Diversity Slowly Takes Hold on N.Y.’s Elite Cultural Boards
An emerging class of African-American leaders in business and academia is making inroads in the overwhelmingly white upper reaches of the city’s major arts institutions, writes The New York Times.
Falling Out Over Fundraising Wracks Small Pa. College
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania has moved to cut ties with its nonprofit fundraising arm amid an acrimonious dispute over giving, deficits, and donor disclosure, The Philadelphia Inquirer writes.
Road to Hershey Trust Deal Paved With ‘Toxic’ Board Battles
A New York Times business column traces the web of financial deals and board disputes that brought on last week’s agreement with Pennsylvania regulators to reform governance at the $12 billion charity that controls the Hershey Company.
Walters Art Museum Adds Investing to Diversity Push
The Baltimore institution is bringing its endowment into a larger diversity effort, hiring four minority- or women-owned financial firms to manage portions of its $116 million portfolio, reports The Baltimore Sun.
Foundations Ask Public for Messages of Hope in Major Newspaper Buy
Presidents of the grant-making organizations want to counteract the “feelings of sorrow and discord” resulting from recent killings of both unarmed African-American citizens and police officers.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
NPower and Yellowstone Park Foundation Get New Leaders
Also, Zelda Fichandler, co-founder of Washington’s Arena Stage and a pioneer in the national regional-theater movement, has died at age 91.
By ANAIS STRICKLAND
Contributor
Nonprofit Leader Uses Data to Help Kids Succeed in School
Tiffany Cooper Gueye has helped expand a national education nonprofit into a model for evaluation, with programs proven to succeed.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Donors Offer $70 Million for Mich. City to Create Foundation
Kalamazoo officials are moving forward with a proposal to take a page from philanthropy to close the city’s budget deficit, cut taxes, and fund long-delayed projects, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
Nonprofits and Mass. Towns Tussle Over Tax Proposal
The Boston Globe looks at the battle between charities and local governments in Massachusetts over a state bill that would assess levies on some nonprofit-owned real estate.
‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ Credited for Major ALS Discovery
Money raised through the viral fundraiser that swept the internet two years ago contributed to the identification of a gene that scientists have linked to diagnoses of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor report.