Nonprofit News From Elsewhere
Nonprofit websites are loaded with ad trackers, third-party cookies, and sometimes ‘session recorders’ that can capture the keystrokes of visitors. Some also communicate with large companies that act as data brokers, collecting and selling huge packages of information about visitors’ habits. And some have trackers letting Facebook and Google know that a visitor has been on the site. Of 23,856 nonprofit websites examined, “86 percent had third-party cookies or tracking network requests,” and 439 loaded session recorders. These practices concern privacy advocates, who point out that nonprofit websites can deal with intensely personal issues, such as abortion, mental health, or drug use. In response to these findings, some nonprofit leaders said they needed the technology to compete with for-profit businesses in the same field or to improve their sites, while others said they will review the practices. (TNW)
Some of Joe Biden’s ambitious ideas for revamping the tax code have lost steam, but the Senate has yet to weigh in, and wealthy taxpayers and donors should be planning defensively. Lawson Bader, president and CEO of DonorsTrust, which provides services for donors seeking to support conservative causes writes that Biden seems to have backed away from a campaign proposal to lower the cap on itemized deductions, including charitable gifts, from 37 percent to 28 percent for those in higher tax brackets. On the other hand, wealthy taxpayers might want to speed up charitable giving to soften the bite of a proposed capital-gains tax rate hike for higher income brackets. (Kiplinger)
Plus: How American Billionaires Like Phil Knight Pass Wealth to Heirs Tax-Free (Bloomberg)
Big Gifts for Education
- Private School in Claremont, Calif., Gets $100 Million Donation (MyNewsLA.com)
- Apple Gives $25 Million to CSUN to Build a Hispanic-Serving Institution Hub for Its STEM Program (Daily Sundial)
More News
- Rhode Island Set to Be First State to Pilot Safe-Injection Sites for Drug Users (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
- ‘Self-Care’ Isn’t the Fix for Late-Pandemic Malaise. What We Need Is to Take Care of Others. (Atlantic)
Arts and Culture
- Cambodia Says the Met Museum Has Dozens of Its Looted Antiquities (New York Times)
- Black Museum Suggests Melting Down Robert E. Lee Statue to Make New Art (Washington Post)
