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• Date: 01 July 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30340
• Published date: 01 July 2017

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The judge decided there were no shifting

explanations.

McNeal also argued that racism was rampant at

UMP, citing a handful of matters that purportedly

buttressed that assertion.

But Judge Kyle said McNeal had not explained

why an entity purportedly bent upon racial discrimi-

nation would hire him as its manager of diversity

and recruitment, task him with enforcing protocols

to eliminate bias and then re him due to his race.

Judge Kyle assumed for the purpose of argument

that McNeal was correct about rampant racism, but

noted that the lone person who made the decision

to terminate him was the very person who recruited

McNeal to UMP. The judge explained it was highly

unlikely that a supervisor would hire an employee

and then discriminate against him.

Judge Kyle granted summary judgment in favor

of UMP.

[McNeal v. University of Minnesota Physicians,

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota,

No. 15-3442, 01/23/2017]. ■

Millennial women, boomers

differ in approach to charity

Millennial women are listening to their hearts and

their social networks as they embrace new ways of

giving, but baby boomer women are more strategic

and satised, according to a new study by Fidelity

Charitable.

According to the company, the Women and Giv-

ing study examines attitudes, strategies and priorities

around giving across generations and gender. And the

data show that different generations of women give in

different ways:

• Millennial women are modernizing giving, updat-

ing the approach of their baby boomer predecessors,

the study found. This generation is more likely to talk

about their giving and encourage others to support the

causes they care about. Millennial women also support

a wider range of causes than baby boomers and are

more likely than boomers to use new forms of giving,

such as crowdfunding and giving circles.

• Baby boomer women, in contrast, are more

strategic in their philanthropy, give to fewer causes

and report higher satisfaction with their giving than

millennials, with some 55 percent of millennial women

saying they are satised and happy with their giving,

compared to 72 percent of baby boomer women.

These differences suggest that a more focused ap-

proach to philanthropy could lead to a higher level

of satisfaction among women donors over time, the

study said.

To read the study in full, visit http://bit.ly/2qpWFAt.

Trump tax proposal mixed bag

for charitable giving

The current tax reform proposals by Republican

lawmakers and the Trump administration would

decrease charitable giving by an estimated $13.1

billion, according to new research commissioned by

Independent Sector and conducted by the Indiana

University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

The new tax study used the 2014 Tax Reform

Act introduced by then House Ways and Means

Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) to

estimate the potential effects of tax policies on

charitable giving. The tax proposal released by the

Trump administration in April and the Republican

proposal both closely mirror the Camp proposal

with respect to reducing the top marginal tax rate

and increasing the standard deduction, IS said.

However, the study also found that when those

proposals incorporated an expanded charitable

deduction for all taxpayers, including people who

do not currently itemize on their taxes, charitable

giving would actually increase by an estimated

$4.8 billion.

In addition to looking at overall giving, the study

looked at how changes to tax policy affect giving

to religious institutions and found proposed tax

reform plans would reduce charitable giving to

religious organizations by 4.7 percent, compared

to 4.4 percent to other types of charities, IS said.

To read the research in full, visit http://bit

.ly/2r2w2jC. ■