November 4, 2009 — To boost its philanthropic business, Bank of America Corp. will begin letting customers open donor- advised funds online with as little as $5,000, the company announced this morning.
Patrick Cole
July 9, 2009, Bloomberg — Brian Mullaney figured that tapping one of the best smiles in Hollywood -- say, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman or Julia Roberts -- would surely boost publicity and donations for his organization that fixes the misshapen mouths of poor children.
June 26, 2009, Bloomberg — The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles said today that it raised about $57 million in the first half of 2009. The museum said it has reversed a decade of declining contributions to its endowment fund.
June 23, 2009, Bloomberg — When young Yale graduates need to hit up other alumni for charity, they tap the Old Boy and Girl Internetwork.
May 26, Bloomberg — At last year’s Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference, Greenlight Capital Inc.’s David Einhorn told an audience of hedge-fund managers that Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. wasn’t disclosing the whole truth about its finances.
