News Briefing: Los Angeles Archdiocese Hopes to Raise $100 Million for Catholic Schools

• U.S officials improperly seized assets of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Oregon.  [Reuters]

 

• The federal government will give 15 Massachusetts community colleges $20 million to increase workforce training programs in industries facing a shortage of technically skilled employees.  [Boston Globe]

 

• The Los Angeles Archdiocese hopes to raise $100 million for Catholic schools.  [Los Angeles Times]

News Briefing: Carnegie Mellon Receives $265 Million Pledge

• The Museum of the City of New York will take over the Seaport Museum New York.  [New York Times]

 

• Carnegie Mellon receives a $265 million pledge from a former steel executive.  [Associated Press]

 

• Angel Food Ministries in Atlanta suspends food deliveries for the month.  [Atlanta Journal-Constitution.]

News Briefing: Oxfam Staff in Haiti Sacked over Abuse of Power, Bullying

• Does Steve Jobs give anonymously, or not at all?  [New York Times]

 

• September 11 changed the way Americans respond to disasters.  [CNNMoney]

 

• Oxfam has fired six foreign staff members working in Haiti for abuse of power.  [Reuters]

News Briefing: Soros Nonprofit's Big Move

• The Governor of Massachusetts awards grants to public colleges based on plans to boost academic performance.  [Boston Globe]

 

• Open Society Foundations plans to move into the Argonaut Building for the next 30 years.  [Wall Street Journal]