Philanthropy

During 2021, the Alzheimer’s Association Accounting Industry Leadership Council more than doubled in size from eight members to 18.

For the first time, multiple CPAs under the age of 41 were honored for their contributions to the future of the accounting profession.

Chicago CPA Jeff Badu launches his own nonprofit to serve local youth, and the Indiana Society of CPAs holds its 2021 Spring CPA week.

The state society's annual awards recognize local CPAs and their commitment to service, diversity and innovation.

The society honored professionals across a wide range of categories, including Women to Watch, Lifetime Achievement, Advancing Diversity and more.

Brown Schultz Sheridan & Fritz announces two annual initiatives for minority students; and Test Prep Insight opens its $1,000 student scholarship.

A donor has asked the IRS to open a fraud investigation into a nonprofit that builds schools in Africa, and for Canada’s federal police to seize its records.

A U.S. donor to Canada’s WE Charity said he has asked the Internal Revenue Service to open a fraud investigation into the organization after testifying that it took down a plaque on a Kenya school built to honor his dead son and replaced it with that of another donor.

Holders of donor-advised funds increased their disbursements last year in response to urgent demands for greater charitable contributions to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service agents spent four years piercing the veil of secrecy that billionaire money manager Robert F. Smith wove to hide more than $200 million in income.