In Maryland, Congressman and Wife Give $10 to Mental Health and Hillel

Plus, Teen Vogue and podcasts are in the tool kit as foundations try to inspire new thinking about capitalism and a scholar’s view on how to curb gun violence. ADVERTISEMENT [Philanthropy Today Logo]( Did someone forward you this newsletter? [Sign up free]( to receive your own copy. GIFTS ROUNDUP [Maryland Congressman and Wife Give $10 Million for Mental-Health Services and Hillel]( By Maria Di Mento [STORY IMAGE]( Plus, MacKenzie Scott strikes again: The billionaire novelist gave nearly $39 million to Junior Achievement USA, her second eight-figure gift in the last two weeks. ADVERTISEMENT TOMORROW'S ECONOMY [Teen Vogue, Podcasts, Photo Essays: How Foundations Aim to Inspire New Thinking About Capitalism]( By Marc Gunther [STORY IMAGE]( Several big foundations have set their sights on college textbooks, documentary films, and other means to make America’s future more just. PUBLIC SAFETY [Reducing Gun Violence Takes Multiple Approaches]( By Thomas D. 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As a result, an office that had a staff of about 120 lawyers and accountants in the 1990s now exercises vanishingly little oversight of hundreds of small nonprofits and cannot fund probes into potentially illegal political activity by tax-exempt groups. Meanwhile, some recent high-profile scandals and at least one independent assessment have revealed major nonprofit fraud or irregularities that the office did not catch, even as a Trump-era law is about to further rein in regulators and break up the office entirely. “For all intents and purposes, the IRS is getting out of the tax-exempt services business,” said Marcus Owens, a former director of the office. ([New Republic]( subscription) More News - A Migrant Wave Tests New York City’s Identity as the World’s Sanctuary ([New York Times]( - Vance’s Anti-Drug Charity Enlisted Doctor Echoing Big Pharma ([Associated Press]( - Anti-Vaccine Group Chaired by Robert F. 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