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October 20, 2008

News Briefing: Museums Fear Lean Days Ahead

  • Bloomberg is criticized for asking nonprofit groups to support legislation allowing him to seek a third term in office.  [New York Times]
  • Museum directors across the country are bracing for the effects of an economic crisis.  [New York Times]
  • A British aid worker is killed by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan.  [Reuters]
  • Lobbyists, corporations, and interest groups have given $13 million to charities and nonprofits in honor of more than 200 members of the House and Senate.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:07 AM in Arts, Government, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

September 09, 2008

News Briefing: Charities Uneasy After Federal Takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

  • The Heinz Family Foundation announces its $250,000 award winners.  [Associated Press]
  • College presidents and policy experts defend the rising costs of tuition and argue against forcing colleges to spend more of their endowments.  [New York Times]
  • The government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac make charities in the D.C. area uneasy about future funding.  [Washington Post]

Posted at 10:04 AM in Corporate Philanthropy, Education, Foundations, Government | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 19, 2008

News Briefing: Whitney Museum to Receive $131 Million Gift

  • Leonard Lauder's art foundation donates $131 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art.  [New York Times]
  • State deficits force budget cuts to programs that serve the needy.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 09:58 AM in Arts, Foundations, Government | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

February 21, 2008

News Briefing: Stanford Set to Raise Aid for Students in Middle

  • Fisk University has raised enough money to finish renovations, despite its ongoing dispute with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum over control of paintings donated by the artist.  [Associated Press]
  • Stanford University becomes the latest university to expand financial aid well into the middle class - students from families earning less than $100,000 a year will not be charged tuition.  [New York Times]
  • Two contests sponsored by Parade magazine, Facebook, and the Case Foundation spur online giving.  [Washington Post]
  • The 1.9 million-member Service Employees International union is trying to force nonprofits to comply with standards of governing similar to those that federal law requires of private companies.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:35 AM in Arts, Education, Government, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

February 19, 2008

News Briefing: A $1 Million Donation to a College, and $250,000 to Explain It

  • Philanthropy might not be enough for Mike Bloomberg, some of those who know him say.  [New York Times]
  • Con artists rip off a Girl Scout group in Westminster, Colorado, buying cookies with a fake $100 bill.  [Associated Press]
  • The chief of malaria for the W.H.O. has complained about the growing influence of the Gates Foundation.  [New York Times]
  • Patricia Cornwell donates $1 million to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and buys $250,000 worth of ads to explain quotes taken out of context.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:16 AM in Accountability, Government, Healthcare, Private Philanthropy | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

February 15, 2008

News Briefing: Auction Nets Over $40 Million For AIDS In Africa

  • The (Red) Auction at Sotheby's raises $42.6 million to fight AIDS in Africa.  [Reuters]
  • U.S. aid to Africa helps Bush's popularity in that region of the world.  [Associated Press]
  • Peter Peterson, the billionaire co-founder of the Blackstone Group, unveils plans for the Peterson Foundation, which he expects to grow to $1 billion.  [New York Times]

Posted at 09:48 AM in Foundations, Government, HIV/AIDS | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

January 29, 2008

News Briefing: Federal Probe of Stolen Art Goes National

  • San Francisco's five nonprofit hospitals received $79 million in tax breaks and spent only $16 million on charity care.  [San Francisco Chronicle]
  • The March of Dimes has expanded its focus to include all things infant.  [Washington Post]
  • Approximately 500 Afghan women protest against the kidnapping of an American aid worker.  [Associated Press]
  • A federal investigation into looted Asian antiquities has broadened from southern California to include a prominent Chicago art collector.  [Los Angeles Times]
  • President Bush's Freedom Corps - the volunteer initiative he began in 2002 - has fallen short of some of its goals.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:22 AM in Accountability, Arts, Children, Government, International, Volunteers | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

January 23, 2008

News Briefing: Stove for the Developing World’s Health

  • The new director of the National Museum of the American Indian is unconcerned about the scrutiny that awaits him in his public role.  [New York Times]
  • The Shell Foundation and Envirofit International introduce the first market-based model for clean-burning wood stove technology to the developing world.  [New York Times]
  • Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez is accused of using funds given to a nonprofit for political purposes.  [Los Angeles Times]
  • Caltech receives an eight-year, $24 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to establish a space studies institute.  [Los Angeles Times]
  • Miles Lerman, founder of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, dies.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 09:40 AM in Accountability, Arts, Government, International, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

December 20, 2007

News Briefing: In Charity and Politics, Clinton Donors Overlap

  • Two former hedge-fund analysts rigorously evaluate charities' effectiveness.  [New York Times]
  • The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation creates a new program to lure top students into teaching.  [New York Times]
  • Fundraising for the William J. Clinton Foundation has become a campaign issue for Hillary.  [New York Times]
  • Bell ringers form the front lines of the Salvation Army's most important fundraising drive.  [Washington Post]
  • The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria challenges portions of a recent Los Angeles Times article.  [Los Angeles Times]

Posted at 10:28 AM in Education, Foundations, Gates, Government, HIV/AIDS, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

December 07, 2007

News Briefing: How Groups of the Rich Diverge in Philanthropy

  • Children along the Gulf Coast struggle with mental health problems after 2005 hurricanes.  [New York Times]
  • Barack Obama unveils plan to expand national service programs.  [Chicago Tribune]
  • California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals the names of donors to the California State Protocol Foundation, a nonprofit that has funded his trips by private jet.  [Los Angeles Times]
  • Center on Philanthropy's Portraits of Donors study uncovers patterns in giving among the nation's wealthiest donors.  [Washington Post]
  • Massachusetts Attorney General clears the Citi Performing Arts Center after an inquiry cites some procedural lapses, but no legal wrongdoing.  [Boston Globe]

Posted at 09:36 AM in Arts, Children, Disasters, Government, Private Philanthropy, Volunteers | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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