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News from elsewhere

Many aid groups in Afghanistan are on standby, wondering whether to leave or stay and see how reformed the current version of the Taliban is. For now, Médecins Sans Frontières plans to continue operating clinics and hospitals in the country. A leader of the organization said he might fare better than other groups because he does not take political sides, although he admitted: “We cannot take anything for granted. A CARE executive said his team in Afghanistan was “cautiously optimistic” about continuing work there and may even escalate, although operations are on hold for now. The work of Sahar Education, a US nonprofit that has built a girls’ boarding school in Afghanistan, is also on hold. “We don’t think the environment is favorable for NGOs,” said the group’s executive director. (NPR)

More: Animal rescue charities are in a race against time to get staff and pets out of Afghanistan (NBC News)

Time’s Up CEO Tina Tchen has resigned amid news she has advised former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration on how to handle sexual harassment charges. Aides to Cuomo consulted with Tchen on a response to the allegations of an early accuser, and Tchen prevented the organization from publicly supporting the accuser. Since learning that she and Roberta Kaplan, who headed Time’s Up’s board before her recent resignation, had notified the governor’s office, reports of demoralized staff and an organization in decline. existential crisis have spread. A key sticking point is how to use the influence of the group’s famous and powerful founders and leaders to effect change at the highest levels while keeping a critical distance from the people and organizations he hopes to influence. (New York Times)

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• Bill to ban the release of information about nonprofit donors to the Governor of North Carolina (Associated Press)
• Mission and money collide in venture capital ambitions of nonprofit hospitals (Salon)
• State recovers $ 5 million from former Florida Domestic Violence Center CEO and insurers (Miami Herald)
• New York Nonprofit Employees at de Blasio: Raise Minimum Wage for City Contract Workers (NYN Media)

Great gifts and donors

• Bard College announces $ 50 million endowment for its center for curatorial studies (Daily Freeman)
• St. Paul, Minn., Public Television creates endowment for STEM programs with bequest of $ 9 million (current)
• UT-Austin works with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Conservative donors to create ‘limited government’ think tank (Texas Tribune)
• John Oliver’s New Satire Program awards $ 10,000 grants to five struggling (hyperallergic) American museums
• What is a major donor? Fundraising expert explains (conversation)

Non-profit innovation

• UK conservation charity says it is giving some staff very long lunch breaks because climate change makes it harder to work in the midday heat (Insider)
• This charity eliminates the middleman – Reduce waste and expense (Christian Science Monitor)
• Boston Maritime Departments Provide Vaccines to Foreign Sailors in Port (Boston Globe)

Heritage

• Obituary: Barbara Kannapell, activist who empowered deaf people (New York Times)