Nonprofits Work at Polls to Smooth Voting and Rebut ‘Rigged’ Claims
Researchers and grant makers working on electoral issues acknowledge the balloting process isn’t perfect but say their data shows it is clean.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Enterprise Rent-a-Car Foundation Gives $60 Million to Food Charities
Also, Furman University received $25 million from the Duke Endowment, and JPMorgan Chase provided $20 million to community-development groups in five major cities.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: N.Y.C. Might Limit Giving to Political Nonprofits
Also, dissecting the debate over the Clinton Foundation’s Haiti projects.
American Indians Shouldn’t Get Shortchanged by Philanthropy
Because so few foundations understand or see the poverty or suffering on U.S. reservations, we give just three cents of every $100 to an important segment of society.
By KEVIN JENNINGS
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Yogurt Mogul’s Refugee Advocacy Draws Ire From Right
Also, reports on the growth of “venture philanthropy” among disease nonprofits and how Chelsea Clinton emerged as the “parent” at her family’s foundation.
Daily News Roundup: FBI Tussled Over Investigating Clinton Foundation
Also, The Washington Post summarizes its months-long examination of Donald Trump’s giving, concluding that the candidate’s philanthropy is largely a “facade.”
Daily News Roundup: Leaked Emails Say Bill Clinton Got Business Deals With Foundation Donors
Plus, the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust are supporting an effort to release bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Brazil and Colombia to fight transmission of the Zika virus.
Grants Roundup: Atlantic Gives $60 Million for Antiracism Fellowships
Also, the Dalio Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies commit $55 million for the fight to end polio, and the Harold Alfond Foundation teams with Colby College to revitalize the latter’s Maine hometown.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Silicon Valley Donors Ignore Local Needs, Report Finds
Philanthropy is burgeoning along with the region’s wealth, but the tech-sector elite pays relatively little attention to charities in its own backyard, according to a new study.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: $210 Million Gates Gift Boosts U. of Washington Health Venture
Plus, a Texas couple pledges hundreds of masterworks to Paris’s Musée d’Orsay and Prince’s house has been cleared by local officials to open as a permanent museum.
Nonprofits Saw Healthy Growth in the Past Decade
Despite the Great Recession, nonprofit wages and employment climbed during the past 10 years, according to the Urban Institute’s Nonprofit Almanac.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Clinton Camp Was Worried About Foundation’s Gender Pay Gap
Plus, low-income tenants in Los Angeles say they were misled by two affordable-housing charities about how much money they’d get to relocate from their building.
What Atlantic Philanthropies Learned Spending Billions Faster Than Any Fund in History
The foundation’s biggest successes came from large grants to build nonprofit leadership and push for policy change.
By ALISON POWELL
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Clinton Aides Sparred Over Morocco Foundation Summit
Plus, the conservative video activist purporting that Hillary Clinton supporters fomented violence at Donald Trump rallies got money from Mr. Trump’s foundation.
Daily News Roundup: Bloomberg and Arnolds Take on Big Soda in Tax Fight
Also, young heirs to some of America’s most storied family fortunes are making a Giving Pledge-style commitment to plow their wealth into impact investing.
Clinton and Trump Trade Foundation Jabs at Final Debate
Donald Trump assailed the Clinton Foundation as a “criminal enterprise,” while Hillary Clinton contrasted her family charity’s work on AIDS with the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s purchase of a painting of its namesake.