A nonprofit group established by Sen. Rick Santorum, a Republican from Pennsylvania, donated just 40 percent of the $1.25-million it spent over a four-year period to charitable causes and put the rest toward salaries and other overhead expenses, reports the Associated Press. Operation Good…
Princeton University has announced a plan to create a scholarship program to encourage more students to pursue careers in foreign service following a legal controversy over a gift the university received to prepare students for such careers, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Scholars in the…
Charities have spent more than $2-billion of the money they raised to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, leaving approximately $1-billion to pay for rebuilding costs, according to a survey by The Washington Post. Among the survey’s other findings: the American Red Cross has given out 84 percent of…
The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation’s fund-raising efforts have stalled amid a long search for a chief executive and staff members, a political fight over a cultural center on the site, and a pause in appeals after Hurricane Katrina, reports The New York Times. The group says it has raised…
Larry Brilliant, who was appointed last week to head Google’s philanthropic arm, is creating an organization to improve detection of bird flu and other potential global-health crises, The Wall Street Journal reports. Google, Sun Microsystems, and the Omidyar Network, among other organizations, have…
Yang Yang, a Chinese speedskater, has pledged her $10,000 bronze-medal bonus to Right to Play, a charity founded by the former Norwegian speedskating star Johann Olav Koss, reports the Associated Press. Canadian speedskater Clara Hughes donated $10,000 from her personal bank account to the charity…
Michael S. Joyce, former executive director of the John M. Olin Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, died Friday at age 63, reports National Review. At the Olin Foundation, Mr. Joyce helped start the Federalist Society and bankrolled conservative thinkers such as Allan Bloom and…
Questions raised about Boone Pickens’s control over a big gift to Oklahoma State U.
UPDATE: STEM-CELL RESEARCH GRANT
The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation has awarded $25-million to the Keck School of Medicine at the U. of Southern California, in Los Angeles, for a new stem-cell research facility, reports the Los Angeles Times.