Drug Firms Are Major Donors to Patient Groups, Study Finds: More than 80 percent of the 104 biggest nonprofits that advocate for people with particular diseases accept money from pharmaceutical and medical-device firms, The New York Times reports, citing newly published research. Industry executives serve on the boards of nearly 40 percent of such groups, which wield influence in debates on drug costs and other health care issues.
Soros-Backed Nonprofits in European Populists’ Cross Hairs: Leaders in Hungary, Poland, and other Central and Eastern European states are pressing for restrictions on pro-democracy and anti-corruption groups funded by Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, anticipating that President Trump will diminish longstanding U.S. support for such organizations, writes The New York Times.
N.J.'s Christie Wants Insurer to Pick Up Charity-Care Burden: Unveiling his budget plan, Gov. Chris Christie called on the nonprofit Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey to devote some of its $2.9 billion surplus to subsidizing programs for needy patients, particularly addiction treatment, the Press of Atlantic City reports. Mr. Christie has slashed state aid to hospitals for charity care in recent years.
Family-Planning Donor Conference Draws $190 Million: A $50 million pledge from an unnamed American donor was among the commitments by governments and philanthropists at the hastily convened international meeting aimed at filling funding gaps left by President Trump’s ban on U.S. family-planning aid to foreign nonprofits that offer abortion services, reports the Associated Press.
Opinion: Blame Board for Mess at Metropolitan Museum of Art: Responsibility for financial and managerial turmoil that led to director Thomas Campbell’s resignation rests “100 percent” with the institution’s trustees for putting Mr. Campbell, then a curator with no administrative experience, in charge of the country’s largest museum in 2008, a Wall Street Journal arts editor writes (subscription).
Fundraising “Mom Prom” Trend Spreads: Started a decade ago in suburban Detroit, Mom Prom parties — in which women don old prom, bridesmaid, and wedding gowns for an evening of retro revelry, with ticket sales raising thousands of dollars for local charities — have gained popularity nationwide and will number about 80 this year, writes the Associated Press.
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