Harvard Raises $9.6 Billion in Capital Campaign: Daily News Roundup
September 21, 2018 | Read Time: 2 minutes
Top News
Harvard Raises $9.6 Billion in Final Capital Campaign Tally, Smashing Its Own Fundraising Record (Harvard Crimson). Plus, see what could be done with that money, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Sloan Kettering’s Cozy Deal With Start-Up Ignites a New Uproar (New York Times)
Veterans Charity Collects $6.5 Million in Fla., but the Money Is MIA (WFLA)
Big Donor’s Facebook Photos of 2 Black Students Unsettle Ole Miss (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Widely Used Nonprofit Efficiency Tool Doesn’t Work, Study Says (Science Daily)
Nonprofits and the Law
Texas A&M Research Foundation to Pay $750,000 to Settle Federal Claims (Associated Press)
Ill. Supreme Court Upholds Law Allowing Hospital Property Tax (Chicago Tribune)
Ex-Board Member of Palm Beach Charity Admits Stealing $2 Million From Pension (Palm Beach Post)
Brad Pitt’s Foundation Sues New Orleans Architect Who Designed Faulty Post-Katrina Homes (Associated Press)
Big Gifts and Grants
U. of Alabama Law School Gets $26.5 Million From Developer (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Family Gives $20 Million to U. of California at San Francisco for Center for Mood Disorders (Bay City News Service)
Editorial: A big Sinquefield Gift to St. Louis University Raises Concerns Over Academic Integrity (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
$14 Million Gift Establishes Scrivner Institute of Public Policy at the University of Denver (Denverite)
Arkansas State U. Gets $6.7 Million Gift for 3D Arts Facility (KAIT)
Bezos Family Gives $3 Million to Shape UW’s Early Education Work (Seattle Times)
Weekend Reads
Case Foundation CEO: Want to Change the World? Here Are 5 Steps to Take (Fast Company)
Scott Harrison Turned From Nightclub Promoter to Philanthropist (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
Jose Andres’s New Memoir Recounts How his Organization Enlisted 20,000 Local Volunteers to Prepare and Deliver 3.7 Million Meals (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
Is It Possible to Reinvent Opera? This Group Is Trying. (WSJ Magazine — subscription)
Clarification: In a previous version of this list of articles, the headline about Texas A&M was inaccurate due to an error by the Associated Press. The headline should have noted that it was the Texas A&M Research Foundation that paid $750,000 to settle a federal claim, not the Texas A&M Foundation.
