Grants Roundup: Bloomberg Fund Gives $32 Million to Support City Leaders
Other notable awards include $10.1 million from the Herb Alpert Foundation for music education and grants from the AARP Foundation and New York Life to aid Louisiana flood victims.
By Rebecca Koenig
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New Travel Website Links Hotel Discounts and Charity Gifts
Kind Traveler, launched earlier this month, offers up to 25 percent off published rates on stays at select boutique and style-focused hotels if users donate at least $10 to charity for each night booked, writes The New York Times.
Grants Roundup: Chicago Groups Get $3 Million for College and Youth Programs
Also, the Solutions Project establishes a rapid-response grant fund to help grass-roots groups working on climate justice.
By Rebecca Koenig
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Fundraising Curbs Might Not Cover All Clinton Charities
The Clinton Health Access Initiative, the largest of the Clinton Foundation’s subsidiary charities, might not be bound by the foundation’s pledge not to take gifts from foreign actors and corporations if Hillary Clinton is elected president, according to The Boston Globe.
Mass. Charter-School Campaign Funded by Secretive Nonprofits
A ballot initiative to expand charter schools in Massachusetts is being funded in part by nonprofits that do not have to disclose their donors, highlighting the difficulty states face in tracking political money that flows through tax-exempt “social-welfare” groups, The Boston Globe writes.
Trump’s ‘Apprentice’ Charity Pledges Were Paid by Others
The Republican presidential nominee made more than 20 on-air promises to donate to contestant-backed charities during his seven seasons hosting The Celebrity Apprentice, but there is no evidence he personally fulfilled any of them, according to The Washington Post.
GlaxoSmithKline Tops ‘Fortune’ List of Companies Doing Good
The magazine unveiled its 2016 “Change the World” roster of 50 corporations tackling major social and environmental challenges through their core business.
Grants Roundup: N.C. State Gets $45 Million for Plant Research
Other notable awards include $4.2 million from the Rose Community Foundation to support an array of Denver-area nonprofits.
By Rebecca Koenig
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Human-Rights Champion Gave Little to Help Dissidents From a Yahoo Fund
Harry Wu, who spent nine years in Chinese Labor camps, left a tarnished legacy after granting only $1.2 million to Chinese dissident families from a $17 million fund set up by the tech giant for that purpose, writes The New York Times.
Millennials Top Poll in Favoring Charitable Companies
Eighteen- to 34-year-old respondents to a Fortune survey were more concerned than older generations about working for and buying from businesses they view as giving back to society.
Opinion: Assessing Think Tanks’ Big-Business Ties
A Tufts University professor and think-tank scholar examines The New York Times’s recent reporting on nonprofit policy institutes’ relationships with corporations in an online Washington Post commentary.
Grants Roundup: WWII Museum Gets $3 Million From Bob Hope’s Foundation
Other awards include $5 million from the Pritzker Family Foundation to support early education for low-income children.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Dozens of Think-Tank Scholars Also Work for Corporations
The dual roles are often undisclosed by representatives of nonprofit policy institutes who do research on issues for which they also serve as corporate lobbyists or consultants, The New York Times writes in the second article in a series detailing ties between think tanks and big business.
Documents Show Big Think Tanks Courting Corporate Donors
Prominent think tanks like the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies are increasingly promoting the agendas of corporate donors as they aggressively ramp up fundraising, according to The New York Times.
Small Group of Big Donors Powers African-American Museum
Nineteen individuals, foundations, and corporations have collectively contributed more than two-thirds of the $273 million in private giving to build the National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Washington Post writes in a rundown of the $5 million-plus donors.
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.