News Briefing: New York Loses Consummate A-List Philanthropist

• The Ford Foundation names Luis Ubinas, director at McKinsey & Company, as its new President.  [Associated Press]

• The Boy Scouts look to recruit the nation's largest and fastest growing minority:  Latinos.  [Boston Globe]

• A movement grows to make neighborhoods comfortable places for the elderly to grow older.  [New York Times]

• Brooke Astor, "one of the great philanthropists of our time," passes away at 105.  [New York Times]

Latin America faces donation crunch

AP: Latin America faces a dearth of charitable giving as international foundations look to needs elsewhere, while the region's own corporations are donating at rates well below those seen in the developed world, speakers at a regional conference of nongovernmental organizations said Monday.