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...publicly disclosed. When asked by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey whether she had committed to continuing to disclose such sponsors in the future, Clinton said, "That's correct." McKenna confirmed the initiative's intention to continue disclosing donors once it spins off the foundation. (See pictures of Bill Clinton campaigning with Hillary...
...Everything went perfectly. Everything, except for one detail: the matter of President Bill Clinton's charitable endeavors, including the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, and the danger that they might taint Hillary Clinton's role as Secretary of State. The foundation, according to its public disclosure documents, aims to promote "the values of fairness and opportunity for all" as well as "health security, economic empowerment, leadership development, citizen service, and racial, ethnic and religious reconciliation." Clinton described her husband's Global Initiative, part of his foundation, as a "pass-through" that funnels money from wealthy donors...
...Clinton answered by citing the lengthy memorandum of understanding negotiated between her staff and Obama's transition team last December as a condition for her being offered the job. That agreement specified that Bill Clinton would disclose all prior donors to the Clinton Foundation, provide an annual list of donors in the future and subject any proposed donations by foreign governments to a State Department ethics review...
...Clinton's approval by the Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday morning is all but guaranteed. But Senator Lugar has laid down a marker over the potential for conflict-of-interest questions surrounding foreign donations to Bill Clinton's charitable endeavors. And if it turns out that Senator Lugar saw trouble before it arrived, it won't have been the first time...
...Although U.S. college enrollment has climbed, college completion rates have not. Only a third of students who enroll in community colleges - which educate nearly half the undergraduates in the U.S. - get a degree within six years. Hence the interest in this study among such philanthropic powerhouses as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which helped fund the MDRC study. (MDRC, by the way, was created in 1974 by the Ford Foundation and a group of federal agencies; originally named the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, it now goes only by the abbreviation...