Web Magazine Shows Charity’s Growth as Marketing Tool
Companies engaging more actively in charity outreach are finding it an effective tool to shape their brand, CNBC reports in an article focusing on digital publication The Chive, which has gained a large audience with its diet of humor videos and photos of scantily clad women but is also involving readers in its philanthropy.
Gateses and Waltons Among Top Donors to Jeb Bush Schools Group
Several major corporations and education-focused philanthropies have donated millions of dollars to the school-overhaul nonprofit launched by Jeb Bush after his tenure as Florida’s governor, the Associated Press reports, citing disclosures made last week by the Republican presidential candidate.
Grants Roundup: Cincinnati Arts Groups Receive Over $10 Million
Also included: a $3.1-million grant from the Templeton Religious Trust to the University of Notre Dame to study how science affects laboratory researchers’ beliefs.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Social Innovation Fund Report Finds Signs of Success
But many beneficiaries say the evaluation mandate is a financial burden.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
As Earnings Rise, Big Law Firms Giving Little for Legal Aid
Major law firms reaped record revenues last year but donated only one-tenth of 1 percent of their proceeds to legal aid for the needy, The New York Times writes, citing an analysis by The American Lawyer magazine.
Smithsonian Plans New Rules on Disclosing Research Funding
The Smithsonian Institution will tighten its conflict-of-interest guidelines for researchers with an eye toward preventing corporations and other outside donors from exercising undue influence on scientific studies, reports The New York Times.
Median Corporation Gave $18.5-Million in 2014
Financial, industrial, and utility firms overwhelmingly donated money while the communications and health-care sectors gave more in products and services, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing new data from a Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy study.
Spared for Another Year, Sweet Briar’s Next Challenge Is Fundraising
Donors have pledged $21 million — more than enough to cover the $12 million needed for the college’s operating budget for the next academic year — but only 5 percent has been collected so far, writes The Chronicle of Higher Education.
USC Builds Fundraising Juggernaut for $6 Billion Campaign
In pursuit of an ambitious $6 billion target, the University of Southern California has built a powerful development operation that reaches far beyond its Los Angeles campus, the Los Angeles Times writes.
Nonprofit Pools Investments to Support Social-Good Startup Companies
The Prime Coalition provides seed money to early-stage companies with a social purpose to help them until they find traditional funding, The Boston Globe reports.
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.
Philanthropy Surges 5.4% to Record $358 Billion, Says ‘Giving USA’
The annual report, considered the most comprehensive source of data on Americans’ gifts to charity, showed donations rising in most categories.
By Eden Stiffman and Holly Hall
GOP and Corporate Titans in Shorter Supply at Denver Clinton Initiative
The Clinton Global Initiative’s annual America conference opened in Denver on Monday with a sparser roster of corporate and political heavy hitters than in past years, but organization officials said controversies over Clinton Foundation fundraising are not affecting the guest list, Bloomberg writes.
Companies Ramp Up Food Giving as Mass. Clamps Down on Waste
Hundreds of Massachusetts businesses and institutions are donating food that in the past would have gone into dumpsters or compost heaps as the state implements new restrictions aimed at reducing food waste and feeding the needy, reports The Boston Globe.
Gallup Owners Donate $30-Million to U. of Nebraska-Lincoln
The pledge from the family that heads research and management-consulting company Gallup will establish an institute devoted to the field of “strengths psychology” pioneered by their late patriarch, Don Clifton, reports the Lincoln Journal Star.
Carnival Launching New Cruise Line for Volunteer Trips
The cruise company will begin offering voyages to the Dominican Republic next year tailored for travelers more interested in service work than sightseeing, the Associated Press reports.