Daily News Roundup: Sexual Harassment Is Rife Among Classical Musicians
More than 50 artists share their ordeals with harassment and assault at all levels of the profession — occurring in dressing rooms, during one-on-one lessons, and even in the wings during performances. In other articles, Catholic hospitals are shaping health care in rural America; an HIV program Trump aims to cut wins high praise from researchers and health officials; and more articles about giving and other news.
Daily News Roundup: How a Group Working for Migrants Is Using a $30M Windfall
Raices is making plans for the $21 million raised on Facebook and the millions more that are still flowing in. In other articles, a New York nonprofit that takes care of immigrant children has tripled its revenue; lawyer Jay Sekulow is using the Trump administration’s actions to raise money for his own group; the University of Wisconsin at Oshkoch Foundation has filed an $18.5 million claim against the UW system; and other articles about foundations and big gifts and museums and more.
When Salaries Are Bigger Than Grants
Our look at 20,000 foundations identified 49 at which the compensation paid to staff and board members accounted for more than half of the foundations’ charitable grant making.
By Peter Olsen-Phillips and Megan O’Neil
States Spark Endowment Gifts With Special Tax Incentives
With the federal tax law making it less likely that all but the ultrawealthy will take charity tax breaks, states are showing growing interest in ways to promote donations.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Dozens of Fake Veterans Charities Pocket the Money They Raise, Says FTC
The Federal Trade Commission and others have worked together on more than 100 actions against phony nonprofits, which have collected tens of millions in cash and goods. In other articles, a Senate panel approved the Trump administration’s IRS nominee along party lines; a nonprofit for immigrants refuses $250,000 from Salesforce.com; resettlement charities fold or shift their focus as the number of migrants drops; plus more articles on innovation, nonprofits and the law, and opinion.
Daily News Roundup: N.Y. Is Investigating Trump Foundation, Sources Say
The state’s Department of Taxation and Finance is looking into whether the grant maker violated state laws. In other articles, the Interior Department is launching an inquiry into a real-estate deal linking the Zinke Foundation and the chairman of Halliburton; the arrest of alleged Russian agent Maria Butina has drawn attention to a firearms-advocacy group; and more news and features.
A Community Foundation’s Anniversary Campaign Raised More Than $100 Million: Here’s How
The staff planned ahead, held multiple fundraising events, and understood their donors.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: U.S. Volunteer Groups Stranded in Haiti
Flights have been canceled, and roads are unsafe due to violent protests over fuel prices. In other articles, most of the Trump Foundation’s giving in the past decade has gone to groups that hosted lavish events at Mar-a-Lago; artists Chuck Close and Laddie John Dill and the Sam Francis Foundation have lost a lawsuit against Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and eBay over royalties; and more about giving by LeBron James and China’s most charitable man as well as articles on innovation and social services.
Daily News Roundup: MacArthur Foundation to Fund Immigration Projects
Plus, Charles Koch Foundation steps up support for news media; tech donors’ big donations haven’t paid off for San Francisco schools; public radio explores potential of fundraising through Alexa; Metropolitan Museum in New York sees higher attendance despite fee hike; unequal pay dispute roils Boston Symphony; Colonial Williamsburg Foundation receives rare painting; and more.
Daily News Roundup: Judge Orders FEMA Aid Extension for Puerto Rican Storm Evacuees
Plus, a look at the Christian legal nonprofit that keeps winning at the Supreme Court; emails suggest improper fundraising by Missouri governor who recently resigned; a look at efforts to help revive local journalism; commentator says the Trump Foundation case could force the president to release his tax returns; Arkansas to cut hundreds of health-care jobs; charity’s nuns in India arrested for baby-selling; and more.
Daily News Roundup: Big Donors to Baptist Seminary Challenge Trustees’ Ouster of President
Two dozen benefactors are calling for an investigation of the leader’s firing over comments related to mistreatment of women. Also, a veterans nonprofit stands by an official with past links to Klan; a former CEO blamed heavily for the 2008 financial crisis is now active in philanthropy and real estate; Trump has embraced the big-money donor world he once shunned; and more.
Daily News Roundup: Owner of Annapolis Paper Creates Fund for Mass-Shooting Victims and Families
A family foundation will match the company’s donations up to $1 million. Also, infighting is roiling New York’s Lincoln Center over priorities; a look at the ACLU’s war on Trump and a detailed comparison of the Trump and Clinton foundations; UC-Irvine professor and $10 million donor resigns over sexual harassment allegations; and more.
Daily News Roundup: New Cryptocurrency Fund Aims to Raise $1 Billion for Charity
CEO Brian Armstrong of Coinbase wants to donate directly to people in need. In other articles, the owner of nut company used his foundation to lend millions to business associates; an ethics expert at Stanford argues that big philanthropy is hurting democracy; the $1 billion Gates-backed education initiative is judged a failure; a look at the Trump Foundation’s legal troubles; Columbia University to get international Obama Scholars; and more on tax law, education, and nonprofit leadership.
Daily News Roundup: Billionaires Make Up for Harvard’s Poor Investment Returns
By lagging average investment returns of the Ivy League, the university missed out on $6 billion in investment gains, but it raised more than $9 billion in its latest fundraising drive. In other articles, a $40 million effort to improve nutrition science is nearly out of money; a look at how Sesame Street helps traumatized children; states and communities are fighting to halt sex abuse of people with intellectual disabilities; and much more about giving and poverty and opioid addiction.
The New York attorney general filed a lawsuit alleging that four times Trump signed the grant maker’s tax returns that stated incorrectly his businesses hadn’t benefited from its money. In other articles, the University of Southern Maine got a gift of maps worth $100 million; an interview with the couple who have raised $19 million on Facebook for migrant children; and much more about immigrants and the nonprofits housing the children. Plus, more news about endowments and think tanks and giving.
Daily News Roundup: Millions Given for Migrant Legal Aid
A Texas nonprofit is using the money, in part, to help parents contact their children by phone. In other articles, Facebook and crowdsourcing have helped fuel fundraising for migrants; in the months before its “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, the Trump administration awarded contracts and grants to nonprofits and business to run facilities housing migrant children; and other articles about Trump’s federal-agency overhaul plan and much more news.