N.Y. State Filings Show Overhaul at Eric Trump Foundation: The president’s son is no longer on the board of the charity, now called Curetivity, that he founded to raise money for children’s-cancer research, Forbes reports. The nonprofit, which has drawn media and regulatory scrutiny for payments to the Trump Organization, pared its formerly 17-member board by more than two-thirds and removed several employees of the Trump family business as directors.
Nonprofits on Frontier in Developing Artificial Intelligence for Good: The head of an accelerator for technology-oriented nonprofits writes on tech-news site Recode about organizations creating data-mining, machine-learning, and “chatbot” messaging tools that are already being used in areas such as education, social services, energy conservation, and human-rights activism.
Younger Donors Drawn to Spend-Down Foundation Approach: Newly wealthy donors’ focus on hands-on giving and quick impact is helping drive interest in limited-life foundations, philanthropy experts tell the Financial Times (subscription) in an article assessing the trend and the challenges it poses to grant makers in how they fund causes and manage assets. Another article in the newspaper’s FT Wealth section examines how tax deductions affect Americans’ giving.
Senate Health Bill Retains Planned Parenthood Restriction: Echoing the House proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act, the Senate’s version unveiled Thursday would strip Medicaid funding for one year from Planned Parenthood clinics that provide nonabortion services to low-income women, a provision opposed by some centrist Republicans, reports The Wall Street Journal (subscription).
Carnegie Medal Honors Head of China’s First Private Foundation: The Thomson Reuters Foundation profiles Meiqing Zhai (sometimes rendered Chak Meihing), a self-made billionaire whose HeungKong Charitable Foundation broke new ground in Chinese philanthropy and generated momentum to give among her wealthy compatriots. Ms. Zhai was one of nine recipients of this year’s Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy announced Thursday.
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