Philanthropy Today

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., has received a blockbuster donation of artworks and money from the foundation of a late software entrepreneur who had served on its board of trustees. The 331 works given by the Aso O. Tavitian Foundation come with more than $45 million to build a new wing to house them and to fund a curator’s position. A foundation executive estimated the value of the art, by European artists from the 15th through the 19th centuries, at several hundred million dollars. (New York Times)

Urged on by fellow billionaires, philanthropist Michael Bloomberg has given a quiet, late donation to a nonprofit supporting Kamala Harris’s bid for the presidency, according to sources of the New York Times. Bloomberg gave about $50 million to Future Forward USA Action, a social-welfare nonprofit affiliated with Harris’s main super-PAC. That is in addition to his $47 million in federally disclosed political contributions so far this cycle, which fretful Democrats noted was less than he gave to campaigns during Trump’s presidency. Among those nudging him to open his checkbook were Bill Gates, investor Ron Conway, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, the Times reports. (New York Times)

Background from the Chronicle: ‘Money Is Power': 44 Ultra-Wealthy Philanthropists Are Top Political Donors This Election Cycle

More on the Election

• Inside the Movement Behind Trump’s Election Lies (New York Times)
• Recruiting Gen Z Voters With ‘Poll Dancers’ and Yung Gravy (New York Times)

More News

• Funding Cuts Devastate S.C. Nonprofits Helping Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims (Greenville News)
• Carbon Emissions of Richest 1% Increase Hunger, Poverty and Deaths, Says Oxfam (Guardian)
• An Unlikely Winner in the Office Real Estate Slump? A Dance Troupe. (New York Times)
• Steve Mariotti, Whose Trauma Led Him to Help Others, Dies at 71 (New York Times)

Arts and Culture

• Why These Seattle Museum Security Guards Voted to Approve a Strike (Seattle Times)
• The Whitney Museum Will Be Free for All Visitors 25 Years Old and Younger (Wall Street Journal— subscription)
• In the Background, but at the Center of Founding MoMA (New York Times)

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In the October 25 edition of Philanthropy Today, an item on a Wall Street Journal story about donor support for election integrity groups incorrectly stated that the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Bradley Impact Fund gave grants to 501(c)(4), or “dark money” organizations. The two organizations have not given to 501(c)(4) groups.