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May 13, 2008

News Briefing: Retiring Microsoft Official to Run Gates Foundation

  • Microsoft executive Jeffrey Raikes has been named the new chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  [New York Times]
  • The United Nations presses the junta in Myanmar to accept international assistance.  [New York Times]
  • Jeffrey Raikes speaks about the transition from technology to nonprofits.  [Wall Street Journal]
  • The American Red Cross might relocate some of its employees to a satellite office in Northern Virginia to generate additional revenue.  [Washington Post]

Posted at 10:00 AM in Disasters, Foundations, Gates, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 30, 2008

News Briefing: Charities See Opportunity for Donations as Rebates Reach Taxpayers

  • The Montana Supreme Court says the Board of the Charles M. Bair Family Museum breached its fiduciary duties, orders a new board to be formed.  [New York Times]
  • Charities see potential in tapping young Web users to promote their causes online.  [Chicago Tribune]
  • More companies subsidize donations of time and talent for employees looking to volunteer.  [Wall Street Journal]

Posted at 10:23 AM in Arts, Corporate Philanthropy, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 18, 2008

News Briefing: Buried Red Sox Jersey Is Up For Auction

  • The Jimmy Fund, the official charity of the Boston Red Sox, auctions off the jersey that was buried under the new Yankees' stadium.  [Washington Post]
  • Charities walk a fine line when wealthy benefactors don't pay off their pledges.  [Chicago Tribune]

Posted at 10:09 AM in Celebrities, Private Philanthropy, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 09, 2008

News Briefing: Former Corporate Executive to Run Red Cross

  • The American Red Cross selects a former senior executive at AT & T as its new president and chief executive.  [New York Times]
  • Google unveils a new feature that will map aid humanitarian operations to inform the public about the millions who have fled their homes due to violence or hardship.  [Associated Press]
  • The Woodruff Foundation commits $200 million to Grady Memorial Hospital.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 10:07 AM in Healthcare, International, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 03, 2008

News Briefing: Leader Quits at the Mount, Former Home of Wharton

  • The president of the Edith Wharton Restoration resigns; organization in financial trouble after unrealistic fundraising expections create an unsustainable level of debt.  [New York Times]
  • The Gates Foundation donates $26.8 million to Cornell University to combat the emergence of rust disease on wheat.  [Associated Press]
  • Brian McNamee sells dozens of personal items in an online auction and will donate the profits to his juvenile diabetes charity.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 10:07 AM in Celebrities, Foundations, Gates, Healthcare, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 28, 2008

News Briefing: Volunteering Abroad to Climb at I.B.M.

  • Washington State University receives a $25 million grant from the Gates Foundation to study infectious diseases.  [Associated Press]
  • I.B.M. announces a new Corporate Service Corps program, which enables employees to volunteer abroad.  [New York Times]
  • The Wikipedia Foundation recieves $3 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.  [Washington Post]

Posted at 10:44 AM in Diseases, Foundations, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 14, 2008

News Briefing: Weakness in Economy Isn’t Hurting Charities

  • The Boston Ballet is shrinking its number of dancers by nearly twenty percent.  [New York Times]
  • Facebook is increasingly becoming a place for people to link up to civic-minded pursuits, including blood donations.  [New York Times]
  • Despite the economic downturn, charities say their fundraising efforts have not been hurt.  [New York Times]
  • Ned Rifkin, the Smithsonian Institution's undersecretary for art, announces his resignation.  [Washington Post]

Posted at 09:43 AM in Arts, Economics, Technology | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

February 25, 2008

News Briefing: A Capitalist Jolt for Charity

  • Social entrepreneurs treat charitable contributions more like venture capital investments.  [New York Times]
  • The New York Philharmonic becomes the most prominent U.S. cultural institution to visit North Korea.  [Associated Press]

Posted at 10:02 AM in Arts, Social Entrepreneurship, Technology | | 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 20, 2008

News Briefing: College Donations Go Up in 2007

  • The Israel Museum opens an exhibit of important art looted by the Nazis from France and then returned after the war.  [New York Times]
  • Donations to colleges and universities rose to a record of nearly $30 billion in 2007.  [Associated Press]
  • Google.org teams up with the Soros Economic Development Fund and Omidyar Network to fund a $17 million company that will invest in India.  [Associated Press]
  • Princeton works to create a program that will send interested students on a year of social service work in a foreign country before they start as freshmen.  [New York Times]

Posted at 09:43 AM in Arts, Education, Technology, Volunteers | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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