A Nonprofit Develops Low-Cost Birth Control at Great Expense

Plus, philanthropy must stop ignoring the world’s hardest-hit climate victims (opinion), and a study found a dip in donations but resilient donors ADVERTISEMENT [Philanthropy Today Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. WOMEN'S HEALTH [A Nonprofit’s Expensive Road to Inexpensive Birth Control]( By Sono Motoyama [STORY IMAGE]( Medicines360 developed a low-cost hormonal IUD but encountered challenges from the tax code, FDA regulations, and Medicare and Medicaid programs. It also spent $82 million. ADVERTISEMENT OPINION [Philanthropy Must Stop Ignoring the World’s Hardest Hit Climate Victims]( By Tamar Kosky Lazarus [STORY IMAGE]( Donors who are serious about addressing the climate crisis need to pay attention to places like Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp and other nearly invisible communities across the globe. FUNDRAISING RESEARCH [Study: A Dip in Donations — but Donors Remain Committed]( By Emily Haynes [STORY IMAGE]( A volatile economy has taken a toll on fundraising, a new survey finds. But fundraisers have pivoted — and donors are continuing to give despite challenges. BRIDGING DIVIDES [University Presidents Elevate Free Speech Under New Partnership]( By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press [STORY IMAGE]( The Campus Call for Free Expression, funded by the Knight Foundation, is committed to five principles of free expression along with new on-campus programs such as training at freshman orientations and faculty seminars. GRANTS ROUNDUP [Arkansas Children’s Northwest Receives $25 Million for Endowment and Expansion]( By M.J. Prest [STORY IMAGE]( Also, the T. Boone Pickens Foundation has given $20 million to Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Wilmer Eye Institute, and the NBA Foundation awarded $13.5 million to 40 organizations to advance equity in historically marginalized communities. Webinar [Tomorrow: How to Attract Legacy Gifts]( [STORY IMAGE]( How can you inspire donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans? Join us tomorrow, August 17, at 2 p.m. Eastern to learn from two nonprofit fundraisers — one a lawyer and the other a former investment banker — who will share insights and steps to take to attract planned gifts through wills, donor-advised funds, and other giving vehicles from donors of all ages. Even small groups with limited resources can begin raising planned gifts. [Register now.]( SPONSOR CONTENT | The California Endowment [“Good Troublemakers”: Empowering Communities in California]( Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online Open Society Foundations is phasing out much of its grant-making focused on issues internal to the European Union. The $25 billion philanthropy, which founder George Soros has recently transferred to his son Alex, will put more money into other regions, according to an internal email, which did not specify where new funds would flow. A spokesperson said the network will continue to support civil-society groups and Roma communities in the EU and to fund its national foundations in Eurasia, including in Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, and the Western Balkans. “The new model will see the majority of our grant making organized around specific opportunities for impact, to be determined over the coming months,” the spokesperson said. The announcement comes a month after the Open Society Foundations said it would lay off 40 percent of its global staff. ([Reuters]( The Orlando Museum of Art is suing its former director, accusing him of seeking to profit from a planned exhibition of paintings falsely attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat. The lawsuit says Aaron de Groft worked with others to use the museum to confer legitimacy on the fakes, which the conspirators then planned to sell. An email that the filing says came from de Groft demands 30 percent of the proceeds from a sale of a painting “purportedly by Titian” that was one of a series of questionable works to be shown at the Orlando museum. “Let me sell these Basquiats and Pollock and then Titian is up next with a track record. Then I will retire with Maseratis and Ferraris,” it says. De Groft denies “having any financial arrangement with those owners.” The lawsuit says de Groft dismissed staff concerns about the paintings’ provenance and that the museum’s board was kept in the dark about a federal investigation. The board’s chairwoman at the time, however, “was also aware for months that the museum had been subpoenaed by the FBI but had chosen to keep that knowledge under wraps,” according to previous reporting by the New York Times. 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Plus: [‘A Sabbatical Isn’t a Fun Vacation’ — Experts Share How to Do It Right]( CLIMATE CHANGE [How Philanthropy Is Helping Cities Adapt to Extreme Heat]( By Eden Stiffman [STORY IMAGE]( Foundations are supporting efforts to reduce the impact of climate change and to hire chief heat officers. Plus: See our August cover story on [how nonprofits are confronting their own climate perils.]( OPINION [After 4 Decades in the Nonprofit World, I’m Troubled by Philanthropy’s Expanding Footprint]( By Craig Kennedy [STORY IMAGE]( In his new column, former foundation president Craig Kennedy explores what he sees as problematic changes in the social sector. OPINION [In a Landmark Voting Case, Philanthropy and Nonprofits Were Crucial Players. Now We Need to Do More]( By Evan Milligan and Janai Nelson [STORY IMAGE]( Civil-rights and advocacy groups, powered by money from charitable donors, won a victory for Black voters, who are too often left out of decisions in Alabama and elsewhere. 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