White House Set to Roll Back Contraceptive Mandate: Administration officials are reviewing an “interim final rule” to relax the Affordable Care Act mandate that workplace health insurance cover birth-control services, reports The New York Times. President Trump promised to roll back the requirement, which is being challenged in court by Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious nonprofits.
Opinion: Revitalizing NAACP Means Looking for Leadership in New Places: The iconic civil-rights group has become an “entrenched bureaucracy,” far removed from the antidiscrimination front lines, and in seeking a new president should look to grass-roots organizers and vulnerable communities, Wake Forest University political scientist Melissa Harris-Perry writes in a New York Times column. Read a Chronicle column about the lack of foundation support for black-led activist groups.
Charlotte Property Boom Leaves Salvation Army Holiday Program Homeless: The charity’s massive toy-distribution effort, one of the largest in the southeast, is scrambling to find a temporary site following the sale of its longtime, rent-free hub at a former Walmart in a section of the North Carolina city that is being redeveloped, The Charlotte Observer reports.
Tech Mogul Charles Chen Tops Forbes Roster of Chinese Donors: Mr. Chen, co-founder of internet giant Tencent, gave $348 million last year to support education, ranking him No. 1 on the magazine’s latest China Philanthropy List, which focuses on that cause. Another Forbes article looks at how Tencent has used its social-media business to shake up Chinese giving.
Leadership Churn Roils El Museo del Barrio: The New York City museum of Latino art fired one of the two senior executives who have been running the institution pending the arrival of a new director, its third in seven years, writes The New York Times. Budget troubles have forced the museum to cut staff and reduce operating hours in recent years.
Egypt Ratifies Law Restricting Nonprofit Activities: The measure — the latest move in a clampdown on nonprofits that rights groups say aims to quash opposition to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi — limits the country’s 46,000 nonprofits to social and development work and subjects violators to dissolution and jail terms of up to five years, Reuters reports.
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