Philanthropist Urges Congress to Force More Giving From Donor-Advised-Funds and Foundations

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GOVERNMENT AND REGULATION [Philanthropist Urges Congress to Force More Giving From Donor-Advised-Funds and Foundations]( By Marc Gunther [image] In an effort to move money out of private foundations and donor-advised funds and into the hands of charities that can put the money to work right away, billionaire philanthropist John Arnold and Boston College law professor Ray Madoff have drafted a proposal calling for Congress to make sweeping… ADVERTISEMENT [Advertisement]( [Advertisement]( [Advertisement]( FUNDRAISING [Without Big Events, a Ronald McDonald House Charity Learns to Reach New Donors Online]( By Emily Haynes [image] Despite some online fundraising success, the Chicago area nonprofit expects at least a 25 percent shortfall in fundraising revenue this year. OPINION [To Help the Formerly Incarcerated, Support Change at the Intersection of Health and Justice]( By Paula Thompson and Victoria Palacio [image] If philanthropists are genuinely committed to anti-racism, improving public health, and ensuring justice for all, helping formerly incarcerated people integrate successfully into communities is an excellent place to start. Paid for and Created by Independent Sector [Interrupting the Roads to Ruin Even in a Pandemic]( Shifting and adapting to the needs of the student as well as their family, 1Nation Mentoring emphasizes the importance of wrap-around services, providing guidance, advice, support, and the structure needed to help communities thrive in every situation. Nonprofit News from Elsewhere The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is joining with 16 major drug makers to ensure treatments and a vaccine for the coronavirus can be quickly and fairly distributed around the world. In announcing the effort, Bill Gates said nearly half the world's people live in poorer countries that could afford to vaccinate only about 14 percent of their populations. The pharmaceutical companies, which include giants AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Gilead, GSK, Novartis, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, signed on to a commitment to "do everything in our power to make sure they reach everyone who needs them, no matter where they live or what they can pay," though their video communique offered no specifics. ([US News & World Report]( Hundreds of artists have signed an open letter urging four major museums to reinstate an exhibit of Philip Guston's work, whose later paintings show depictions of Ku Klux Klan figures. Officials at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, said they delayed the show for four years to provide greater context for the pieces, considering the current attention to matters of race and racism. But the signers of the letter, which was spearheaded by some of America's greatest living artists, accuse the institutions of fearing controversy and insulting their audience. A catalog for the show, which "discusses Guston’s engagement with racism and anti-Semitism in depth," had already been printed. ([New York Times]( Commentary: Ford Foundation’s President is Apologizing for the Wrong Thing (Opinion: [Washington Post]( News About Leaders - Smithsonian Taps N.Y. 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