Charity (practice)

• Digital OOH (DOOH) represented 33% of total OOH spend and grew almost 10% in 2023.
• In 2023, three of the top ten product industries that grew by double digits included, in order of percentage growth: Public Transportation Hotels & Resorts, Local Services & Amusements, and Schools Camps & Seminars.
• "There is no doubt the OOH space is seeing collective growth and progress," said Anna Bager, President and CEO, OAAA.
• "Increased focus on innovation and unbridled creativity continues to drive impressive growth across our industry and we don't see that slowing in 2024 and beyond.

• These new leaders will help MADD fight the surge in drunk driving deaths and injuries.
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) is honored to welcome Jennifer Mitchell as the Chair of the National Board of Directors for 2024, along with new directors Carly Doshi, David Esmie, and Natalie Furniss.
• "Our board plays a leading role in helping MADD fight the growing public health crisis on our roads," said MADD CEO Stacey D. Stewart.
• She worked directly with MADD's CEO and executive leadership in crafting a five-year strategic plan to eliminate impaired driving.

• Three men have filed a lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – also known as the LDS or Mormon church – and its investment arm, Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc.
• LDS church doctrine requires its members to tithe – that is, give 10% of their income to the church.

3 kinds of relief

• The men are seeking three forms of relief.
• They’re also requesting other monetary relief, including that the LDS church pay their legal fees.
• In February 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission found that Ensign Peak, the church’s investment arm, had failed to make required disclosures of its securities portfolio.
• By a whistleblower’s estimate, it may be as high as $100 billion.

Donors generally have no say

• Charitable donations, generally of money or property, are often deductible for tax purposes because churches qualify as exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
• While donors cannot get their money back when they are disappointed by a charity, they will probably stop making donations.

Fiduciary duty – for the institution

• They argue that the church breached its fiduciary duties to its members – all of whom are also its donors.
• Fiduciary duties encompass a special duty to act in the best interests of someone or something, based on certain legal relationships.

Allegations of fraud

• In Utah, plaintiffs must file fraud suits within three years of when they discover or should have discovered fraudulent behavior.
• And the Ensign Peak allegations first surfaced in 2019 – four years before the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit.
• Their lawyers argue that the statute of limitations does not bar the case, because the LDS church hid how it used the money and plaintiffs could not have discovered the alleged fraud until recently.

Seeking relief

• But they are also asking for the court to order the LDS church to make periodic financial disclosures and to appoint an independent authority outside the church to oversee the church’s finances.
• Appointing somebody to oversee how the LDS church raises and spends its money would violate this doctrine.

Samuel Brunson is practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

• Alexandria, VA, Oct. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC) announces the acquisition of the Charitable Pharmacies of America.
• The Charitable Pharmacies of America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association of charitable pharmacies, pharmaceutical distributors, pharmacists, and community advocates working to extend access and elevate the standards for more accessible, equitable, and comprehensive prescription services.
• The National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC) was founded in 2001 as the only nonprofit 501c (3) organization whose mission is solely focused on the issues and needs of the medically underserved throughout the nation and the more than 1,400 Free and Charitable Clinics and Charitable Pharmacies that serve them.
• “The NAFC is honored to welcome the Charitable Pharmacies of America,” shared Nicole Lamoureux, President & CEO at NAFC.