Wounded Warrior and Local Initiatives Support Corporation Get New Leaders
The Walton Family Foundation also welcomes a new chief, and the Rockefeller Foundation and Girl Scouts CEOs are stepping down.
By anais.strickland
Contributor
Mass. Foundation Leader Takes to Stump Against Trump
Property billionaire Bill Cummings has used events of his Cummings Foundation and other speaking engagements to rail against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, The Boston Globe writes.
Slain British Lawmaker Had Charity Career
Jo Cox, a Labour member of Parliament who was murdered Thursday, had worked for Oxfam, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Freedom Fund, The Wall Street Journal writes.
Koret Foundation Gives $50 Million to 12 California Colleges
The money will support scholarships, research, and campus security, among other programs, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Ex-Twin Cities Charity Head Pleads Guilty to Theft and Fraud
Bill Davis admitted to misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars while serving as chief executive of social-service nonprofit Community Action of Minneapolis, reports the Star Tribune.
Bill Gates’s Chicken Offer Ruffles Feathers in Bolivia
Citing its thriving poultry industry, the South American country declined to be part of the philanthropist’s project to donate tens of thousands of fowl to help poor families build economic self-sufficiency, according to Reuters.
Pentagon Official to Take Charge of Wounded Warrior Project
Michael Linnington, a 35-year military veteran, steps into the embattled charity in July.
By Timothy Sandoval and Megan O’Neil
Former Clinton Administration Official to Lead Housing Group
Maurice Jones, who served at the Treasury Department and HUD, has been named president of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Official With Media Foundation Accused of Sedition in Iran
Tehran claims Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian program coordinator for the Thomson Reuters Foundation who was arrested in Iran two months ago, plotted to overthrow the government, an allegation her husband termed “preposterous,” The New York Times reports.
Crisis Text Line Gets $23.8 Million to Expand
The counseling nonprofit is taking a page from Silicon Valley with unrestricted funding aimed at fueling rapid growth.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor