Daily News Roundup: Children’s Hospital Gets $60 Million
In other news, President Trump gave $100,000 of his salary for infrastructure projects; the Intel Foundation is donating $1 million to the International Rescue Committee to teach coding skills to refugees; charitable giving makes people more attractive to others, according to a study; the Oxfam scandal widens; the 50 best workplaces for charitable giving; and more.
Daily News Roundup: How Trump’s Budget Would Affect Nonprofits and the Poor
Poor Americans would be hardest hit. Also, the plan’s food-stamp replacement; its elimination of NEA, public TV, and other cultural groups; and a bipartisan “no” to cutting aid money. In other news, an Oxfam deputy resigns over how sex claims were handled, and a whistle-blower says the charity ignored concerns; drugmakers supported groups that pushed opioid use; fact-checking Matt Damon’s clean-water promise in a Super Bowl ad; and more.
Tech Nonprofit Pursues Internet Access as ‘Fundamental Human Right’
With 40 percent of the Motor City lacking internet access, the Detroit Community Technology Project provides high-speed networks to underserved neighborhoods.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Leader Shares Her Life Story to Promote Jobs for Youths
Urban Alliance CEO Eshauna Smith works to make sure low-income high-school students, many of them minorities, get opportunities like the one she had.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Daily News Roundup: Oxfam Admits Sexual Misconduct
Also, Oxfam is facing funding losses amid the growing crisis. Plus, two opinion pieces on Oxfam: Its obsession with public relations has hurt its mission; and its current troubles are no reason to cut foreign aid. In other news, Kenneth Cole is pushed out as amfAR chair over Weinstein controversy; Newman’s Own avoids major tax hit; and more news and leadership changes.
Daily News Roundup: Oxfam Staff Paid Haiti Earthquake Survivors for Sex
In other news, former employees of the Cato Institute describe years of sexual harassment; the pharmaceuticals industry used an anti-addiction ally in its opioid fight; only one charity that received money from a men-only fundraising dinner where hostesses were sexually harassed has made an effort to give back the money; plus more news, big gifts, and opinion and analysis articles.
Surdna and Andrus Award Grants to Build Next Generation of Social-Justice Philanthropy
Twenty-one nonprofits will receive grants to build donor networks that share ideas about how to promote racial and class equity.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Daily News Roundup: Giving Plummets at USC Amid Medical-School Scandal
Donations to the University of Southern California from July to December last year were $100 million less than during the same period in 2016. In other news, women make 21 percent less than men at Wellcome Trust, Britain’s largest charity, the group says; Houston billionaires gave a medical center $25 million; and more.
Nonprofit Uses Creative Impact Investing to Stem Foreclosures
New Jersey Community Capital buys pools of troubled mortgages at a discount and then modifies the loans to help homeowners. Vacant properties or converted to affordable housing.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Daily News Roundup: Conn. May Try to Dodge Tax-Deduction Cap With Charitable Gifts
In other news, President Trump may soon nominate a tax lawyer to head the Internal Revenue Service; the new tax law would eliminate the deduction donors have been getting for prime seats at college games; Hollywood’s Time’s Up has raised $20 million; the Charles Koch Foundation has been giving millions to colleges to study criminal justice and foreign policy; and more.
Opinion: As States Seek Charitable Ways to Skirt Federal Tax Law, Philanthropy Must Watch Out
As California and other states look for ways to escape the new limits on state and local deductions, they are blurring further the lines between public and private in ways that are dangerous for the nonprofit world.
Daily News Roundup: New Tax on Nonprofit Pay Will Hit Different Hospitals Differently
How nonprofit hospitals are structured will determine how much they will owe. In other news, a former official at a charity founded by John Kerry’s daughter is facing a criminal charge for violating a conflict-of-interest law by lobbying former colleagues; Syracuse gets $20 million for a veterans project; a top investigator in the international ivory trade has been found dead; and more.
Daily News Roundup: Humane Society CEO Resigns
Wayne Pacelle stepped down after sexual-misconduct allegations, a revolt by major donors, and a threat from employees that they would walk out. In other news, the founder of a nonprofit to close Rikers Island left the organization after an accusation of misconduct; the philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. has died; hundreds of Girl Scouts are pushing to rename a Ga. bridge, now named after a segregationist, after the group’s founder; the Clinton Foundation is launching a nonprofit to help hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean; and more.
Daily News Roundup: 7 Board Members Resign From Humane Society Over CEO Staying On
In other news, the University of Pennsylvania has stripped honors from Steve Wynn and Bill Cosby over accusations of sexual misconduct; the Red Cross general counsel has resigned over handling of sexual assault and harassment allegations; the new tax law could alter how people give to charity for years; the University of Michigan invested billions in funds run by donors’ firms; and much more about big gifts and nonprofit innovation and how nonprofits are dealing with sexual impropriety.
Podcast: Bringing 2 Million Domestic Workers Out of the Shadows
In this week’s Business of Giving, MacArthur Genius Award winner Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, discusses the struggles of nannies, house cleaners and other undervalued workers.
Daily News Roundup: Humane Society Donors Call for CEO to Be Fired
Some donors are not happy that Wayne Pacelle is staying on during the investigation into complaints of sexual harassment. In other news, after the Federal Trade Commission accused a telemarketer of lying to potential donors, some charities are considering cutting ties; the University of Iowa wants to drop Steve Wynn’s name from an institute after he was accused of sexual misconduct; a donor gave money to a conservancy to name a great white shark after Robert Mueller; and much more.