Daily News Roundup: Telemarketers Pocketing Most of the Millions Raised by Veterans Charity

Top News

Veterans Charity Raises Millions to Help Those Who’ve Served. But Telemarketers Are Pocketing Most of It. (Politico)

Charities Employ Controversial Telemarketers to Tug on Heartstrings — and Loosen Purse Strings (Center for Public Integrity)

Deficit-Challenged New York Philharmonic Raises $50 Million — Fast (The New York Times)

5 Dancers Accuse City Ballet Leader Peter Martins of Physical Abuse (The New York Times)

About Giving

Philanthropist Jim Simons’s New Research Center Helps Scientists Mine Data for the Common Good (The New Yorker)

Goldman Sachs Is Starting a Fund to Invest in Socially Responsible Companies (Bloomberg)

Could Public-Private Investments Help Keep Convicts From Returning to Prison? (The Washington Post)

‘Star Trek’ Creator’s Foundation Is Now Funding Future-Focused Activists (Fast Company)

About Leading

How Partners in Health Wants to Bring Health Care to Some of the Poorest People on Earth (The New Yorker)

Ex-Teach for America Executive to Run for Ark. Governor (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

When the Fires Came, Why Getty’s Art Stayed Put (The New York Times)

‘Pain Is a Growth Industry’: A Crisis Line That Calms With Texting and Data (The New York Times)

We Need More Women in STEM: The Girl Scouts Want to Help (Fast Company)

Opinion

Pop Star Ed Sheeran and the ‘White Savior’ Philanthropist (The New York Times)

In Miss. Museum Openings, a Victory for ‘Local People’ (The New York Times)

Blocking Rockwell Sale Leaves Struggling Museum at Risk (The Post and Courier)

How Stephen Ross’s Gift to the U. of Michigan Ended Up in Tax Court (Detroit Free Press)