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AG Holder Calls Boy Scout Policy “Relic of an Age of Prejudice”
Calling it a “relic of an age of prejudice,” Attorney General Eric Holder has come out against the Boy Scouts’ policy disallowing gays and lesbians from serving as Scout Leaders.
Cantor’s Defeat and the Implications for Charter Schools
Pundits described the surprise loss of Eric Cantor to his relatively unknown and hugely underfunded primary election opponent, Dave Brat, as a political earthquake, and predicted dire seismic consequences for prospects of immigration reform legislation anytime soon. But Cantor’s big personal belief about nonprofits was support for charter schools. Will Brat follow Cantor on that cardinal plank in the education reform agenda?
San Jose Rep Theater Goes Under; Latest Down in Recent Arts Upheavals
As onlookers, it appears to us to be a very dangerous time for performing arts organizations, and this week the San Jose Repertory Theatre declared itself out of business. Reportedly, the move will immediately precede a bankruptcy filing.
Homeless Social Enterprise in Brooklyn May Need New Location
Sure We Can appears to be an admirable organization, operating New York City’s only nonprofit redemption center to which homeless persons can bring empty cans and bottles. Given the expensive Brooklyn real estate market, Sure We Can might need to find a new redemption center location, and that is going to be difficult for a small, not highly capitalized nonprofit.
Eight Sobering Thoughts for Social Impact Bond Supporters
Among some promoters of social impact bonds, one might find a tendency toward irrational exuberance. They’ll slip into language that suggests the market discipline purportedly inserted into social programming by private capital is much more broadly applicable to a range of social problems than experience so far bears out. We have some enthusiasm-tempering considerations that SIB advocates and critics might reflect upon.
Palestinian-American Activist Faces Deportation
Rasmea Odeh has been a respected, award-winning Arab-American nonprofit advocate in Chicago for many years, but because of her failure to mention in her naturalization papers that she had served time in an Israeli prison, the Department of Homeland Security had her arrested and wants her deported.
Occupy Protestors Win Biggest Suit Yet against NYC
A settlement of nearly $600,000 has been made by the City of New York to resolve a lawsuit filed by Occupy Wall Street protestors arrested as they walked on a sidewalk in the East Village on New Year’s Day 2012. The suit claimed that police had acted unreasonably by arresting the protestors after asking them to disperse even while they did not allow them to do so.
Why Was Simon Greer Fired from Nathan Cummings Foundation?
After announcing a major shift in its grantmaking from Jewish causes to income inequality and climate change, the Nathan Cummings Foundation is making another major shift: getting rid of the president and CEO it had hired to lead its new strategy.
P-Funk Mothership Reassembled at Smithsonian (Video)
Interactive museum exhibits are all the new rage, and this is one we love. A video allows fans to see P-Funk’s iconic Mothership being reassembled at the Smithsonian.
Keep a Wary Eye on Sallie Mae
If you have a federally issued student loan, you probably deal with Sallie Mae (or a Sallie Mae spinoff called Navient) for your payments and servicing. Young professionals in the nonprofit field probably know Sallie for a number of dubious practices, and the Justice Department knows it for its recent violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, but that isn’t stopping Arne Duncan’s Education Department from placing Navient on a shortlist for a new potentially massive loan-servicing contract.
Maine’s Low-Interest Bond Program for State’s Nonprofits Still Suspended and at Great Cost
The 25-year old program has saved charities millions, but that did not convince the governor to continue the public-private partnership.