Mixed Blessing: Growing Need but New Support
Changes at the Greater Chicago Food Depository illustrate the kinds of issues other nonprofits will likely experience as the nation’s demographics change.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Vie for Boomers’ Planned Gifts
The graying of America spurs nonprofits to hire, hustle, and wield humor to help woo donors.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
With a new CEO and last year’s Ebola crisis behind it, America’s largest grant maker is taking a more disciplined approach to health care, education, and other causes.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Sue Desmond-Hellmann has a formidable to-do list: lead the charge in wiping out polio and malaria, prevent the spread of AIDS, reduce the number of women who die in childbirth, and slash child-mortality rates.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
About 10,000 people are turning 65 every day — a demographic shift that promises surprising change for nonprofits and fundraisers.
New CEOs for EARN, Moyer Foundation, and AIDS Charity
Among other nonprofits with notable personnel changes: Center for Effective Philanthropy and Lambda Legal.
By anais.strickland
Contributor
Colleges Weigh Money and Values When Donors Want to Endow Chairs
The Chronicle of Higher Education looks at how universities weigh donor offers to endow faculty chairs in light of controversies over professorships named for divisive figures.
Teach for America Debate Sharpens as Education Corps Shrinks
The teacher-training corps is going into the new school year with a much smaller cohort of new members than two years ago, a trend for which critics of the controversial nonprofit are taking credit, The Daily Beast writes.
St. Louis Nonprofits That Employ Disabled Protest Wage Hike
“Sheltered workshops” that train and employ developmentally disabled workers are raising concerns about an amendment to a proposed city minimum-wage increase that would extend the mandatory raise to their organizations, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Clinton Foundation Ties Crop Up in State Department Emails
Conservative advocacy group Citizens United says State Department emails it obtained dating from Hillary Clinton’s tenure suggest aides to the then-secretary blurred lines between government and Clinton Foundation business, CNN and The Washington Post report.
Gordon and Betty Moore Say Science and Measurable Results Should Guide Grants
The founders of the nation’s ninth largest foundation, who are in their 80s, offer a road map for carrying out their wishes. The fund has assets of about $6.4 billion.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Mormon Church Stays With Boy Scouts Despite End to Gay Ban
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Wednesday that it will maintain its affiliation with the youth organization, averting what could have been a major blow to the nonprofit, the Associated Press and The New York Times report.
With Cash Dwindling, Nonprofit Nev. Obamacare Co-Op to Close
Nevada Health CO-OP, one of 23 federally funded nonprofit insurers established under the Affordable Care Act to compete with traditional providers, will shut down at the end of the year after racking up tens of millions of dollars in losses, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Would-Be Portland State Donor Had Checkered Business History
A self-styled tech entrepreneur whose $100-million pledge to Portland State University earlier this month did not materialize — leading to the abrupt cancellation of a planned gala announcement — reported no assets in filing for bankruptcy four years ago, according to The Oregonian.
4th Ex-Official at N.Y. Priest’s Charity Takes Plea in Inquiry
The former chief operating officer of a New York clergyman’s social-service nonprofit pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges of filing misleading paperwork with state officials, the fourth conviction in a state investigation of the charity, the Times Union of Albany writes.
Millions Donated by Californians on Tax Returns Go Unused
Nearly $10 million donated by Californians to charity via check-off boxes on their tax returns over the past decade is sitting unspent in government accounts, and much of the money never reaches the intended target, reports the Associated Press.