Gates Foundation Stays Connected With Former Employees
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation uses an online network to inform “alumni” of foundation news and job opportunities, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Microsoft Co-Founder Donates $2 Million to Fight Zika
The grants from Paul Allen, who also gave money to help stop Ebola, will support mosquito control and diagnostic research, according to The Washington Post.
Gifts Roundup: $50 Million to the U. of Chicago
Other recent gifts include $10 million to Bowdoin College to study the environment and $2 million to Kosair Children’s Hospital for a cardiac ICU for children.
By ANAIS STRICKLAND
Contributor
Harvard Law Donor Redirects Gift After Campus Palestine Talk
New York-based law firm Milbank, which pledged $1 million in 2012 to sponsor student events, has asked the law school to shift the money to other purposes after it was used to support a discussion hosted by a group that favors an independent Palestine, the Associated Press writes.
Chicago Catholic Charities Seeks Budget Push From Pews
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago is calling on priests and congregants to press Illinois legislators to resolve a monthslong budget impasse that has left the state owing more than $25 million to the nonprofit, reports the Chicago Tribune.
Backlash to Planned Parenthood Study Forces Tex. Official to Resign
The Susan T. Buffet Foundation, which supports Planned Parenthood, funded the study, which was conducted in part by a state health official on taxpayer time, the Associated Press reports.
Atlanta Appeals Courts Backs Obamacare Contraceptive Rule
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Obama administration Thursday in another court test of faith charities’ objection to the Affordable Care Act provision, the Associated Press reports.
Jim Joseph Foundation Gets New CEO and Other People News
New top fundraisers hired at the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts and the Neighborhood Service Organization.
By anais.strickland
Contributor
Facebook Launches Site to Boost Nonprofits’ Use of Its Tools
The online instruction manual is part of an ongoing effort to expand charities’ use of the social-media site.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Gifts From Tech Moguls Are More About Power and Self-Interest, Say Critics
Skeptics say giving with an eye toward corporate balance sheets runs counter to the time-consuming and not-always-efficient kind of philanthropy that helps solve big problems, says The Christian Science Monitor.