Obituary: Peter Hero, Guided Growth of Silicon Valley Giving
Peter deCourcy Hero, who died of cancer Sunday at age 73, is credited with catalyzing a philanthropic culture in the tech industry while serving as president of a forerunner of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Palo Alto Weekly reports.
Studies Examine Why People Give Differently Than They Invest
A quartet of academics specializing in marketing and behavior write in MarketWatch about their research comparing people’s decision making on charitable donations and investments.
Emails Show More Clinton Fund Donors Sought State Dept. Help
The latest batch of internal State Department communications released by conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch shows a pattern of Clinton Foundation supporters seeking meetings and other assistance from the agency when it was led by Hillary Clinton, reports The Washington Post.
Fundraising Curbs Might Not Cover All Clinton Charities
The Clinton Health Access Initiative, the largest of the Clinton Foundation’s subsidiary charities, might not be bound by the foundation’s pledge not to take gifts from foreign actors and corporations if Hillary Clinton is elected president, according to The Boston Globe.
Business Ties Could Present Conflicts for Big Hospitals
The burgeoning size and vast business relationships of many nonprofit hospitals pose unique challenges for the institutions’ administrators and trustees in combating appearances of impropriety, writes The Wall Street Journal.
Experts Question Ethics of Breitbart Editor’s Fundraising
Breitbart News editor and conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos raised at least $100,000 for scholarships for white men in an unethical and “possibly illegal” way, according to The Daily Beast.
Mass. Charter-School Campaign Funded by Secretive Nonprofits
A ballot initiative to expand charter schools in Massachusetts is being funded in part by nonprofits that do not have to disclose their donors, highlighting the difficulty states face in tracking political money that flows through tax-exempt “social-welfare” groups, The Boston Globe writes.
Art Critic Imagines a Trump Effect on Cultural Landscape
Philip Kennicott of The Washington Post paints a satiric but cautionary portrait of how a Donald Trump presidency could rile up forces that would censor or police speech and cut federal funding for the arts.
Network of Minorities Urges Foundations to Look in the Mirror
The newly renamed Change Philanthropy is working to make staffs, boards, and grant making more inclusive.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Gifts Roundup: Columbus Hospital Gets $15 Million From Late Publisher’s Family
Also, Auburn University, the Schmeeckle Foundation, and Nantucket Island’s hospital received $10-million donations.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor