Elaborate Scam Aimed at Women’s March: Daily News Roundup
October 18, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
Top News
Women’s March Targeted in Elaborate Facebook Scam Run From Bangladesh (CNN)
‘Impact Investing on Steroids’: Opportunity Zones Are the Next Shiny Tax Toy for Tech Billionaires (Recode). See the Chronicle’s coverage of what could go right and wrong with Opportunity Zones.
New Data Shows Stark Gender Disparity Figures Among Top Orchestra Musicians (Quartz)
Trio of Deaccessioned Georgia O’Keeffe Paintings Could Make More Than $30 Million (Art Newspaper)
Mismanagement and a Scientology Scandal Blamed in Munich Museum Chief’s Ouster (New York Times)
About Big Donors
Inside Laurene Powell Jobs’s Big Bet on Digital Curriculum (Fast Company)
Craig Newmark, Newspaper Villain, Is Working to Save Journalism (New York Times). Plus, see a Chronicle article on Newmark.
Ideas and Innovation
Video: Nonprofit Helping Low-Income Patients Describes Itself as ‘Match.com Meets the Peace Corps’ (PBS NewsHour)
These Ore. Libraries Had to Reopen as Nonprofits With Volunteers Due to Dwindling Tax Support (New York Times)
Portland, Ore., Wanted to Shelter Every Homeless Family. The Plan Backfired but Offers Many Lessons (Seattle Times)
Women-Led Alternative to Top-Down Philanthropy Is Driving Change (News Deeply)
