News Briefing: Cultural Boards Get Younger Look

• A study by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy says that only 11 percent of American foundations devoted at least half their grants to programs that benefit vulnerable students.  [Associated Press]

 

• The Supreme Court will decide whether patents on inventions that arise from federally-funded research must go to the university where the inventor worked.  [Associated Press]

 

• New York's elite cultural boards begin recruiting trustees under 40.  [Wall Street Journal]

 

• Newark's Cory Booker has raised $240 million for parks, schools, and police since taking office in 2006.  [Bloomberg]