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Foundations Chip in to Get Detroit Moving Again
March 17, 2010; Time Magazine | According to Time magazine, the Kresge and Skillman Foundations, both based in Detroit, as well as the Eli Broad Foundation in Los Angeles, are “seeding the reinvention of Detroit.”—Bruce Trachtenberg
Nonprofits Aid Ripped-Off Laborers
March 17, 2010; Washington Post | | A Washington, D.C. nonprofit is sounding the alarm about a growing trend among employers to commit wage theft—either skipping or scrimping on wages.—Bruce Trachtenberg
Federal Agency Investigates WorkNet Pinellas
March 17, 2010; St. Petersburg Times | A Clearwater, Florida nonprofit has fired its YouthBuild program director for training and employing young people to collect petitions to get a candidate for the County Commission onto the ballot.—Rick Cohen
Tax Pits Nonprofits Against Seniors
March 17. 2010; Times Union | New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada is reportedly researching a proposal that would use new revenue from nonprofits to fund tax relief for others.—Bruce Trachtenberg
FBI Probes Iowa Association, Pols Pile On
March 16, 2010; Des Moines Register | How odd that in the state whose senator, Republican Charles Grassley, is one of the nation’s foremost political advocates of nonprofit accountability, that yet another high profile nonprofit is banner headline news—for a shortfall in accountability.—Rick Cohen
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Flap Continues on Boys and Girls Club
March 17, 2010; Austin American-Statesman | The investigation of the Boys and Girls Clubs’ compensation of its CEO has again surfaced a longstanding disagreement about the basis on which nonprofit CEO salaries are figured and justified.—Ruth McCambridge
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