Daily News Roundup: GOP Tax Law Could Cost Charities
A 21 percent tax on some fringe benefits for employees could affect churches, hospitals, colleges, orchestras, and other groups. In other articles, a New York curator says a museum rescinded a job offer after she announced she was pregnant; the Salvador Dali Foundation sued the Monterey Museum for using the artist’s name and likeness; a look at the Gates Foundation’s failed effort to grade teachers; and more articles about big donors and social services.
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: Online Fundraising Will Aid Shooting Victims at Md. Newspaper
A GoFundMe campaign is quickly building to the $70,000 goal. In other articles, a Columbia University student who fought sexual violence now faces child sex-crime charges; an opinion piece pins the Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s troubles on greed; the Space Foundation counters a lawsuit by Buzz Aldrin; a nonprofit sets up a hotline to reunite immigrant families; the Philadelphia History Museum will close after a partnership collapses; and more on migrants, nonprofits, giving, and arts and culture.
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: Judge Urges Trump to Settle Foundation Lawsuit
The judge said the president’s nonprofit should try to reach an agreement with the New York attorney general to dissolve. In other articles, the Templeton Prize this year is going to the King of Jordan for promoting cooperation among Muslims with different traditions; the San Diego Foundation has dismissed its CEO; a $25 million donation will go toward creating artificial intelligence to treat heart disease; and much more on immigration and arts and culture and politics, government, and nonprofits.
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.
Daily News Roundup: Donors Give Millions to Separated Migrant Families
Hundreds of thousands of people are giving to nonprofits to help families being separated at the U.S.-Mexican border, including to a record-breaking Facebook campaign that has brought in $12 million so far. Also, a look inside the nonprofits and companies that house the children. In other articles, the Trump administration is taking aim at safety-net programs as it eyes government reorganization; and much more about big philanthropy and other nonprofit news.
Nonprofit Leaders Add to Outpouring of Fury Over Border Policies
Pressure built in the days and hours leading up to President Trump’s reversal on separating migrant children from parents, with nonprofit leaders calling the policy “cruel” and a violation of human rights.
By Ariella Phillips
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Outrage Over Family Separations Prompts Protests by Advocay Groups
Rallies are planned in 132 cities on June 30 to protest the Trump administration’s policy of detaining immigrant children apart from their parents. In other articles, one Texas nonprofit reaped $450 million to house detained children in a former Walmart store; the CEO of a nonprofit shelter for detained immigrant children — and who called police on a Democratic senator when he tried to enter the building — is paid $770,000; and much more about big philanthropy and other news.
Grant Makers Share Case Studies to Improve Response to Immigrant Crises
As the nation watches wrenching scenes play out at the U.S.-Mexico border, a group called Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees is working on a long-term strategy to build public understanding of and support for refugees.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor