Take one unused library space. Stock well with healthy ingredients and state-of-the-art kitchen fixtures. Stir in two high-profile chefs. Sprinkle generously with community partnerships. Fold in reading, math, science and problem-solving lessons. Serve seniors and students, low-literacy adults, restaurant workers and library patrons.
A new study by the Colorado Hospital Association entitled “Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Hospital Volumes” has found that states that have participated in Medicaid expansion have seen an average 30 percent drop in the use of hospital charity care dollars, as compared to nonparticipating states, where there has been even a slight increase in the use of charity care.
The Hershey Company has filed a copyright infringement and dilution suit against a Seattle marijuana cooperative for using names like “Reefer’s Peanut Butter Cups.” Is Maureen Dowd working for Hershey’s?
The last of the money collected by the shady Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund has been redistributed. The couple running the operation ordered shut by the state walked away with a slap on the wrist.
Tulsa debt collector Bill Bartmann thinks that debt collection is a business line that nonprofits should pursue, with an upside to their bottom lines. Good idea?
In the midst of debates over Detroit’s future coming out of an unprecedented big city bankruptcy, the fate of cultural institutions rose to the forefront, largely focused on the future of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Would foundations, would the community rally around an equally important Detroit cultural institution, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History? The future for the Wright Museum reminded us that there are numerous African-American museums throughout the nation facing challenges but playing important roles in their communities and for arts and culture nationally. This is the first of a two-part review of the conditions, challenges, and prospects of African-American museums.
Twenty-five years ago, one young men displayed unmatched courage by stopping four tanks rolling toward protesters in Tiananmen Square. Nonprofits should remember and honor the Tiananmen protests and bring that message to the dialogue between U.S. philanthropists and Chinese oligarchs.
NPQ thinks the idea of the Secret Service wanting to contract for software that can detect sarcasm online is just wonderful! And we look forward to the other additional monitoring devices—maybe an electric shock kind of thing for passive-aggressive behavior!
In an event more artificial than impromptu, Donald Sterling showed up at a black church in South Los Angeles to be pronounced “something-other-than-racist” by the pastor. Too bad it came more than a month after Sterling’s original racist rant followed by his equally incendiary mucked-up explanation and apology to CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
In Memphis, the Plough Foundation made a grant of $750,000 toward processing that city’s 30-year, 12,164-rape kit backlog, but it was dependent on assurances that the city would process every rape kit and it is structured to be the last dollar in.
The Skillman Foundation believes that a more stable community and more financially stable retirees have a positive impact on Detroit’s children.
“Open carry rallies” are a bit of Americana that I could do without, and for a moment it looked like the National Rifle Association agreed with me.