After the highly publicized near-closure of the San Diego Opera this spring, the organization has cut its operating budget by about a third—including some staff layoffs—and is preparing to raise the curtain on its 50th anniversary season. A recent decision by San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture underscores both the progress that’s been made and the work that remains to be done.
When did United Way begin funding small businesses? But in this case, it makes some good sense.
An Asheville, N.C reporter reveals a bit of his thinking and it is worth considering: In his opinion, when an organization working with tax dollars refuses to reveal top salaries, they warrant a deeper investigative look.
Memo to Dan Snyder and the people he recruits to blog for his revamped public relations effort to defend his NFL team’s use of a racial slur as its name: Time’s up. Recruiting politically liberal bloggers and coming up with new charitable efforts for Native Americans won’t undo the racism built into the team’s name.
It appears the efforts of Zuckerberg’s FWD.us to appeal to both Democrats and Republicans on the matter of immigration reform have caused the political group to stall out.
Remember the Chinese philanthropist who threw the fancy luncheon for homeless New Yorkers and then left amidst confusion and charges of reneging on commitments to help? It seems that now he feels that he got scammed by a New York-based nonprofit himself.
Massachusetts has realized that one of its hospital systems has gotten so big that it is demonstrably driving healthcare costs up. Now what?
The Manhattan Institute’s Howard Husock and this newswire writer have crossed ideological swords at many times over the years and will likely to do so many times more in the future. But Husock’s column in Forbes criticizing “crony philanthropy” as practiced by corporate foundations resonates with us.
Will Hobby Lobby feel any financial blowback from that portion of their potential customer base that finds the recent SCOTUS decision unpalatable?
A charity dedicated to clearing land mines linked to the British royal family is in a mess concerning a secret deal to supplement the CEO’s salary with money to send his kids to a private boarding school.
This article in Network World suggests the IRS may be averse to approving nonprofit status for nonprofit groups making Open Source software.
Tell the victims of July 4th weekend shootings in Chicago (and Indianapolis, San Francisco, Long Beach, Baltimore, and other places) that they are dead because our nation believes that the Second Amendment is a green light for intramural slaughter. The nonprofit sector had better stand up to the National Rifle Association and feckless politicians and demand gun control now.