Mr. Grant, who has been with the IRS since 2005, oversees the office at the center of the controversy over the agency’s heightened scrutiny of Tea Party and other right-wing organizations applying for 501(c)(4) nonprofit status.

Also on Thursday, President Obama named Daniel I. Werfel, the controller of the Office of Management and Budget, as acting IRS commissioner. He replaces Steven T. Miller, who was fired Wednesday over the tax agency’s extra scrutiny of conservative groups.

The New York Times also reports that the IRS, after approving few applications from conservative groups in 2010 and 2011, granted tax exemptions to dozens in a few months after a Republican congressman prodded the agency on the issue last May. Approval of liberal organizations was relatively steady over the same period.

Social-welfare entities—501(c)(4) groups—are allowed to engage in some political work without revealing their donors and have become increasingly active in campaigns. Political-finance watchdog groups are hoping congressional hearings, set to begin Friday on the IRS scandal, will include discussion of how organizations use charity status to engage in campaigns while shielding contributors, Bloomberg writes.

See more Chronicle of Philanthropy coverage of the scandal.

The potential involvement of the Washington, D.C.-based National Center for Victims of Crime could advance plans publicized in March by an ad hoc group representing victims of the Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Aurora, Colo., massacres. Families in Aurora and in Newtown, Conn., have raised questions about community groups’ handling of funds for victims.

Jeff Dion, deputy executive director of the center, said it would lead national donation drives following attacks with mass casualties and ensure that victims and their families receive all the money raised, following the model of the One Boston Fund set up a day after the Boston Marathon bombings.

Federal prosecutors said the 67-year-old Atlanta Democrat solicited donations from corporations, unions, and individuals to Universal Humanities, a literacy charity he founded in the 1990s, and to the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials and put the money into home repairs, life insurance, entertainment, and other personal uses.

A federal grand jury has been investigating the elected officials group. Mr. Brooks, who denied any wrongdoing, has attributed the inquiry to anger over efforts by the association to bring attention to the unsolved murder of two black couples in Monroe, Ga., in 1946.

Since her husband’s death two years ago Laurene Powell Jobs has promoted a social agenda that includes expanded access to higher education, environmental issues, and, particularly, immigration reform, which she discussed recently in rare interviews on television and with the Journal. Like Mr. Jobs, she has made no major public donations and declined to sign the Giving Pledge.

“Her profile is rising only of necessity and passion to change the system,” said Ron Conway, a startup investor and friend of Ms. Powell Jobs, of her campaigning on immigration. “I don’t think she necessarily wants to be in Washington all the time. I think it is based on the necessity of the issue.”

Officials at the Houston university said the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance will conduct research and outreach efforts and develop new courses aimed at analyzing the sources of religious hatred and promoting coexistence.

Mr. Nelsons, 34, currently serves music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England and lives in Riga, the capital of Latvia. He signed a five-year deal with the Boston symphony that will begin next year. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Mr. Levine resigned in March 2011, citing the chronic health problems that plagued his seven-year tenure in Boston, forcing him to conduct from a chair and often cancel concerts.

In a brief White House statement, the president termed the treatment of Tea Party and other right-wing groups “inexcusable,” said the administration would cooperate with congressional inquiries into the IRS and called for a revamp of regulations for political advocacy groups so “we can have confidence they are applied in a fair and impartial way.”

Lawmakers have criticized Mr. Miller for failing to notify Congress after he learned of the problem last year, despite inquiries by Republican legislators. In an internal message Wednesday, he told IRS staffers “there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation’s tax agency.”

See more Chronicle of Philanthropy coverage of the IRS scandal.

The highest-paid Harvard Management Company staffer was Andrew Wiltshire, who oversees hedge funds and other alternative assets and received $6.6-million, up 20 percent from 2010, according to compensation disclosures coinciding with Harvard’s tax filing Wednesday.

The calendar-year wage figures are difficult to match against investment performance, which is calculated over Harvard’s July 1-June 30 fiscal year, the Globe writes. The endowment gained 21.4 percent in the year ending June 30, 2011, and was flat in the following 12 months.

James Rothenberg, Harvard’s treasurer and the chairman of its investment group, said the fund’s “market-beating performance” helps the university pay for teaching and research and that using internal managers has saved the university more than $1 billion in fees over the past 10 years.

An executive order signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year and set to take effect in July sets a $199,000 cap on top pay for workers at organizations that receive 30 percent or more of their revenue from state agencies, unless the nonprofit group obtains a state waiver.

Internal Revenue Service records show only eight of New York City’s 31 nonprofit hospitals are at least 30 percent supported by Medicaid, meaning most will not be covered by the cap, among them institutions that pay salaries and benefits of $3-million to $5-million to top administrators and clinical staff.

Read a Chronicle of Philanthropy article on proposed new governance regulations for New York State charities.

Along with producing recent revivals of Hair, Driving Miss Daisy, and Equus, Mr. Bernstein has headed national trade group the Broadway League for more than a decade. He will take office at Lincoln Center in January, when outgoing President Reynold Levy steps down.

The job will be Mr. Bernstein’s first for a nonprofit organization. A veteran of courting investors for commercial productions, he said he was undaunted by the fundraising demands of leading Lincoln Center, which relies on donors for nearly half of its annual $118-million budget, noting, “I’ve been asking for money for a long time.”