Pro-Obamacare Group ‘Enroll America’ Sees Fundraising Decline
The national nonprofit established last year to encourage uninsured Americans to sign up for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act took in $27-million last year, a drop of more than a quarter from the year before, according to Reuters.
L.A. Utility Union to Open Nonprofits’ Books in City Deal
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an agreement Wednesday that will give officials unfettered access to the financial records of two controversial nonprofits allied with a powerful public workers’ union, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Jeff Skoll Gives $10-Million to UCLA to Boost Social-Impact Entertainment
Jeff Skoll, the former eBay president and founder of Participant Media, which produces TV programs and movies to inspire social change, has donated $10-million to the University of California at Los Angeles to endow a program dedicating to advancing entertainment and the performing arts as vehicles for social messages, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
In Wake of Wage Cuts, Met Asks Opera Stars to Take Less, Too
After winning pay cuts from its unionized workers in labor fights earlier this year, the Metropolitan Opera is asking its star solo singers to voluntarily take matching 7-percent reductions in their performance fees, writes The New York Times.
Gifts to Donor-Advised Funds Grew 24% in 2013, According to a Study
Americans put more than $17-billion into the funds, which channeled about 20 percent of their assets to charities.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
New Study Finds Unexpected Source of Giving: Young Women
Young single women who are not affiliated with a religion are far more generous than their older, secular counterparts.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Charities to Get $100-Million From ‘Simpsons’ Co-Creator
Animal-welfare and anti-hunger efforts will be prime beneficiaries of the $100-million fortune to be left by Sam Simon, a co-creator of “The Simpsons” who is in the final stages of a battle with colon cancer, the New York Daily News reports, citing an interview Mr. Simon gave to NBC News.
Maine Nonprofit Commits $20-Million to Study-Abroad Effort
The Portland-based Council on International Educational Exchange will give more than $20-million to an initiative to double the number of U.S. college students who study in foreign countries by 2020, the Portland Press Herald writes.
$5.5-Million Koons Auction Reflects New Era of Art Charity
Works by sculptor Jeff Koons commissioned specially to be sold for charity raised $5.5-million for the United Nations Foundation Sunday, heralding what The Guardian terms a new age of art-world philanthropy.
Donors Lead $12-Million Repair of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto
A group of philanthropists led by designer Diane von Furstenberg and property investor Joseph Sitt is spearheading a $12-million effort to restore Venice’s Jewish Museum and the 16th-century synagogues of the city’s Jewish quarter, The New York Times writes.