Suit Alleges Drug Firm Made Gifts to Secure Medicare Money
A whistle-blower lawsuit accuses pharmaceutical company Celgene of donating to and colluding with two large patient-assistance charities to get more Medicare patients to use its drugs, in violation of a federal antikickback law, Bloomberg reports.
San Francisco Museums’ Head Casts Doubt on Reports of Exit
Bay Area philanthropist and socialite Diane “Dede” Wilsey indicated she might not give up her roles as CEO and board president of the Fine Arts Museums without a fight, according to The New York Times.
Charity Care at Pa. Hospitals Lags Behind Other States
Free care to low-income patients amounted to less than 1 percent of revenue at nearly two-thirds of Pennsylvania’s hospitals in 2014, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports, citing data that medical centers provided to the state agency that monitors health-care costs.
Obituary: Suzanne Wright, Co-Founder of Autism Speaks
Ms. Wright, whose organization advocates for the autistic and funds research into the disorder, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at age 69, reports The New York Times.
Data and the Search for Big Donors
How fundraisers crunch numbers, sift Facebook chatter, and analyze their results to learn exactly what donors want.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ideas that analysts noodle around with today could become the cutting-edge approaches of tomorrow. Here are two still largely on the drawing board.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘The Serena Williams of Fundraising’
Outgoing Stanford President John Hennessy raised billions for the university by steering clear of talking about goals in dollar terms and communicating clearly what a gift would accomplish.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
‘Development’ No More: Fundraiser Job Titles Change With the Times
From “chief progress officer” to “director of e-philanthropy,” nonprofits say they are trying to better reflect the heart of the job. Are they sowing confusion instead?
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Turkish Complaint Prompts Tex. Review of Charter Schools
Texas’s education agency is looking into the operations of nonprofit network Harmony Public Schools, which Turkey’s government links to an expatriate Muslim cleric it claims orchestrated last month’s failed coup, the Houston Chronicle and The Wall Street Journal report.
Diversity Slowly Takes Hold on N.Y.’s Elite Cultural Boards
An emerging class of African-American leaders in business and academia is making inroads in the overwhelmingly white upper reaches of the city’s major arts institutions, writes The New York Times.
Falling Out Over Fundraising Wracks Small Pa. College
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania has moved to cut ties with its nonprofit fundraising arm amid an acrimonious dispute over giving, deficits, and donor disclosure, The Philadelphia Inquirer writes.
Road to Hershey Trust Deal Paved With ‘Toxic’ Board Battles
A New York Times business column traces the web of financial deals and board disputes that brought on last week’s agreement with Pennsylvania regulators to reform governance at the $12 billion charity that controls the Hershey Company.
Opinion: Clinton Foundation Donors Backed Russian Tech Venture
Major U.S. tech companies that have contributed to the Clinton Foundation heeded calls by the Hillary Clinton-led State Department to invest in a Kremlin effort to develop a Russian equivalent of Silicon Valley, according to a Wall Street Journal column.
Walters Art Museum Adds Investing to Diversity Push
The Baltimore institution is bringing its endowment into a larger diversity effort, hiring four minority- or women-owned financial firms to manage portions of its $116 million portfolio, reports The Baltimore Sun.
How Nonprofit Workers and Leaders Can Make a Difference as Racial Tensions Flare
Talking openly among colleagues and figuring out how your mission is connected to racial justice is crucial in this summer of too much violence.
By MONISHA KAPILA
Contributor
Foundations Ask Public for Messages of Hope in Major Newspaper Buy
Presidents of the grant-making organizations want to counteract the “feelings of sorrow and discord” resulting from recent killings of both unarmed African-American citizens and police officers.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor