Clinton Foundation Reaps Success and Criticism in Haiti
The Washington Post looks at the foundation’s high-profile rebuilding work in post-earthquake Haiti, finding both successes in health and entrepreneurship programs and a growing backlash over economic development projects viewed by some as serving Clinton allies more than struggling Haitians.
Suitors Line Up for Newly Available Nonprofit Hospital Chain
Several potential buyers are interested in purchasing some or all of the six Daughters of Charity hospitals following the collapse of for-profit Prime Healthcare Services’ bid to take over the entire California chain, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Family Dollar Boss Gives $45 Million to Grow Foundation
The donation by Howard Levine, chief executive officer of the recently sold retail chain, more than triples his charitable foundation’s asset base to $65 million, reports the Charlotte Observer.
$45-Million Gift Boosts Arts at Southern Methodist U.
The Meadows Foundation, a longtime donor to Southern Methodist University, is giving another $45 million to support the campus’s Meadows Museum and Meadows School of the Arts, reports The Dallas Morning News.
Gates Fund Held $1.4 Billion in Fossil-Fuel Stock in 2013
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has identified climate change as a major global threat, had hundreds of millions of dollars invested in large oil, gas, and coal companies in 2013, The Guardian writes, citing an analysis of the $43 billion fund’s most recent available tax return.
Allies of Governments Abroad Among Clinton Foundation Donors
The foundation has taken tens of millions of dollars in contributions from foreigners with ties to their home governments, some of it donated during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state when the organization forswore fundraising directly from governments abroad, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Billionaire’s Nonprofit Will Rate Firms on Good Works
Speaking at a TED conference in Vancouver, hedge-fund mogul Paul Tudor Jones outlined plans for an effort to broaden corporations’ missions beyond profitability by soliciting public input to rank companies on the basis of social responsibility, Bloomberg writes.
Clinton Health Program Did Not ID Donors Until This Year
A Clinton Foundation spin-off organization did not disclose its donors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, apparently breaching her pledge to the Obama administration that the charity would fully reveal its funding sources while she served in the cabinet, Reuters reports.
$20 Million Contribution Boosts University Literary Center
The University of Nevada at Las Vegas will use the Rogers Foundation gift to expand programs at the college’s Black Mountain Institute writing center, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
‘Boobies Rock’ Founder Ordered to Pay $6 Million for Scams
A Colorado man, jailed in January for repeated fraudulent fundraising for breast-cancer charities, was ordered Thursday to pay some $5.9 million in penalties and reimbursements, writes the Denver Business Journal.