Right Plans Hiatus in Planned Parenthood Funding Fight
A largely symbolic House vote next week to halt federal payments to the women’s health nonprofit will likely be the last on the issue until a Republican moves into the White House, conservative activists tell The New York Times.
Billionaires Weigh Changing Models for Giving Away Wealth
The world’s 1,826 billionaires, many of them relatively newly minted moguls reared in Silicon Valley, are challenging traditional foundation and donation models in ways that could redefine philanthropy, the Financial Times writes.
Prison and Climate Divestment Activists Unite on Campuses
Student activists who have mounted parallel campaigns seeking to redirect their colleges’ investments are increasingly forming alliances to ratchet up pressure on behalf of their causes, reports the Associated Press.
Twin Cities Foundations Part of Influential Civic Effort
The New York Times looks at the Itasca Project, a network of Minneapolis and St. Paul business and philanthropic leaders that over the past dozen years has a played a key behind-the-scenes role in shaping the Twin Cities’ economic agenda.
Literacy Nonprofit Expands With Book Sales and More Goods
First Book, a charity founded 23 years ago in Washington, D.C., to foster early reading among low-income children, has grown into a sophisticated national organization offering discounted as well as donated books and a growing array of supplies for disadvantaged households, The Washington Post writes.
Saudi Prince Gives $108 Million to House Egyptian Families
The donation from Prince al-Waleed bin Talal’s charitable organization will cover more than 40 percent of the estimated cost of a project to build 10,000 homes for needy families across Egypt, according to the Saudi Gazette and ArabianBusiness.com.
Congressman Seeks More Data on Red Cross Downsizing
A ranking member of the House committee that oversees the American Red Cross is pressing for more information on how layoffs and chapter closures have affected the aid organization’s disaster-response mission, ProPublica reports.
Magazine Looks In-Depth at Ford Foundation’s Transformation
The New Yorker examines how the Ford Foundation shaped its strategic shift to focus exclusively on economic and social inequality as part of a lengthy profile of foundation President Darren Walker.
Arts Giving Is a Low Priority for Data-Driven Millennial Donors
A new generation of donors committed to social causes and sympathetic to the tenets of “effective altruism” could create long-term fundraising problems for cultural nonprofits, according to The Seattle Times.
Finance Mogul’s $40 Million Gift Renames Modern Art Museum’s East Wing
Hedge-fund billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin’s name will grace the Philip Johnson-designed 1964 addition to the Museum of Modern Art, reports The New York Times.