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Kellogg Company Increases Cereal Donations as Food-Bank Demand Spikes
Apr 24th
The Kellogg cereal company will donate $10-million worth of its products to food banks struggling with a 30 percent jump in demand, reports Bloomberg.
The 3.5 million pounds of Rice Krispies, Frosted Mini-Wheats, and other Kellogg items supplement the 25 million pounds of food the firm gives annually to Feeding America, a charity that supplies products to food banks nationwide.
Kellogg also announced plans to give away $1-million worth of coupons to consumers in exchange for donations to Feeding America.
National Public Radio Takes New Cost-Cutting Steps
Apr 24th
National Public Radio will lay off 13 employees, order furloughs for all staff members, and suspend contributions to employee retirement accounts in its latest round of spending cuts to close a projected $8-million budget gap, The Washington Post reports.
The nonprofit organization, which laid off 64 staff members and eliminated two daily shows in December, said the new cuts are in its information technology, communications, and legal services units and will not affect its programs.
Also: The public-broadcasting station in Philadelphia, WHYY, is eliminating 17 jobs, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Prominent Washington Lawyers Raise Money for Legal Clinic
Apr 24th
A low-key but intense fund-raising campaign led by partners at several high-powered Washington law firms kept a city nonprofit that provides legal services for the homeless afloat, The Washington Post reports.
In six weeks, the lawyers raised nearly $200,000 from some 330 lawyers to help the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless close a 40-percent deficit.
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In the Arts: L.A. Culture Patron Dies; New Theater Grants
Apr 24th
Hannah Locke Carter, a former U.S. national team skier and a leading Los Angeles-area arts patron for more than 40 years, died this week, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Ms. Carter was a longtime trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to which she donated a dozen 17th- and 18th-century Dutch masterpieces in 2003. She and her late husband, Edward D. Carter, were also major backers of the Los Angeles Music Center, San Francisco Opera, UCLA Arts Council, and Hollywood Bowl.
In other arts news, 37 nonprofit professional theaters across the United States will receive $25,000 Shakespeare for a New Generation grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, according to the Los Angeles Times. The money will support performances and education activities in middle and high schools.
Also, the film critic Roger Ebert and his wife, Chaz, have donated $1-million toward establishing a cinema-studies program at Mr. Ebert’s alma mater, the University of Illinois, reports the Chicago Tribune.
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Charity-Focused Web Site Grants ‘Wishes’ to One Donor at a Time
Apr 24th
A charity Web site called Wish Upon a Hero, which is designed to connect people who need help with those who can offer aid, has granted more than 30,000 requests since it got started two years ago, reports USA Today.
Among the wishes it has granted: sending an 89-year-old Pearl Harbor veteran to Hawaii. The group’s founder, Dave Girgenti, said that since the recession hit, the wishes people list have increasingly been for basic needs, such as food or gas money.
Some of the site’s 96,000 active and largely anonymous users term it the “eBay of philanthropy.”
Opinion: AmeriCorps Expansion Is Bad News for Social Entrepreneurship
Apr 24th
Nonprofit groups and philanthropists have reason to be concerned about legislation signed by President Obama this week to greatly expand the federal AmeriCorps program, according to a Wall Street Journal column.
Howard Husock, who heads a social-entrepreneurship initiative at the Manhattan Institute, a right-leaning think tank, writes that the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act could thwart independent, creative new nonprofit groups by tempting them to “lurch after federal dollars and bend toward government directives.”
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