Daily News Roundup: Stars Sport ACLU Support in Oscar Fashions

ACLU Ribbons Popular on Academy Awards Red Carpet: A parade of celebrities wore blue ribbons marking support for the American Civil Liberties Union as part of their fashion ensembles, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The charity, which has seen fundraising skyrocket while aggressively opposing President Trump’s agenda, launched a campaign last week encouraging stars to wear the ribbons at awards shows.

Salesforce’s “Pledge 1%” Model Takes Root in Corporate World: Fast Company talks to the cloud-computing firm’s chief philanthropy officer, Suzanne DiBianca, about its commitment to donate 1 percent of its equity, products, and staff time to charity annually. The model has been adopted by hundreds of companies, including several highly valued Silicon Valley start-ups.

Cause Gift Cards Aim to Boost Millennial Giving: Forbes talks to Barry Shore, the chief executive of Dlyte.com, a company that seeks to channel young adults’ “add good” approach to shopping and dining by directing a portion of the money they spend on retail gift cards to causes and charities of consumers’ choice.

$45 Million Gift Backs New School at Chapman U.: The Southern California institution will use the donation from real-estate mogul and alumnus Dale Fowler and his wife, Sarah Ann, to establish an engineering school, the Orange County Register reports. The couple gave $55 million in 2013 to Chapman’s law school.

Obituary: Ward Chamberlin Jr., 95, Pioneer in Public Broadcasting: Mr. Chamberlin, a former corporate lawyer, helped shape the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as a high-ranking executive with the federal agency in its infancy and later ran WETA, Washington’s public TV station, where he helped launch the career of documentarian Ken Burns, writes The Washington Post.

Guatemala Expels Abortion-Rights Group’s Ship and Crew: The order followed the Guatemalan military’s detention last week of a boat operated by Women on Waves, a Dutch nonprofit that provides abortion services in international waters for women in countries where the procedure is illegal, the Associated Press reports.