News Briefing: Wal-Mart Charity Gives $50 Million to Teach for America

• Two Schaefer Foundation trustees seek to oust the third.  [Baltimore Sun]

 

• Wal-Mart Foundation gives $50 million to Teach for America.  [Bloomberg]

News Briefing: Flight 93 Charity Members to Run NYC Marathon

• Buffalo Trace Distillery donates bottles of bourbon to charities.  [Bloomberg]

 

• Flight 93 charity members will run in the NYC marathon.  [Wall Street Journal]

News Briefing: Marc Benioff, CEO, Makes Philanthropy a Priority

• Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, donates $100 million for the new UCSF hospital.  [San Francisco Chronicle]

 

• Atlantic Philanthropies gives $627,000 to the Columbia Center for Oral History.  [WNYC]

News Briefing: Bill Gates Talks Teachers, Charters—and Regrets.

• The New York Public Library offers amnesty to thousands of children and young adults with outstanding fines.  [The New York Daily News]

 

• The World Bank pledges more than $500 million for famine victims in Somalia.  [CNN]

 

• Bill Gates discusses his ten year push for school reform.  [Wall Street Journal]

News Briefing: Record Attendance for the Met

• The Gates Foundation provides $42 million in new grants to fund toilet innovations.  [Los Angeles Times]

 

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art announces its highest attendance in 40 years.  [Associated Press]

 

• Tom Golisano donates $20 million for a new children's hospital in Rochester.  [Democrat and Chronicle]

News Briefing: 9/11 Charities Look to Seize Rare Moment

• 9/11 charities look to the tenth anniversary of the attack to rally donors.  [Wall Street Journal]

• Mayor Bloomberg donates $50 million to the Sierra Club to support its nationwide campaign to eliminate coal-fired power plans.  [Washington Post]

• Three nonprofit advocacy groups are denied tax exemption by the I.R.S.  [New York Times]

• The U.N. declares Somalia's food crisis a famine.  [New York Times]

• A prominent Hershey trustee is paid $500,000 for his board service.  [Philadelphia Inquirer]

News Briefing: Gates Foundation: 'We Need to Reinvent the Toilet'

• The Gates Foundation launches a challenge to "reinvent the toilet."  [CNN]

 

• Thriller jacket goes on tour to raise money for charities.  [Associated Press]

 

• City Opera's unions claim its move violates the terms of its endowment.  [New York Times]

News Briefing: Gates Foundation: 'We Need to Reinvent the Toilet'

• The Gates Foundation launches a challenge to "reinvent the toilet."  [CNN]

 

• Thriller jacket goes on tour to raise money for charities.  [Associated Press]

 

• City Opera's unions claim its move violates the terms of its endowment.  [New York Times]

News Briefing: Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!

• Law schools raise tuitions, despite the job market.  [New York Times]

 

• The Newark Museum receives a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  [New York Times]

 

• Suburbs have become hotbeds in the nation's charter school battles.  [New York Times]

 

• Gunmen have kidnapped 8 Pakistanis working for the American Refugee Committee.  [Associated Foreign Press]

News Briefing: Obama to Meet with Gates and Buffett

• A noted New Jersey scientist was killed during a charity bike race.  [Associated Press]

 

• President Obama will meet with Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to discuss private philanthropy.  [Bloomberg]

 

• The Bloomberg Philanthropies grants $24 million to five cities last week.  [Memphis Daily News]