Daily News Roundup: Zuckerberg and Sandberg Give to Unite Immigrant Families
The pair gave to an online drive by former Facebook employees raising money for a Texas nonprofit. In other articles, a look at what would happen if university endowments invested only in funds with diverse hiring practices; how the Koch brothers are fighting public-transit plans; and more about big philanthropy and other news.
Wealth Gap in Cities Is at Center of $4 Million Kresge Grant
The money will go to prominent think tanks, with bigger investments expected to follow.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Laurene Powell Jobs Ramps Up Quest for Social Change
With a flurry of recent activity, the Apple billionaire’s Emerson Collective is stepping to the forefront on education, immigration, and other issues. Plus, Goldman Sachs launches a new social-impact fund, a $5 million Charles Koch gift sparks conflict at a California campus, and more philanthropy news.
Daily News Roundup: How George Soros and the ACLU Are Taking on Trumpism
The billionaire donor says being targeting by the global right won’t change his giving, while the venerable civil-rights group gets more active in elections. Plus, smaller public broadcasters face revenue struggles, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra sets an ambitious fundraising goal, and a look at Anthony Bourdain’s charity work.
Daily News Roundup: $50 Million Gift to Cincinnati Zoo
In other articles, the former chairman of Wells Fargo is giving $20 million to DePauw University; the Gates Foundation is starting a nonprofit biotech in Boston; a little-known conservative Midwestern couple is wielding big influence in philanthropy; “design thinking” can help nonprofits with fundraising; how to get narcissists to give to charity; and other articles about legal news and investing and opinion and much more.
Daily News Roundup: Mo. House Drops Attempt to Get Records From Greitens Nonprofit
In other articles, the Danish drugmaker Lundbeck has agreed to pay $52.6 million to resolve a U.S. inquiry into its financial support of patient-assistance charitable foundations; the Shubert Foundation is giving $30 million to more than 500 performing-arts groups; families on the Gaza Strip are increasingly needy due in part to the freezing of U.S. aid; and more news and features.
Daily News Roundup: David Koch Leaves Conservative Nonprofit
The billionaire industrialist and philanthropist is in declining health. In other articles, money for the universal basic income experiment in California is coming from the Economic Security Project, co-chaired by one of Facebook’s founders, Chris Hughes; the Lichtenstein Foundation is giving big while winding down; the Kellogg Foundation is starting a $10 million small-business loan fund for Battle Creek, Mich.; and more news and opinion.
Daily News Roundup: Anti-Gun-Violence Teens on Get-Out-the-Vote Drive
The March for Our Lives youth movement will go on a bus tour across the country this summer to register young people to vote. In other articles, the Gates Foundation found it benefited from offering 52 weeks of paid parental leave; some wonder if the IRS’s scrutiny of blue states’ tax workarounds will also bring more attention red states; among the options Starbucks’s Howard Schultz is weighing is philanthropy; and more news.
Unbroken: A Father Who Lost His Son to Opioid Addiction Is on a Mission
Gary Mendell channels his pain into relentless efforts to improve treatment, insurance coverage, and public awareness. He has also donated $5 million to the cause — and is raising millions more.
Corporations Use Charitable Giving to Influence Lawmakers, Study Finds
Grants from big-business foundations flow to causes favored by legislators with clout on issues of company interest, creating what one economist involved in the research calls a “tax-advantaged form of lobbying.”
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Takes the Lead in Battling Opioid Abuse
As addiction rates soar, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation seeks to multiply the power of its $43.5 million fund to combat the problem.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Santa Fe Shooting Survivors Start Nonprofit
In other articles, the Parkland students that formed the nonprofit March for Our Lives are trying new ways to hold politicians and businesses accountable for gun safety; critics are questioning Food for the Poor’s claims of low administrative costs; a judge has delayed an order to force Missouri Governor Eric Greitens’s nonprofit to turn over records; Warren Buffett’s charity lunch sold for $3.3 million; and much more about giving and arts and culture and opinion.
Daily News Roundup: Southern Baptist Seminary Fires Leader Over Handling of Sex-Abuse Allegations
Paige Patterson was let go after statements he made about spousal abuse while he was in a previous job were published. In other articles, IBM is pledging $30 million over five years for a global effort to tackle social challenges such as relief after natural disasters; Melinda Gates has been supporting venture-capital firms led by women and minorities; and more news and articles about the arts.
Nonprofits Must Rally Americans to the Ballot Box to Protect the Needy
As voters and lawmakers focus on the midterm elections, it’s essential to support grass-roots organizing and advocacy against policies that would shred America’s safety net.
By MARK ROSENMAN and Nonprofit Activist
Daily News Roundup: Insiders Reap Big Rewards From Foundations
in other articles, a study found that the University of Louisville Foundation overpaid its former president and other ex-officials $3.9 million; the New York attorney general says a veterans charity sold tickets to a raffle that didn’t take place; the Giving Pledge has added 14 more philanthropists; a look at how Warren Buffett’s fundraising lunches started; and more news as well as articles about big donors.
Daily News Roundup: Koch Fund Boosts Education Giving
The Charles Koch Foundation is giving far more to colleges and universities even as its philanthropy is facing more scrutiny. In other articles, single people are often seen as selfish, but research shows otherwise; the number of college students volunteering has hit an all-time low; a nonprofit that thrived after 9/11 has languished in recent years; and more, including opinion and the arts.