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Philanthropy Today
Monday, February 26, 2018
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Top News and Features From The Chronicle
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[Gifts Roundup: Clooney, Katzenberg, Spielberg, and Winfrey Pledge $2 Million to Student Gun Activists](
Also, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton gives $50 million to a new tech charity, and the Hammer Museum at UCLA announces $50 million in gifts to its capital campaign.
Plus, see the Chronicle’s [database]( of gifts of $1 million or more.
[Leader Shares Her Life Story to Promote Corporate Jobs for Youths]( [premium]
Urban Alliance CEO Eshauna Smith works to make sure low-income high-school students, many of them minorities, get opportunities like the one she had.
[Opinion: Promoting Diversity and Pushing for Effectiveness Go Hand in Hand]( [premium]
While some experts have suggested that groups promoting social justice are hurt by grant-making efforts that focus on results, it doesn’t need to be that way. Fay Twersky and Lissette Rodriguez, two grant makers, offer ideas on how to tackle the challenge.
Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online
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Top News
[Behind a Key Anti-Labor Case,]( a Web of Conservative Donors (New York Times)
Public Radio Stations to [Relaunch Shuttered Local News Sites]( DCist and Gothamist (Washington Post)
New Competition Announced for [Obama Foundation Mentoring Program]( for Minority Boys (Chicago Tribune)
[Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Assets Surged]( in 2017. It Won’t Say Why. (San Francisco Chronicle). Plus: See the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s [article on the fund’s growth](.
More About Community Foundations
Oklahoma City Community Foundation Launches $1 Million ['Great Idea’ Challenge]( (Oklahoman)
Ann Arbor Community Foundation Launches [Competition Dedicated to Senior Citizens]( (Crain’s Detroit Business)
About Sexual Misconduct and Nonprofits
Editorial: When [Charity Workers Turn Predatory]( (New York Times)
[James Beard Foundation Asks Randall Goldman to Resign]( From National Advisory Board Over Sexual-Misconduct Charges (Charleston City Paper)
More News
U.S. Donors Balk at [$25 Million Vatican Request]( (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
Nonprofit and Historians [Fight for Slave Cemetery's Life]( (Charlotte Observer)
Downtown San Antonio Nonprofit Spent [Thousands of Tax Dollars to Entertain and Lobby]( (San Antonio Express-News)
Don't Miss What Everyone Else Is Reading
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These were the best-read stories on our site last week:
[Anonymous Bitcoin Donor Rains $56 Million on Stunned Nonprofits](
‘The Pineapple Fund wants to give you $1 million," read one unsolicited email. It sounded like a scam, but the offer, like many others from the donor, was real.
[Opinion: White People in Philanthropy â This Is Our Move]( [premium]
If grant makers are serious about fighting racism, we need to take actions that help promote the growth of nonprofits led by people of color, according to Pamela Shifman, executive director of the NoVo Foundation
[9 Funds Join to Provide $10 Million for Low-Cost Housing Campaigns]( [premium]
Grant makers say itâs no longer enough to provide money to build homes, but they need instead to rally Americans behind ambitious new policies.
[Doâs and Donâts for Building Ties With Donors at Family Foundations]( [premium]
15 ways to improve your odds of gaining support from small grant makers
[Dropboxâs $20 Million Foundation Kicks Off With Unrestricted Grants]( [premium]
The tech company announced its corporate-philanthropy efforts as it reportedly pursues an initial public offering that could put its value as high as $10 billion.
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Job Opportunities
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[Director of Resource Development]( United Way of Passaic County
New Jersey, United States
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District of Columbia, United States
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Florida, United States
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