Google.org Commits $1.5 Million to Combat Zika Virus
The gift is one of a small but growing list of commitments from grant makers to curb the virus’s spread. Last month philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen donated $2 million.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Trump Has Donated $100 Million, Campaign Chief Says
Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told CNN Thursday that the campaign would provide “a full accounting” of the more than $100 million he said the billionaire businessman and Republican presidential frontrunner has given to charity over the years.
Veterans Groups Have Gotten Half of $6 Million Raised by Trump
Veterans organizations have received $2.94 million of the $6 million presidential candidate Donald Trump said he raised for former service members at an Iowa rally in January, according to CNN and The Washington Post.
Goldman Sachs Seeks Input From Young Staff on Giving
The Wall Street giant announced a new philanthropic fund Thursday that will make donations based on pitches for nonprofits from the firm’s millennial employees, writes The New York Times.
Fight Over Finance and Priorities Splits Alzheimer’s Charity
Stat, a Boston Globe online affiliate that reports on health-care issues, examines the rupture at the Alzheimer’s Association, which is seeing prominent regional chapters defect in a dispute over the national organization’s push to centralize control of programs and revenue.
Federal Jobs Numbers Show Nonprofits Bucked Great Recession
While most industries downsized in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, nonprofits were staffing up, The Washington Post writes, citing new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2007 to 2012.
New Leaders at the American India Foundation and Concern Worldwide U.S.
Other personnel changes include new fundraisers at the YMCA of the USA and Princeton University.
By ANAIS STRICKLAND
Contributor
Simulating Poverty Gives Charity Supporters a Taste of Hard Times
Interactive and immersive campaigns are taking off. Just make sure they are not “cartoonish,” experts say.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Chicago Media Mogul Donates Sun-Times Stake to Charity
Michael Ferro, who earlier month became the largest shareholder in the company that owns the Chicago Tribune, has given his ownership stake in the rival Chicago Sun-Times to an as-yet-unidentified charitable trust, the Sun-Times and Crain’s Chicago Business report.
Rabbi Who Fought Extremism Wins $1.5 Million Templeton Prize
Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of Britain, was awarded the 2016 Templeton Prize Wednesday for his efforts to counter religious extremism and promote tolerance across faiths, Reuters and The New York Times write.