Tex. Women’s-Health Program Funds Pro-Life Activist’s Group
The Heidi Group, which offers no direct health services and is headed by an antiabortion advocate, received $1.6 million from Healthy Texas Women, one of the biggest grants from the new state program to subsidize family planning and health services for low-income women, the Austin American-Statesman writes.
Emails Suggest Clinton Foundation Sought State Dept. Favors
A conservative watchdog group released a new batch of emails Tuesday that suggest close ties and overlapping interests between the foundation and the Hillary Clinton-led State Department, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal report.
Ala. Charity’s Ex-CFO Gets 17 Years in $11 Million Fraud
Terri McGuire Mollica was also ordered to forfeit nearly $2 million in proceeds she received from the scheme to divert millions from a pair of Alabama community-health centers to their chief executive, reports The Birmingham News.
Israel Links Save the Children and U.N. Aid Workers to Hamas
A Palestinian employee of the United Nations Development Program was indicted Tuesday on charges of assisting Hamas, and a Save the Children aid worker has also come under suspicion as part of Israeli authorities’ investigation of alleged ties between aid groups and Gaza militants, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse report.
Watchdog Group Says Trump Charity Mixed Giving and Politics
The left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington called Monday for the Internal Revenue Service to review the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s tax-exempt status, claiming involvement by the charity in its founder’s presidential campaign, The Daily Beast and The Washington Post report.
Documents Show Big Think Tanks Courting Corporate Donors
Prominent think tanks like the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies are increasingly promoting the agendas of corporate donors as they aggressively ramp up fundraising, according to The New York Times.
World Vision Says Charge of Hamas Diversion Doesn’t Add Up
The global aid charity said Monday that there is a “huge gap” between the amount of money, material, and other aid Israeli authorities claim its Gaza director funneled to militant group Hamas and what it actually spends in the region, the Associated Press writes.
Shutdown of Minn. Foundation Draws State Scrutiny
Twin Cities philanthropist Caroline Amplatz has dissolved her foundation and given the $1.77 million remaining in its coffers to a medical-technology start-up led by her father, a transfer being reviewed by Minnesota’s attorney general, the Pioneer Press reports.
Unicef Cuts Ties to African Charity Linked to Alleged Cult
The United Nations Children’s Fund and the British government have suspended funding for DAPP Malawi, an aid nonprofit that has been tied to the Teachers Group, a shadowy network headed by an international fugitive, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting and the BBC.
Nonprofit Fla. College Has Telemarketing Army, Suit Claims
A lawsuit against Keiser University alleges the newly nonprofit institution employs 350 telemarketers to machine-call prospective students, potentially giving ammunition to critics who contend Keiser remains an essentially commercial enterprise, according to BuzzFeed News.
In W. Michigan, Giving Shapes 2 Cities in Different Ways
Generous local benefactors have had a major impact on social, political, and cultural life in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids in ways that reflect widely varied approaches to civic philanthropy, MLive writes.
World Vision’s Gaza Chief Accused by Israel of Aiding Hamas
Israeli security officials arrested the aid organization’s Gaza director on allegations that he steered tens millions of dollars from the charity to the Islamist Palestinian group’s military wing, Israeli daily Haaretz and the Associated Press report.
Black Lives Matter Groups Push Grant Makers to Step Outside Their Comfort Zones
Foundations should back efforts to create “deep, systemic, and structural change” rather than supporting programs that just tweak existing power structures, says one leader of the racial-justice movement.
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Roger Ailes Drops $500,000 Gift for N.Y. State Senior Center
Protests by Putnam County, N.Y., residents derailed a county proposal to turn over construction of a new elder-care center to the deposed Fox News chief’s nonprofit and name the facility after him, The Journal News of the Lower Hudson Valley reports.
D.C. May Revisit Payments in Lieu of Taxes for Colleges
Georgetown, George Washington, and other universities in the District hold property that would have added $111 million to city coffers were it not nonprofit-owned, The Washington Post writes.
Watchdog Nonprofit Unveils Database to Trace ‘Dark Money’
The Center for Public Integrity launched a new online tool Tuesday aimed at shedding light on the flow of funds coursing into political campaigns via nonprofits that are not required to identify donors.