It was a little late in getting released, but the FY2015 budget proposal of the Obama administration went live yesterday. If it were to be adopted as-is, it would be of huge interest to nonprofits and foundations, but it may have a political half-life of mere seconds.

A report by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman finds that in 2012, $154 million intended for nonprofits ended up with telemarketers, raising new questions for consumers and nonprofits about how to better monitor this fundraising approach.

According to documents filed in February, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation cancelled its grant to the Akron-based University Park Alliance based on the allegation that the UPA, and executive director Eric Anthony Johnson in particular, engaged in “deception.”

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued a statement saying the recent release of teacher evaluation results in Florida can only cause harm.

President Obama seems to have lost the support of the nation’s largest and most influential Latino advocacy organization, the National Council of La Raza, over the issue of deportations.

Spotify has launched a creative app that encourages online users to support their favorite charities with a new music sharing game.

Coca-Cola’s corporate foundation has distributed grant dollars across the country and beyond. When it comes to corporate social responsibility, that’s the easy stuff, compared to trying to get the on-site details of illegal land grabs by Coca-Cola’s Cambodian sugar plantation suppliers.

While foundations explore the inner recesses of Capitol Hill in Washington, Tim Delaney of the National Council of Nonprofits recommends that they not forget the need to support nonprofit public policy advocacy at the state level. It may be especially important, given how little may occur in Washington due to partisan gridlock as compared with the legislatively active dynamics beyond the D.C. Beltway.

What Arkansans want from philanthropy and Congress may be similar, according to Bill Kopsky of the Arkansas Public Policy Panel, but it all boils down to a call for “true listening” and “true engagement, where the process is as important as the product.”

The Omidyar Network’s philanthropy in support of Glenn Greenwald’s new First Look startup has received relatively positive responses from mainstream and other nonprofit media outlets. Omidyar’s funding of pro-Western groups in the Ukraine is less well known and, to one journalist at Pando Daily, a question mark for the journalism Omidyar funds.

The Ohio Department of Taxation has reversed its position and will support the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s tax exemptions on property it owns in Cleveland and one of its suburbs. This pending case is another example of the ongoing debate between community nonprofits and local government over who should pay taxes and who is exempt.

To “B” or not to “B”—that is the question at stake as a Texas memorial foundation considers legal action against Boston’s World Series winners over a rallying cry that they say infringes upon their trademark.