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June 09, 2009

News Briefing: Insider Appointed Chairwoman of Lincoln Center

  • Katherine Farley, a senior managing director at Tishman Speyer and head of Lincoln Center's redevelopment project, has been appointed the chairwoman of Lincoln Center.  [New York Times]
  • The Napa Valley wine auction scales down, raising about $5.7 million.  [Associated Press]
  • Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is expected to request funding from Washington this week.  [Washington Post]
  • San Francisco's tax assesor accuses the Archdiocese of San Francisco of dodging taxes.  [San Francisco Chronicle]

Posted at 11:29 AM in Africa, Arts, Religion | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 31, 2009

News Briefing: Foundation Giving in ’08 Defied Huge Asset Decline

  • Although the country's foundations lost nearly $150 billion in assets last year, foundation giving held steady.  [New York Times]
  • Brooke Astor's son begins trial for charges that he defrauded his mother out of millions of dollars.  [New York Times]
  • President Obama urges Sudan to allow aid groups back into the country.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:48 AM in Africa, Foundations, Government | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 23, 2009

News Briefing: Aid Groups’ Expulsion, Fears of More Misery

  • Like all arts institutions, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra was hit hard by the economic crisis.  [New York Times]
  • Foundations in Detroit shift their giving priorities to tend to local charities.  [New York Times]
  • The expulsion of aid groups that provided clean water, medical treatment, food and shelter for millions in Darfur has put the lives of millions of displaced people at risk.  [New York Times]
  • The Taproot Foundation, which places business executives in charities to work as pro bono consultants, saw a 171 percent increase in volunteer interest in January.  [San Francisco Chronicle]
  • Nonprofit and public interest groups are scrambling to adapt to President Obama's stringent new ethics guidelines.  [Washington Post]

Posted at 10:17 AM in Africa, Arts, Foundations | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 16, 2009

News Briefing: From Ranks of Jobless, a Flood of Volunteers

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art announces layoffs and warns that more may follow.  [New York Times]
  • Sudan's president wants all international aid groups to leave his country within a year.  [Associated Press]
  • The newly unemployed flood nonprofit organizations, looking for volunteer opportunities.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:12 AM in Africa, Arts, Volunteers | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

January 16, 2009

News Briefing: Cuomo Said to Subpoena Merkin, 15 Nonprofit Groups

  • New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenas J. Ezra Merkin and 15 nonprofit entities in his Madoff investigation.  [Bloomberg]
  • A new study finds that college students are covering a bigger share of the costs of a college education.  [New York Times]
  • Kenya's president asks international donors for $406 million toward emergency food aid.  [Associated Press]
  • A North Dakota state legislator says that local governmenets should be able to levy property taxes on nonprofits to defray the cost of providing them with fire and police protection.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 10:10 AM in Africa, Education, Finance, Government | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

January 06, 2009

News Briefing: Foundation Won't Disclose Bush Library Donors

  • The Chesapeake Bay Foundation leads a group in suing the EPA.  [Washington Post]
  • Bush orders an immediate airlift to deliver vehicles and equipment to Darfur.  [New York Times]
  • The George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation will not disclose its donors.  [Associated Press]
  • Since the Boston Archdiocese closed St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church in 2004, parishioners have kept a vigil inside the church so that it cannot be put up for sale.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:34 AM in Africa, Environment, Foundations, Religion | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

December 09, 2008

News Briefing: Gates Grants Aim to Help Low-Income Students Finish College

  • Clara Miller, President and Chief Executive of Nonprofit Finance Fund, urges nonprofits to tame their impulses to do more in the current economy.  [Financial Times]

  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announces $70 million in grants as part of an ambitious initiative to double the number of low-income students who earn a college degree by age 26.  [New York Times]


  • The Gates Foundation ensures media coverage of global health issues by supporting news organizations.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:50 AM in Africa, Education, Gates, Healthcare | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 26, 2008

News Briefing: Big Players Scale Back Charitable Donations

  • Some of the country's universities try to sell pieces of their portfolios privately.  [New York Times]
  • A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented thousands of deaths if it had provided antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients.  [New York Times]
  • Nearly 100,000 people in eastern Congo receive aid from the U.N. Children's Fund.  [Associated Press]
  • Roger Clemens is asked to end his involvement with a charity golf tournament as his reputation continues to suffer from the Mitchell Report.  [Associated Press]
  • Even the titans of philanthropy - including the Gates Foundation, David Koch, and Sheldon Adelson - are rattled by current economic conditions.  [Wall Street Journal]

Posted at 10:32 AM in Africa, Education, Fundraising, Science | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 18, 2008

News Briefing: At Meeting, Smithsonian Practices New Openness

  • The Smithsonian Institution holds its first public board meeting as part of its new commitment to openness and accountability.  [New York Times]

  • The U.S. military hopes to undermine the roots of terrorism in Africa by building clinics, digging wells, inoculating cattle, and offering other services.  [Chicago Tribune]

  • Leaders of six nonprofits discuss what their organizations are doing to address the tough economic times.  [CNN]

Posted at 10:20 AM in Africa, Arts, Terrorism | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 10, 2008

News Briefing: UN Using Food Aid as Lever to Lift African Farmers

  • Gerard Mortier, who was to become director of New York City Opera in 2009, parts way with the board.  [New York Times]
  • The U.N.'s World Food Program will spend $1 billion buying food for the hungry this year, in an effort to stimulate farmers in developing countries to produce more.  [Associated Press]
  • A medical trial involving 16,000 children across Africa may start as early as next month.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 10:09 AM in Africa, Arts, Gates | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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