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donor stories: 16 news summaries

  $70M in Anonymous Gifts 
 Spark Academic Whodunit 

Nearly $70 million given to colleges nationwide

Apr 25, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A wave of nearly $70 million in mysterious donations to a dozen colleges across the country has set off a happy guessing game in academic circles, the New York Times reports. "Whoever it is wishes to remain anonymous and I, for one, am perfectly happy to respect that,"... More »

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higher education • anonymous • donor • colleges and universities • state colleges

OPINION

Live Kidney Donors Should Be Encouraged, Not Doubted

Activist seeking organ gets help from friends

Mar 27, 09 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Frances Kissling learned she needed a kidney transplant, she took a step most people in her situation never do: She asked dozens of friends and colleagues if they would be willing to donate. "I was bowled over by how people responded," the Catholic feminist activist writes for... More »

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health care • organ donor • kidney transplant • donor • organ donation • transplant list • dialysis • Frances Kissling • Anna Quindlen

analysis

Commerce
Pick Has
Fundraising Skeletons

Locke is no
slam dunk: Malkin

Feb 24, 09 6:30 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama's administration surely hopes Gary Locke will prove a relatively uncontroversial pick for Commerce after the messy Bill Richardson and Judd Gregg nominations. Not likely, writes Michelle Malkin, who covered Locke for the Seattle Times when he was Washington's governor. Locke, she reminds, faced a series of probes from... More »

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campaign finance • Michelle Malkin • campaign fundraising • donor • political donors • political donations • Obama administration • fundraising • Gary Locke

(Newser) - Moved by a video of a young African American girl with leukemia, Rihanna is helping her find a bone marrow donor, People reports. It's the second time the singer has helped a leukemia sufferer seek a match. "When I saw the video of Jasmina it broke my heart,"... More »

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bone marrow • leukemia • donor • Rihanna

 Bill Reaped $100K From 
 Bizman Aided by Hillary 

No quid-pro-quo, say both sides

Jan 4, 09 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - A New York developer donated $100,000 to Bill Clinton’s foundation about the same time Sen. Hillary Clinton pushed for millions in federal assistance that helped the developer, the New York Times reports. Robert J. Congel was building a mall that Clinton supported “purely as part of her... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • charity • donor • New York state • Clinton Foundation

Clinton Donor List Loaded With Foreign Governments

Saudi Arabia tops list

Dec 18, 08 11:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Bill Clinton is disclosing all the donors to his foundation today, and the list is full of foreign interests, the AP reports. Saudi Arabia alone pitched in more than $10 million to Clinton’s causes. Governments from Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy, Jamaica, and India also pitched in, as... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Bill Clinton • donor • Clinton Global Initiative • Frank Giustra • Clinton Foundation

Malaria Fight Gets $3B Booster Shot

Initiative will focus on Africa, stress the need
for persistence

Sep 27, 08 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The global fight against malaria will get an unprecedented $3 billion push from a global alliance of nonprofits, financial institutions, and governments, the Wall Street Journal reports, with a focus on prolonging the effort beyond initial successes. The Global Malaria Action Plan aims for multibillion-dollar yearly funding through 2020, and... More »

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Africa • World Bank • malaria • Bono • aid programs • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • donor

glossies

Lawmakers Get Most Funding From Outside Districts

'Nonresident contributors donate for expressive purposes,' study shows

Aug 30, 08 8:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Candidates running for Congress are increasingly using affluent ZIP codes outside their own districts as "political ATM machines" to fund their campaigns, a new study finds. In the majority of House races in 2004, almost three-quarters of contributions came from donors outside a lawmaker's district—often from Hollywood, Manhattan's... More »

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campaign finance • campaign contributions • campaign fundraising • donor • scientific study • political elite • congressional district

 Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B 

Needs cash to compete with Ivy League

May 29, 08 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prestigious Oxford University is pleading poverty and has begun a campaign to raise funds to make it competitive with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton for academic talent, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The university—actually a collection of individual colleges—aims to raise $2.5 billion, but even that is chump... More »

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Oxford University • donor • Harvard • Cambridge University • Princeton • endowment • Yale • Buckingham University • Higher Education Funding Council • alumni

Sperm Donation Not
'Taxable Labor' for Danes

Sperm banks warned identity disclosure would kill the thriving exports

Feb 6, 08 7:12 AM CST
(Newser) - The Danish government has thought better of a plan to tax earnings from sperm donation just as it taxes any other job, Der Spiegel reports. The catch is that it would have required donors to disclose their identities, which sperm banks said would drive away 93% of their business.... More »

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fertility • sperm • in vitro fertilization • Denmark • donor • fertility treatment • sperm bank • sperm donors

Hillary to Repay $850K From Hsu

FBI probes contributions from 'straw donors'

Sep 11, 07 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton's campaign will return $850,000 raised by Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, a fugitive from a 1991 fraud conviction who turned himself in and then skipped out on a Bay Area court hearing last week. Clinton had planned to give $23,000 from Hsu to charity, but has since... More »

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Hillary Clinton • FBI • campaign funds • Eliot Spitzer • donation • Norman Hsu • donor • Election 2008

Feds Arrest Fugitive Fundraiser in Colorado

Hsu didn't show for
Cali court appearance 

Sep 7, 07 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Renegade Democratic donor Norman Hsu was tracked down by the FBI in Colorado last night after skipping town again—he failed to show up in Bay Area court Wednesday for a bail-reduction hearing in connection with his 15-year-old felony theft case. The FBI  charged him with unlawful flight to avoid... More »

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Democrats • FBI • Ed Rendell • fugitive • arrest • Norman Hsu • Colorado • donor

Dem Moneyman May Be on the Lam Again

New warrant issued for Hsu after California court no-show

Sep 5, 07 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A top Democratic fundraiser is in more trouble after failing to appear in a California court today for a bail hearing, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A judge revoked Norman Hsu's $2 million bail and issued a new warrant for his arrest. “It could be a mistake, somehow, on... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • fundraiser • Norman Hsu • bail • donor • passport

Taxpayers Foot Governator's Travel Frills

Donors get breaks,
and maybe access, for funding Arnold's luxury

Jul 5, 07 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger travels on private jets and racks up six-figure trip expenses, thanks to the largesse of a shady nonprofit group whose secret donors get tax breaks, the LA Times reports. Watchdogs claim the 501(c)(3) is an abuse of a system intended to reward donations to needy causes. More »

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travel • California • taxes • Arnold Schwarzenegger • corruption • nonprofit • Gray Davis • donor

Corporate Donors Snub McCain

It's payback time for a career as Senate ethics reformer

Jun 18, 07 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain is lagging far behind his GOP primary rivals in fundraising, in part because he's alienated so many big corporate donors in his Senate career. All that straight talk about minimizing the influence of money on politics has taken its toll, the New York Times notes. One defense industry... More »

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John McCain • campaign finance • contractors • McCain Feingold • Armed Services Committee • Chris Dodd • campaign fundraising • donor • snub

Next World
Bank Prez
Meets World

Zoellick begins circuit to meet and greet bank's poorest clients

Jun 5, 07 11:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former trade rep Robert Zoellick embarked on a world tour yesterday, in advance of his likely ascension to president of the World Bank this month. Zoellick will stop in Africa to visit the bank's largest beneficiaries, and Europe to schmooze with its largest donors. "I want to leave no... More »

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World Bank • Paul Wolfowitz • Robert Zoellick • business • money • bank • crisis • donor

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