Undocumented Students Turn to Tuition-Free Online University
About a quarter of the American students enrolled in University of the People, a nonprofit online university, are undocumented, NPR reports. About 2,500 students are enrolled in the low-cost university; roughly half of them live in the United States.
Museums Embrace — or Discourage — Digital Tools
While some museums embrace mobile technology, others encourage visitors to set aside their screens, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Zuckerberg and Chan to Launch Bay Area Private School
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, physician and former teacher Priscilla Chan, will open a preschool and K-8 school next year tailored to the needs of children from low-income families in East Palo Alto, Calif., the San Jose Mercury News reports.
Gates and Slim Funds Step Up Mesoamerica Health Effort
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carlos Slim Foundation are preparing to launch the second phase of a cooperative, $170-million program to improve newborn and maternal health in Mexico and Central America, Reuters writes.
Boise State U. Gets $25-Million Gift for Science Program
The donation from Micron Foundation will cover nearly half the cost of a new building for the university’s materials science program, reports the Idaho Statesman.
Opinion: Saudi Mogul’s ‘Philanthropy U.’ Off to a Fast Start
Columnist Paul Sullivan at The New York Times writes about the launch of Philanthropy University, a nonprofit initiative funded by Saudi businessman Amr Al-Dabbagh to offer education and training to nonprofit executives through “massive open online courses,” or MOOCs.
U. of Wisconsin Nonprofit Awarded $234 Million in Apple Case
The damage award Friday followed a federal jury’s ruling that Apple infringed on a patent for computer-chip technology developed on the Madison campus and owned by a university-affiliated foundation, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
Jack Dorsey Pledges Fifth of Tech Firm Square to Charity
The tech mogul has launched a foundation to aid needy communities around the world and will give it a nearly one-fifth stake in his mobile-payments company Square, which filed for an initial public offering this week, Quartz and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
Growth in Giving Fuels Investor Interest in Blackbaud
The supplier of software for charities is gaining popularity among investment managers as giving grows and the smaller nonprofits that are a large part of its customer base increasingly seek big-data solutions, Reuters reports.
Patent Case Against Apple Could Award University Foundation $860 Million
A federal jury on Tuesday found that the Silicon Valley giant violated a 1998 patent owned by a nonprofit arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Reuters reports.
Security Glitch Nixes Online Giving for Calif. State Workers
California’s government has dropped a new online mechanism for state employees to make payroll donations to charity because it violated security standards, The Sacramento Bee reports.
White House-Backed Kickstarter Campaign Raises Refugee Aid
At the request of the Obama administration, the crowdfunding site Kickstarter is hosting its first humanitarian campaign, aimed at raising money for the United Nations refugee agency to aid people fleeing Syria, The New York Times reports.
$100 Million Pledged for Brain Studies
The science-focused Kavli Foundation and seven institutions of higher education are together supporting the effort to advance research into traumatic injury and brain diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, Agence France-Presse reports.
Facebook Reverses Ban on Sight-Loss Charity’s Video Ad
After barring a Royal National Institute of Blind People advertisement that asks viewers to consider how they would feel if they were losing their sight, Facebook did an about-face Wednesday and cleared the clip, The Guardian reports.
Facebook Bans Blindness Charity’s Ad as Too Negative
Facebook rejected the Royal National Institute of Blind People’s advertisement calling for sight-loss advisers in British hospitals, saying the clip transgresses the social network’s policy of displaying only “neutral or positive” ads, according to The Guardian.
Gates Foundation Backs Program to Strengthen Primary Care
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming with the World Health Organization and the World Bank on an effort to close data gaps that weaken the provision of primary health care in poor and middle-income countries, The New York Times reports.