$30 Million Program to Expand Mental-Health Care for Low-Income New Yorkers
Connections to Care will help train workers at organizations that already deal with low-income populations to identify and help individuals facing depression, substance abuse, and other mental-health issues, The New York Times reports.
How to Benefit From Consumer Demand for Companies Doing Social Good
When you promote your nonprofit, think about the value your organization holds for those who support it — even if that value is indirect.
By perry yeatman
Contributor
Clinton Foundation, Aiming to Quiet Critics, Releases Donor Data
The disclosure follows months of criticism about foreign money and a lack of transparency during Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department and during her presidential campaign.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Mich. and N.Y. Funds to Help Foundation Donate $1.4 Billion
The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation tapped the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo to help guide grant making as it spends down assets over the next two decades, The Detroit News writes.
Feud Over Mining Mogul’s Fortune Could Yield Charity Bonanza
Australia’s richest person could contribute half her estimated $10 billion fortune to charity as part of a deal under discussion to end a bitter legal fight with her children, News Corp Australia and the Daily Mail write, citing The Australian newspaper.
Bank’s Clinton Foundation Giving Rose After State Dept. Deal
Swiss bank UBS AG significantly increased donations to the Clinton Foundation after then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped broker a 2009 settlement of the bank’s battle with U.S. regulators over disclosure of secret accounts, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Government Audit Finds Big Losses at Nonprofit Health Co-Ops
The nonprofit insurers established with federal loans under the Affordable Care Act to offer health coverage through government-run exchanges lost tens of millions of dollars last year, and most fell short of enrollment goals, the Associated Press reports, citing an audit by the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general.
We Need to Prove Impact Investing Makes a Difference
Foundations and companies should borrow evaluation techniques from nonprofits to demonstrate that their programs improve society.
By William Burckart
Contributor
‘Reverse Peace Corps’ Trains Nonprofit Leaders From Abroad
The Washington Post writes about the Atlas Service Corps, a D.C.-based organization that brings young nonprofit leaders from around the world to the United States for a year to network and develop new skills to apply in their work back home.
Justice Dept. Faults Auditing Firm on Big Brothers Big Sisters Assessment
The U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog is seeking an ethics review of PricewaterhouseCoopers over what the agency termed “extensive deficiencies” in the auditing firm’s assessment of grant compliance by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, reports Reuters.
Wall Street Still Sees Promise in Social-Impact Bonds
Major banks remain interested in so-called “pay-for-performance” financing to test new social programs, despite the plug being pulled on the first such effort in the United States, Reuters writes.
Mormon Church to Consider Severing Ties With Boy Scouts
Senior officials with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are expected to meet in August to consider severing a century-long tie with the Boy Scouts of America over the youth organization’s decision to allow openly gay employees and troop leaders, The New York Times writes.
GOP Senators Plan Vote to Bar Funding for Planned Parenthood
As an anti-abortion group released a third video on Tuesday of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the use of fetal tissue for medical research, Republican leaders said Tuesday that the Senate will vote before its August recess on ending federal funding for the women’s health organization, the Associated Press reports.
Boy Scouts Ends Ban on Gay Adults; Mormon Church Protests
The policy change, approved as expected on Monday by the Boy Scouts of America’s executive board, includes an exemption for religiously affiliated troops, but the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the biggest sponsor of scouting units, said it was nevertheless “deeply troubled” by the move, Reuters and The New York Times report.
Ex-Intel Chief Gives Unrestricted $100 Million to Caltech
The donation from Gordon Moore, co-founder of the Silicon Valley giant, and his wife, Betty, establishes a permanent endowment that California Institute of Technology officials plan to use to fund graduate-student fellowships, the university announced Monday.
Judge Rejects Citizens United Bid to Shield Donor Information
A federal court in Manhattan declined Monday to grant the conservative nonprofit an injunction against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s demand that it give officials data on big donors before fundraising in the state, Reuters reports.