Ivanka Trump Sets Up Fund For Book Earnings To Comply With Ethics Rules

First daughter and trusted adviser to the President, Ivanka Trump announced Thursday that she is publishing a book about women in the workplace and will set up a charitable fund with part of her advance and book earnings. She said the unpaid part of her advance would be given to charity.

Trump made her announcement of the book, called “Women Who Work,” in a post on her Facebook page. Trump said the book will focus on empowering women in the workplace, though she said she recognized she her experience is not exactly ordinary.

“Like many other professional women, I have juggled the demands that come with growing my family and building my businesses, and I realize that I am more fortunate than most,” she wrote.

Trump said the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund will make donations to The National Urban League and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, non-profits she calls “forward-thinking and innovative.”

Trump said to comply with ethics rules she will not promote her book and said that she wrote it before her father was elected.

“In light of government ethics rules, I want to be clear that this book is a personal project,” she wrote. “I wrote it at a different time in my life, from the perspective of an executive and an entrepreneur, and the manuscript was completed before the election last November. Out of an abundance of caution and to avoid the appearance of using my official role to promote the book, I will not publicize the book through a promotional tour or media appearances.”