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Lawmakers Take Swing at $1 Million Grant for Golf Tourney
August 9, 2010; American Chronicle | Cheers, not jeers, are heard for this state-level cut for a nonprofit golf tournament.—Bruce Trachtenberg
Invitation in the mail: Canadian Billionaires are people too!
August 9, 2010; Toronto Sun | The Toronto Sun suggests that Buffet and Gates may need to add Canada’s other 54 billionaires to its “giving pledge” invitation list.—Ruth McCambridge
Innovation: One Child, One e-Book
August 8, 2010; Wall Street Journal | Amazon’s Kindle is on trial in Ghana to see whether kids learn better with digital books, or the good, old-fashioned paper kind.—Aaron Lester
Battle Over Charter School Unionization
August 9, 2010; In These Times | What happens when a charter school run by a nonprofit management company faces a unionization campaign among its teaching staff?—Rick Cohen
Domestic Violence Program Spars with DA Over Funding
August 9, 2010; ChicoER.com | What should happen to the fees paid by abusers -whether it should fund education or councelling – is at the center of this debate in California.—Ruth McCambridge
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Increase in WI Hospital Charity Care Doesn’t Materialize
August 8, 2010; Journal Sentinal | Hospitals offering free care expected unemployment and other economic woes to drive up demand for the programs, but they’re still waiting.—Ruth McCambridge
With Political Connections Alaska Nonprofit Reels in the Dough
August 6, 2010; Alaska Journal of Commerce | Executives of nonprofits serving poor fishing communities in Alaska are raking it in; is it ethical?—Rick Cohen
NY AG Cuomo Widens Health-Care Lending Investigation
August 9, 2010; Fox Business | Some health care clinics are promoting health care credit cards, promting concern over predatory lending.—Rick Cohen
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