Nonprofit Newswire | October 13, 2010

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Pot Funds Art

October 12, 2010; New York Times | The Girl Scouts have their cookies, the Life is Art foundation, located in the hills north of San Francisco, has pot plants instead.—Aaron Lester

Poor Economy Diminishes Hospitals’ Hopes That Giving Will Rebound Soon

October 11, 2010; MordernHealthcare.com | Hospitals seem sure of two things as they look to the future: revenues are likely to be squeezed once the new health care legislation fully kicks in and slows increases in Medicare payments.—Bruce Trachtenberg

Officials Reconsider Fees on Athletic Fields in Fla.

October 13, 2010; St. Petersburg Times | What does it take to make public officials realize that their efforts to eke every last nickel and dime out of nonprofits in the form of increased fees is counterproductive and wrong?—Rick Cohen

Will Mobile Giving Transform Global Philanthropy?

October 10, 2010; Newsweek | Both proponents and providers of mobile giving services say it’s all about the ease of use and ability to donate on the fly that makes text-giving so popular and why they expect it to grow even more.—Bruce Trachtenberg

Thomas and the Tea Party: Donor Disclosure Advised?

October 12, 2010; New York Times | Two large anonymous donations brings up the issue of potential conflict of interest for a supreme court justice who has a relationship to a nonprofit.—Ruth McCambridge

Nonprofits Aren’t Political . . . But

October 12, 2010; Los Angeles Times | A nonprofit coalition is scouring the California gubernatorial candidates’ proposals that relate to the arts and laying out what the arts do for the state’s economy.—Rick Cohen

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