Conservative Nonprofit Broke Campaign-Finance Law, Says FEC
A 501(c)(4) group with links to prominent conservative operatives violated federal law by failing to properly disclose details about its political advertising during the 2010 congressional elections, the Center for Public Integrity writes, citing a Federal Elections Commission report.
Head of Global Sports Charity Resigns Amid Corruption Inquiry
The president of the International Athletics Foundation, a Monaco-based charity that works to promote track-and-field events worldwide, stepped down Tuesday after French authorities targeted him in a graft investigation linked to alleged doping by Russian athletes, Reuters reports.
IRS Weighing New Option for Documenting Donations
Donors who report gifts of $250 or more to the Internal Revenue Service may get a new way to substantiate the contributions under a pending IRS rule change, according to Bloomberg BNA.
Millions Given to Calif. Youth Charity Goes to Telemarketers
California Police Youth Charities has raised some $6.9 million since 2011 with the help of celebrities and major-league sports teams but paid 83 percent of the money to professional fundraisers, the Los Angeles Post-Examiner writes.
U.S. Corporate Support Lacking for Korean War Memorial
The charity that maintains the National Mall monument to Korean War veterans says it is getting no backing from the big U.S. companies that typically support such memorials and is relying instead on Korean firms, The New York Times reports.
$20 Million Gift Aids Cancer Care at New Orleans Hospital
Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans received the donation Tuesday from Tom Benson, owner of the Saints football team and Pelicans basketball team, and his wife, Gayle, The Times-Picayune and The Advocate write.
Donors Keep Giving to Veterans Charities Even as News Coverage Wanes
Most veterans groups bring in $50,000 or less a year, but the big organizations use strategies to keep them in the public eye.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Parents of Only Daughters and 1st-Born Sons Are More Generous Donors
A new study finds that birth order and gender matter a lot, except in households headed by single parents.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Nonprofit Calif. Health Insurer Sues Executive-Turned-Critic
Blue Shield of California is accusing its former public-policy director, now an outspoken critic of the organization, of allegedly disclosing confidential company information, reports the Los Angeles Times.
World Bank: Climate Change Could Reverse Gains on Poverty
A new report from the bank warns that the effects of global warming could drive more than 100 million people into extreme poverty and threaten prospects for meeting the United Nations development goals, the Thomson Reuters Foundation writes.