Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online
The federal government plans to divide up management of its organ-donor network, run by a single charitable organization since it launched 37 years ago. Hit by accusations of “fraud, waste, and abuse, corruption, even criminality” from at least one lawmaker, the system includes hospitals, laboratories, organ-collection nonprofits, and other services. It has been run by the United Network for Organ Sharing since the National Organ Transplant Act was passed in 1984. But 22 people die each day waiting for an organ, while racial disparities persist and geographical disparities grow. At the same time, organs are being damaged, discarded, or not even collected. In addition, a 2021 assessment found the nonprofit’s technology archaic. The new plan is to break up UNOS’s functions and bid them out to other nonprofits, update technology, install an independent board of directors, and make public data generated by the network. UNOS said it supports the plan and welcomes a competitive bidding process. (Washington Post)
After two years helping stand up the Emancipator, an online publication covering race in America, the Boston Globe is stepping away from the project. The Globe and Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research were founding partners of the nonprofit Emancipator, named for a legendary abolitionist newspaper and launched in 2021 amid a newly fervent period of anti-racism protests. A spokesperson for the Globe said the paper had given the Emancipator “essential media start-up resources” and helped it build a foundation for growth. A top executive at the Emancipator said the arrangement was always for a two-year “runway,” with the possibility of an extension. The publication will operate within Boston University, which she said will help “ ‘streamline’ its fundraising efforts and operations.” (Nieman Lab)
More News
- New England Public Media Cuts 20% of Its Staff (WBUR)
- $100 Million in Donations Later, First Niagara Foundation Signing Off (Buffalo News)
- New Foundation Will Distribute Opioid Trial Settlement Funds in W.V. (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
- Inside the Italian Villa That Launched Some of the World’s Great Philanthropic Programs (Vox)
- The S.C. Player Taking Basketball to Girls in West Africa (New York Times)
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