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June 16, 2008

News Briefing: Mugabe Accuses Aid Agencies Of Working Against Him

  • The three-year renovation of the dinosaur hall at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is completed.  [New York Times]
  • Zimbabwean President accuses foreign aid agencies of using food as a weapon to try to remove him from power.  [Reuters]

June 04, 2008

News Briefing: In a Crackdown, Zimbabwe Curbs Aid Groups

  • Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans have lost access to food and other basic humanitarian assistance as their government suspends international aid.  [New York Times]
  • Europeans still maintain a general view that public support is a social covenant and moral obligation.  [New York Times]

April 07, 2008

News Briefing: Most of Clintons' $10 Million in Charitable Donations Went to Family Foundation

  • American Idol and Fox prepare for their second annual "Idol Gives Back" fundraising appeal.  [New York Times]
  • The Kenyan government is asking donor nations, including the U.S., to provide nearly $500 million to resettle people and rebuild the tens of thousands of burned down homes, businesses, public utilities, and schools.  [New York Times]
  • Seventy-seven percent of nonprofit hospitals are in the black compared to just 61% of for-profit hospitals.  [Wall Street Journal]
  • The majority of the Clintons' charitable contributions over the past eight years has gone to the Clinton Family Foundation.  [Washington Post]

April 02, 2008

News Briefing: A.C.L.U. and State Branch Spar

  • Ted Turner launches a $200 million partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the United Methodist Church to fight malaria in Africa.  [Associated Press]
  • Robert Redford advocates for more arts funding from Congress.  [Associated Press]
  • The South Carolina chapter of the A.C.L.U. is embroiled in a fight over access to tapes of a board committee meeting.  [New York Times]
  • Al Gore launches a $300 million advocacy campaign aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.  [Washington Post]
  • Antioch College rejects alumni group's fundraising offer and moves ahead with plans to shut its doors this summer.  [Associated Press]

April 01, 2008

News Briefing: Donors' Big Gifts Come With no Name Tags

  • Preservationists battle a development proposal for St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan in Greenwich Village.  [New York Times]
  • Many philanthropists choose to remain anonymous, for safety and privacy reasons.  [Los Angeles Times]
  • As costs of food and fuel skyrocket, the U.N.'s World Food Program struggles.  [Los Angeles Times]

March 03, 2008

News Briefing: Crunch Predicted in Nonprofit Sector

  • Drew Barrymore donates $1 million to the World Food Programme; donation will feed thousands of schoolchildren in Kenya.  [Reuters]
  • A new study says that nonprofit groups are not nurturing and retaining tomorrow's leaders properly; sector faces an unprecedented crisis in leadership as a result.  [Washington Post]
  • An alleged tax-fraud scheme involving donations of overvalued art to four museums in southern California exposes larger, unchecked problem with inflated art appraisals.  [Los Angeles Times]
  • A small group of protesters condemn actions of a fundraising professional at Planned Parenthood in Boise.  [Idaho Press-Tribune]

February 06, 2008

News Briefing: Bottom Line for (Red)

  • Some Polytechnic University alumni and trustees challenge N.Y.U.'s plan to merge with the school.  [New York Times]
  • The Red campaign takes the merger of marketing and philanthropy to new levels; detractors criticize lack of transparency.  [New York Times]
  • Mart Green donates $70 million of his family's fortune to rescue Oral Roberts University.  [Associated Press]
  • The Chairman of Target donates millions to establish the Musical Instrument Museum, to open in Phoenix in 2010.  [New York Times]

January 10, 2008

News Briefing: Director (and Voice) of Metropolitan Museum to Retire

  • Philippe de Montebello, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's director for 30 yeras, will retire at the end of the year.  [New York Times]
  • Bono presses Sarkozy to increase aid to developing nations.  [Associated Press]

January 03, 2008

News Briefing: Connecticut Is Criticized on Spending on Smoking

  • Connecticut is criticized on its allocation of the funds it received from the tobacco company settlement nine years ago.  [New York Times]
  • Volunteers for the One Campaign press Republicans and Democrats alike to signal their support for One's agenda.  [Reuters]
  • The Next Generation Foundation, rising out of the community of Indians settling in Greater Boston, raises money from its 60 members to fund projects in India.  [Boston Globe]

November 26, 2007

News Briefing: Starting a New Chapter After Foundation Jobs End

  • Travel company operator Hal Taussig gives away all of his company's profits to help the poor.  [Associated Press]
  • Goldman Sachs starts a donor-driven philanthropy fund that aims to reach $1 billion over the next few years.  [New York Times]
  • Former foundation employees form alumni groups to stay in touch.  [New York Times]
  • The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will sell its collection of rare string instruments for $20 million.  [New York Times]
  • Bono's mission to fight poverty enlists some powerful players.  [Washington Post]
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