Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online
Groups that provide aid to Gaza are increasingly having their bank accounts or payment systems shut down as financial institutions seek to avoid running afoul of sanctions regimes. Leaders of the targeted groups say they carefully vet their partners, and the U.S. Treasury last year reminded banks that providing humanitarian aid is permitted. But banks view these groups’ accounts as too small to justify the expense of due diligence to distinguish between legitimate actors and sanctions-evaders, a lawyer with a Palestinian rights group in Europe said. (Wall Street Journal)
A major donor to Britain’s National Gallery has gotten the last word in a dispute over the building’s design, even though he died in 2022. Workers demolishing the museum’s Sainsbury wing ahead of a reconstruction found tucked inside a false column a note from John Sainsbury, a supermarket magnate whose family reportedly donated millions to build the wing decades ago. “Let it be known that one of the donors of this building is absolutely delighted that your generation has decided to dispense with the unnecessary columns,” wrote Sainsbury, who lost the argument over the column during construction of the wing when then-director Neil MacGregor ruled in the architects’ favor. (New York Times)
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- An Austrian Heiress Recruited Fifty People From All Walks of Life to Redistribute 25 Million Euros — If They Could Agree on How to Spend It. (New Yorker)
- California Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning Legacy and Donor College Admissions (Los Angeles Times)
- In New Orleans, Nonprofits See New Money and New Inclusive Approach From the NBA Foundation (Associated Press)
- Layoffs Hit Food Pantries in D.C. as Costs and Need Soar (Washington Post)
- California Struck a Deal With Google to Fund Local Journalism. Journalists Aren’t Happy About It (Los Angeles Times)
- Do Neighborhoods Really Matter? Columbus Nonprofit Helps Families Move, Gets Big Results (Columbus Dispatch — subscription)
- Las Vegas Nonprofit Execs Make Big Bucks Helping the Poor (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
- Nonprofit Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (Wired)
- Colonial Williamsburg, Where MAGA Granddads and Resistance Moms Go to Learn America’s Most Painful History Lessons (Politico)
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