COMPENSATION AND THE GETTY TRUST
A state investigation of the finances of the J. Paul Getty Trust, in Los Angeles, has turned its attention to severance packages for two staff members reports The New York Times. The state is examining payments to the former director of the Getty Museum, who received $3-million when she left last…
Michael Bloomberg, New York City’s mayor, earmarked a portion of the $100-million gift he made to the Johns Hopkins University to finance stem-cell research, reports The New York Times. Mr. Bloomberg, who wanted to keep the gift anonymous, was clearly not worried about political implications from…
A Milwaukee man who stole $92,000 from his employer, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia and Alabama, was sentenced Thursday to three years and three months in prison, reports the Associated Press.
TIGER WOOD’S NEW CHARITY ENDEAVOR
A $25-million educational center in Anaheim, Calif., founded by the golfer Tiger Woods plans to serve about 3,000 kids in its first year, reports The New York Times. The Tiger Woods Learning Center, unveiled last week received $5-million from Mr. Woods. More than 70 donors also contributed. The…
Norton J. Kiritz, 70, who founded the Grantsmanship Center, a Los Angeles group that has trained at least 100,000 nonprofit and government officials how to write grant proposals, died of cancer on January 30 in Los Angeles, reports the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Kiritz developed a method for…
Chechnya has banned Danish aid organizations from working in the Muslim-dominated region after a Danish newspaper published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad, reports the Reuters Foundation’s AlertNet. The Danish Refugee Council has been among the organizations leading the effort to help refugees…