Updates on 5 Key Gates Foundation Programs
The foundation’s plans for nutrition, higher education, early-childhood learning, and other efforts.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Donors Likely to Give Less if They Stand to Benefit
A university study found that millionaires tend to be more generous when a gift is an act of pure charity.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Have Museum — Will Travel: Bringing Artwork to the People
Three museums are installing replicas of iconic paintings around their cities to the surprise and delight of residents.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
‘We Didn’t Come Over on the Mayflower’: Uniting 2 Worlds
The New York financier Oscar Tang and his wife, Agnes Hsu-Tang, are motivated by their identity as Chinese-Americans.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Wooing Wealthy Donors With an ‘IPO Road Show’
An entrepreneur debuts a business-style worldwide tour to pitch nonprofits to the newly wealthy.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Donor-Advised Fund Holders Favor Short-Term Charity Needs, Study Says
Women were significantly more likely than men to have established bequests and to have a formal plan for their philanthropy, according to Fidelity Charitable.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
New CEOs for EARN, Moyer Foundation, and AIDS Charity
Among other nonprofits with notable personnel changes: Center for Effective Philanthropy and Lambda Legal.
By anais.strickland
Contributor
Analysts Say Group’s Planned Parenthood Videos Were Altered
A review commissioned by Planned Parenthood of an anti-abortion group’s undercover videos targeting the women’s health nonprofit for its handling of fetal tissue concludes that the recordings were manipulated and unreliable as evidence for official inquiries, The New York Times writes.
Colleges Weigh Money and Values When Donors Want to Endow Chairs
The Chronicle of Higher Education looks at how universities weigh donor offers to endow faculty chairs in light of controversies over professorships named for divisive figures.
Teach for America Debate Sharpens as Education Corps Shrinks
The teacher-training corps is going into the new school year with a much smaller cohort of new members than two years ago, a trend for which critics of the controversial nonprofit are taking credit, The Daily Beast writes.