Gates-Led Energy Fund Adding Start-Ups Fighting Climate Change: Daily News Roundup

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Bill Gates-Led $1 Billion Energy Fund Is Expanding Its Portfolio of Start-Ups Fighting Climate Change (Quartz)

Memorial Sloan Cancer Center Switches Focus on Fundraising as Problems Mount (New York Times and ProPublica)

Obama Foundation Spent Nearly $12 Million on International Summit, $5 Million on Architects (Chicago Tribune)

San Francisco Government Proposes Raising Minimum Wage to $17 for Nonprofit, Elderly Care Workers (San Francisco Examiner)

‘The Smithsonian Could Do More and Should Do More,’ Says Advocate for a Latino Museum (Washington Post). Related advice: See a Chronicle toolkit to help nonprofits advance diversity and inclusion at their organizations.

About Gifts and Giving

Why Nonprofits Should Be Courting Entrepreneurs as Donors (Fast Company). Read the Chronicle’s coverage of the survey that is the basis for the column.

A $25 Million Gift to U. of Virginia Will Build a Bioscience and Business Building (Bloomberg)

Salesforce Foundation Announces $18 Million to Bay Area Causes (San Francisco Chronicle)

Humana Gives U. of Houston $15 Million for New Medical School and Others (Houston Business Journal)

Saint Louis Public Schools Receive $6.5 Million in Grants and Gifts (St. Louis Business Journal)

Margot and Ross Perot’s $5 Million Gift Will Help Fund Museum (Dallas Morning News)

Wikimedia Gets New $1 Million Backing From Amazon (CNET)