United Way Aims to Put Trafficking on the 2016 Agenda
United Way Worldwide has launched a center to campaign against modern-day slavery and raise the issue’s profile on the presidential campaign trail, Thomson Reuters Foundation reports.
L.A. Advances Minimum-Wage Exemption for Job-Training Groups
A Los Angeles City Council committee approved a proposal Tuesday to temporarily shield nonprofits that help hard-to-employ residents get into the work force from an upcoming minimum-wage increase, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Jewish Charity Putting Big Estate Gift Into Israel Advocacy
The Jewish National Fund has announced plans to create a $100-million center for Israel-related advocacy and education, using a major 2013 bequest from the California home builder and Holocaust survivor John Boruchin, reports the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Obituary: Sister Nirmala Joshi, Mother Teresa’s Charity Successor
The Indian nun who followed Mother Teresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity caring for country’s poor died Tuesday at the age of 81, reports The New York Times.
Ex-CNN Host Plans Education-Focused Nonprofit News Site
Anchorwoman-turned-school reform activist Campbell Brown’s online journalism venture has received funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Walton Family Foundation, and other proponents of charter schools, writes The Wall Street Journal.
Bloomberg’s Gun-Control Group Financing Nonprofit Newsroom
Everytown for Gun Safety, a firearms-control organization backed by billionaire philanthropist and former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is preliminarily funding the Trace, a nonprofit news Web site focused on gun violence, writes The New York Times.
Influential Director Transformed a Training Ground for Young Leaders
Tricia Tchume is stepping down as national director of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network after steering the group away from a focus on climbing the traditional career ladder.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Giving Tuesday Growth Slows Sharply for Large Nonprofits, Study Says
A Blackbaud analysis found that smaller and midsize groups have been seeing bigger gains.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
D.C. Food Bank Pioneers Data-Mapping to Find Areas of Need
Using the kind of technology that has revolutionized advertising and politics, the Capital Area Food Bank has found unexpectedly high rates of hunger in the suburbs, says The Washington Post.
Inequality’s Long Shadow: Summer Hunger
A lack of innovation is why 80 percent of children eligible for the summer meals program aren’t participating.
By Bill Shore
Contributor
Tech’s No Panacea for Saving the World, Says Computer Scientist
Too many philanthropists forget the human element when employing technology to create social change, says a former Microsoft researcher.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Activists: Walmart Used Charity to Buy Support for Stores
A coalition of community and labor groups filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service on Monday accusing the Walmart Foundation of using donations to win backing for its corporate parent’s entry into major urban markets, The Washington Post and The New York Times report.
NAACP Leader Who Seemingly Passed as Black Quits Post
Rachel A. Dolezal stepped down Monday as president of the Spokane, Wash., NAACP chapter as controversy continued to swirl about the civil rights activist’s racial identity, The New York Times writes.
Obituary: Anne Nicol Gaylor, Led Major Nonbelievers’ Group
Ms. Gaylor, who co-founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation and built it into a national voice for atheists and agnostics, died Sunday at the age of 88 of complications from a fall late last month, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes.
New Mich. Law Allows Nonprofits a Faith Objection to Gay Couples Adopting
The American Civil Liberties Union quickly vowed a court challenge to the measure signed Thursday by Gov. Rick Snyder authorizing nonprofit adoption agencies that contract with the state to refuse service to same-sex couples on religious grounds, Reuters and MLive write.
N.Y. Activists Sue to Stop Diller’s $130-Million River Park
Critics of a planned 2.4-acre park on a platform over the Hudson River want the project, backed by billionaire media mogul Barry Diller, halted until it undergoes a new environmental review and gets State Legislature approval, reports The New York Times.