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November 21, 2008

News Briefing: Americans Still Giving, Despite Economic Meltdown

  • Angelina Jolie carefully crafts her image as a philanthropist and devoted mother.  [New York Times]
  • Resilient Americans are still giving to nonprofits, despite the economic meltdown.  [Associated Press]
  • A DARA report finds that U.S. aid is not always apolitical.  [Washington Post]
  • The popular host of public radio's "The Infinite Mind" earned over $1 million giving marketing lectures for drug makers, ties that were not mentioned on the program.  [New York Times]
  • The director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is leaving to become the president of the Royal College of Art in London.  [New York Times]
  • The drastic measures under consideration to rescue MOCA have shocked many arts leaders.  [Los Angeles Times]

Posted at 10:08 AM in Arts, Celebrities, Fundraising, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 14, 2008

News Briefing: Ex-Official of Diabetes Foundation Is Indicted in Theft

  • A former official of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation led a false invoicing scheme that resulted in the theft of more than $1 million from the organization.  [New York Times]
  • The former director of a Brooklyn nonprofit is arrested on charges that he stole more than $500,000 in federal aid.  [New York Times]
  • A Winchester man reaches a deal with Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley Battlesfield Foundation to sell some of his family's land.  [Washington Post]

Posted at 10:42 AM in Accountability, Healthcare, International, Terrorism | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

November 13, 2008

News Briefing: US Cracks Down on Islamic Charity

  • The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plans on opening and running 25 oncology centers abroad over the next decade in partnership with GE Healthcare.  [New York Times]
  • A group of civil rights attorneys file a federal lawsuit claiming racial discrimination by the Louisiana Road Home program.  [Associated Press]
  • The Bush administration cracks down on the Union of Good, an Islamic charity suspected of bankrolling Hamas.  [Associated Press]
  • When funding comes with strings attached, a nonprofit's ability to invest in staff training, improved IT, and other infrastructure systems is compromised.  [Financial Times]

Posted at 10:17 AM in Healthcare, International, Terrorism | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 12, 2008

News Briefing: 'Idol' Gives Back Over $64 Million to Charities

  • A New York Times executive becomes the president and chief executive of National Public Radio.  [New York Times]
  • American Idol allocates $64 million in grants to six charities.  [Associated Press]
  • As formalized philanthropy in the Middle East surges, nonprofits around the world can expect billions of new donated dollars.  [Wall Street Journal]

Posted at 10:21 AM in Arts, Celebrities, Foundations, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 05, 2008

News Briefing: Gates Urges Rich Countries Not to Cut Health Aid

  • Gates urges rich world governments to not cut health aid to the developing world.  [Reuters]
  • The New York City Ballet shortens its summer season.  [New York Times]

Posted at 09:47 AM in Arts, Healthcare, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 04, 2008

News Briefing: Aid Group Says Zimbabwe Misused $7.3 Million

  • The government of Zimbabwe fails to return $7.3 million that was missued to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.  [New York Times]

  • Donor-advised funds can continue to give money to charities from earnings on the investments.  [Bloomberg]

  • The American Lung Association dissolves its Northwest affiliate.  [Associated Press]

  • Spending in 2009 by some of the country's largest foundations is likely to be flat as the companies behind them weather the global financial crisis.  [Reuters]

Posted at 10:21 AM in Healthcare, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

October 21, 2008

News Briefing: Post-Cyclone Aid Divides Myanmar

  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awards $10 million to playwriting organizations and theaters.  [New York Times]
  • While foreign aid has flowed into Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta, equally desparate parts of the country have not received funds.  [New York Times]

Posted at 10:11 AM in Arts, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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 29, 2008

News Briefing: Wall Street Woes Hit Charities, Nonprofits

  • Nonprofits are watching the crisis on Wall Street with apprehension.  [Associated Press]
  • The U.N. receives an additional $16 billion in pledges to fight hunger and malaria.  [New York Times]
  • Paul Newman put an indelible stamp on movies and philanthropy.  [Boston Globe]
  • Lynda and Stewart Resnick donate $45 million in cash and $10 million in art works to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  [New York Times]

Posted at 11:00 AM in Arts, Corporate Philanthropy, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

September 22, 2008

News Briefing: New Chairwoman Poised to Reform Smithsonian

  • The World leaders meeting at the U.N. this week face a global financial crisis that threatens the United Nation's efforts to generate billions of dollars to fight poverty.  [Associated Press]
  • Former head of the Gates Foundation is named chairwoman of the Smithsonian Institution.  [New York Times]
  • Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp raise money for Farm Aid.  [Hartford Courant]

Posted at 10:13 AM in Celebrities, Gates, International | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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