodia within a week.

George Clooney Responds to Charlottesville Rally With $1 Million Gift: The actor and his wife, human-rights lawyer Amal Clooney, cited last week’s demonstrations by hate groups in the Virginia city in announcing a $1 million gift to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Time reports. They made the gift through their Clooney Foundation for Justice. See The Chronicle’s database of gifts of $1 million or more.