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September 02, 2008

News Briefing: Former Microsoft Exec is New Gates Foundation CEO

  • A London-based coalition launches funding scheme to address concerns about existing trade in carbon credits.  [Reuters]
  • North Korea needs $503 million in food aid between now and November 2009, according to the U.N. World Food Programme.  [Reuters]
  • A humanitarian aid flight carrying 17 people crashes in eastern Congo.  [Associated Press]
  • Google.org will convene African health, weather, insect, and climate experts in Nairobi to identify research gaps and opportunities for collaboration.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:03 AM in Africa, Environment, Gates, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

July 28, 2008

News Briefing: World War II Camp Preservation Proves Difficult

  • As the seventh anniversary of the Clinton Foundation's arrival in Harlem approaches, community wounds with the former president need to be healed.  [New York Times]
  • Princeton Review's annual guide to colleges will now include a "green rating."  [New York Times]
  • The National Park Service and grass-roots organizations try to restore a block of barracks in Idaho to recreate the living conditions that rouhgly 13,000 Japanese Americans experienced at the camp.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 10:55 AM in Arts, Environment | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

June 20, 2008

News Briefing: Carell Hosts Charity Screening of `Get Smart'

  • Japanese police arrested two Greenpeace activists on suspicion of stealing about fifty pounds of whale meat.  [Associated Press]
  • The ACLU files a request in Dallas to have two Muslim organizations removed from a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case.  [Dallas Morning News]

Posted at 09:43 AM in Celebrities, Environment, Terrorism | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

May 07, 2008

News Briefing: Bush Offers Navy Units, Criticizes Junta as Storm Aid Begins to Reach Rangoon

  • A Long Island philanthropist and fundraiser for Israeli charities is at the center of a growing storm surrounding Ehud Olmert.  [New York Times]
  • A nonprofit group releases its second annual ranking of 56 consumer companies on their green track records.  [New York Times]
  • Bush offers U.S. Navy units to help in international relief efforts in Myanmar.  [Washington Post]
  • A Tulsa businessman sues the Lance Armstrong Foundation in a trademark dispute.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 09:26 AM in Celebrities, Disasters, Environment, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 22, 2008

News Briefing: Hollywood Eagerly Embraces Environmental Cause

  • PETA to pay $1 million to the first person to produce in vitro meat that is commercially viable.  [Associated Press]
  • On Earth Day, some wonder if Hollywood is doing enough for the environment.  [Reuters]
  • Under pressure from parents, Congress, and one another, colleges tweak the financial aid model.  [New York Times]
  • Arts institutions feel the pinch from the faltering economy.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 09:48 AM in Arts, Celebrities, Education, Environment | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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]

Posted at 09:25 AM in Africa, Arts, Celebrities, Education, Environment | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

January 31, 2008

News Briefing: Charities Vie for Prizes in Online Giving Experiment

  • An experimental online fundraising contest sponsored by the Case Foundation seeks to demonstrate the power of grass-roots philanthropy.  [New York Times]
  • The National Science Foundation announces a $50 million grant to a collaboration of botanists and computer scientists led by the University of Arizona.  [Associated Press]
  • The federal investigation into the smuggling of looted antiquities has expanded to include artifacts allegedly stolen from Central America.   [New York Times]
  • The W.K. Kellogg Foundation announces a $3 million grant to the Martin Luther King Memorial.  [Washington Post]

Posted at 09:45 AM in Arts, Environment, Foundations, Technology, Web | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

January 30, 2008

News Briefing: Learning to Mix Business With Art

  • Philanthropy feeds dozens of Washington's top think tanks.  [New York Times]
  • An anonymous donor gives $130 million to rebuild hundreds of schools and shelters destroyed by the cyclone along Banladesh's southwest coast.  [Associated Press]
  • Crossroads, a new homeless shelter in Oakland, may be the only green homeless shelter built from the ground up.  [New York Times]
  • Museum curators foster business skills in the inaugural class of the Center for Curatorial Leadership.  [New York Times]

Posted at 11:14 AM in Arts, Environment, International, Private Philanthropy | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

January 08, 2008

News Briefing: Founder of a Nonprofit Is Punished by Its Board

  • Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta, faces the prospect of losing its accreditation.  [New York Times]
  • Yale plans on spending $1.15 billion of its endowment in fiscal year 2009 in order to provide more financial aid, bolster scientific research, and make the university's resources more widely available.  [Washington Post]
  • Holden Karnofsky, founder of GiveWell, is demoted after promoting the organization on a Web site by posing as a prospective donor.  [New York Times]
  • An Islamic group has withdrawn its offer of $1.5 million to Temple University, after concerns were raised about the group's possible links to terrorism.  [Philadelphia Inquirer]
  • The E.P.A. introduces a public education campaign aimed at getting consumers to recycle their cell phones.  [New York Times]

Posted at 09:57 AM in Education, Environment, Healthcare, Technology, Terrorism | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 19, 2007

News Briefing: Gift to Smithsonian Is Rescinded

  • The American Petroleum Institute has rescinded a controversial $5 million gift to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History's Ocean Initiative exhibition hall.  [New York Times]
  • Clinton Foundation raised more than $135 million last year; questions raised about donor transparency in light of Hillary's presidential bid.  [Los Angeles Times]

Posted at 09:50 AM in Accountability, Arts, Environment | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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