Daily News Roundup: Trump Administration May Bypass Congress to Grant Big Tax Cut for the Rich
July 31, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
Top News
Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich (New York Times)
How One Nonprofit Built a Multimillion-Dollar Business in Migrant Children (New York Times)
Aid Sector ‘Almost Complicit’ in Sex-Abuse Scandal, say MPs (BBC)
About Big Philanthropy
Where Giving Pledge Tech Titans Are Making Donations (Business Insider)
T. Denny Sanford Still Isn’t Giving Enough Money Away to Make a Dent in His Billions (Argus Leader)
How Paul Brainerd Went From Revolutionizing Publishing to Philanthropy (GeekWire)
Big Gifts
UCLA Receives $25 Million to Support Humanities and Philosophy (Daily Nous). Also, see a Chronicle interview with the finance titan who gave $75 million to philosophy at Johns Hopkins.
Lockheed Martin President Pledges $15 Million to U. of Alabama (Tuscaloosa News)
More News
How a Community Foundation Tackled Political Incivility — and Won (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
Why the ACLU Wants to Be More Like the NRA (New York Times podcast)
LeBron James, Basketball Star Cum Philanthropist, Fulfills Promise With Opening of School in Akron (Reuters)
Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw Says His Foundation Has Broken Ground on School in Zambia (Los Angeles Times)
The Warhol Foundation Puts $3.6 Million Toward Art for Social Good (Fast Company)
