The McKnight Foundation, in Minneapolis, is embroiled in a legal battle over the will of its founder, James H. Binger, the former chairman of Honeywell who died in 2004 at age 88, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Relatives of Mr. Binger, who oversee the foundation, went to court to contest a…
A judge has frozen the assets of the Olin B. and Desta Schwab Foundation, a grant-making institution in Fort Wayne, Ind., which has a $7-million endowment, after the group’s leaders fired the paid staff, moved the group to Nevada, and purchased a $1.5-million home in Las Vegas with the foundation’s…
The American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation have sued several religious groups for using federal grant money to promote abstinence among young people, charging that their spending violates the separation…
Texas prosecutor seeks information about Texas group connected to powerful Congressman
Nonprofit organizations in Pittsburgh donated $4.56-million this week to aid their financially beleaguered city, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The Pittsburgh Public Service Foundation, which hopes to raise $13.2-million from local charities over three years, has released a list of…
MARYLAND NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION
Nonprofit groups in Maryland hope to pool their influence and raise their visibility and clout in their hometowns as well as with the state government, reports The Baltimore Sun. The Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations announced that it plans to create Voices of Maryland, an effort to…
After two years of decline, grant makers in Minnesota increased their giving by 5 percent in 2003, according to a study by the Minnesota Council on Foundations, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal reports. Nationwide in 2003 foundations and corporations decreased their giving by 0.4 percent…