Daily News Roundup: Mo. Governor Used Charity Email for Political Messages
In other news, a New Hampshire university dedicates $20 million to scholarships for Dreamers; Bryn Mawr gets a $25 million gift; and thousands of nonprofits could lose Google Ad grants. Plus, the Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces mandatory admission, big foundations fight Trump cuts for the arts, charity-fundraising site CrowdRise rises again, a nonprofit leader proposes a Star Trek-inspired management model, and more.
Daily News Roundup: Trump’s Family-Planning Program Favors Clinics That Push Abstinence
In other news, International Committee of the Red Cross says 21 people have resigned or been fired since 2015 over sexual misconduct; 50 years after a landmark report, barriers to equality remain; the Moody Foundation is stepping up grants to small arts groups in Dallas; Disney gives $1 million from Black Panther to Boys & Girls Clubs; gifts from the Koch Foundation stir debate at the Harvard Kennedy School; and more news and opinion.
Podcast: Former Obama Official Discusses How to Create a Culture of Innovation
Sonal Shah, former President Obama’s director of social innovation and civic participation, now leads a center at Georgetown University that teaches methods of social change, with a heavy emphasis on data and technology.
This Grant Maker Pledged $17.5 Million to Address Diversity and Inclusion in Its Own Ranks
A disclosure about its staff diversity — required in Britain — made for some “uncomfortable reading,” according to the group’s director.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
‘It Just Felt Like a Miracle’: Small Groups Win Big in Bitcoin Donor’s $56 Million Giving Spree
‘The Pineapple Fund wants to give you $1 million,’ read one unsolicited email. It sounded like a scam, but the offer, like many others from the donor, was real.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Daily News Roundup: High-School Shooting Survivors Receive Millions in Donations
Also, George Clooney, Oprah, Steven Spielberg, and Jeffrey Katzenberg have given to the student survivors’ March for Our Lives cause. In other news, a lesbian couple prohibited by charity from being foster parents have sued; Ford Foundation and Color of Change lead a list of most innovative nonprofits; for colleges, it’s now survival of the fittest; the #MeToo movement has shattered illusions about the nonprofit world; and much more about harassment and giving and other news.
Daily News Roundup: Oxfam Scandal and Nonprofit Oversight
Why aren’t nonprofit overseen like for-profits are? In other Oxfam articles, the charity released a report saying some suspects “physically threatened” witnesses; and the CEO is fighting to salvage the group’s reputation. In other articles, a famous Hawaiian school has paid $80 million after “decades of monstrous sexual abuse” by a psychiatrist; with a push from foundations, gifts to nonprofit news sites are soaring; and much more about giving and other news.
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.
Hard-Fought Corporate Partnerships Yield Big Results for Farmworkers
MacArthur “genius” award winner Greg Asbed has spent years picking watermelons, making farm-labor wages — and persuading major corporations and foundations to fight abuse of field workers
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
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: 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.
Daily News Roundup: Sexual Harassment at the Red Cross
A Red Cross official was forced to resign over accusations of sexual harassment and rape, then landed a job at Save the Children. In other news, Michigan State’s president is stepping down due to fallout over faculty member Larry Nassar’s sex-abuse conviction; an all-male charity event is shutting down after an investigation found attendees sexually harassed women hostesses; endowment returns rebound, but the long-term outlook is cloudy; Cecile Richards is leaving Planned Parenthood; and more.
Daily News Roundup: Jeff Bezos Is Giving $33 Million for Dreamer Scholarships
The money will go to TheDream.US, a nonprofit that former Washington Post owner Don Graham founded. In other news, advocates worry that the tax bill will make affordable housing more scarce; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says deducting property taxes as charity is “ridiculous"; before Eric Trump resigned from his charity, he continued to host events that benefited his father’s companies; an anonymous donor gave $100 million to a mental-health and addiction center; and much more.
Podcast: How Reshma Saujani Helps Girls ‘March Up Into the Middle Class’
This week’s Business of Giving features the founder of Girls Who Code, which has helped thousands of girls in all 50 states get a head start on promising careers.
Nonprofits Win as Tech Company Replaces Referral Bonuses With Donations
Cloud storage company Box says employees have responded positively to its unusual effort to build a culture of charity. Meanwhile, the company is saving money.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
A Matter of Degree: Helping Young Moms Succeed
Bard Microcollege Holyoke is designed to tackle the challenges that keep nontraditional students with children from finishing their degrees.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor