JPMorgan Chase Hackers Also Hit Corporate Charity Site
Cyberthieves who breached the banking giant’s digital security targeted the website for its Corporate Challenge series of fundraising races as part of their effort to infiltrate the company’s internal network, The New York Times reports.
Coca-Cola Alters Approach in Acquiring Cause-Focused Companies
The Wall Street Journal examines the strategic partnership between Coca-Cola and organic beverage maker Honest Tea as part of a series of articles on major multinational firms’ evolving approach to teaming with mission-driven companies.
New Kennedy Center Chief: ‘We Need to Take More Risks’
Six weeks into her tenure as president of the Kennedy Center, Deborah Rutter says changes are in store at the country’s busiest arts venue, including a greater focus on living composers and artists and more informal spaces to encourage interaction with performers, The Washington Post writes.
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Pa. Congressman Hires Top Aide From Embattled Nonprofit
Rep. Chaka Fattah has hired as his chief of staff a former executive at an education organization founded by the Pennsylvania Democrat that is the subject of a federal investigation, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Nonprofits Propose High Line-Style Park for Queens
National and New York groups released plans Tuesday to turn an abandoned stretch of railway through Queens into a 3.5-mile linear park that would be the borough’s version of Manhattan’s wildly popular High Line, writes The New York Times.
Minn. Children’s Hospital Gets $25-Million Naming Gift
The donation from Minnesota Masonic Charities, the second naming gift in five years for the University of Minnesota hospital, will be used to improve patient care and advance research in areas such as neurobehavioral development and stem cell therapies for children, the Star Tribune writes.
Romneys Provide Lead Gift for Brain Research Center
Ann Romney is leading a $50-million fundraising effort for a center for the study of neurological diseases at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which she and her husband, Mitt, are seeding with a “substantial gift,” The Boston Globe and the Associated Press report.
U.S. Charity Aids North Korea’s Fight With Tuberculosis
The Eugene Bell Foundation is stepping up its work to beat back an epidemic of drug-resistant TB in North Korea, cooperating with doctors in the isolated, authoritarian country, the Associated Press reports.