The head of one of America’s largest and most influential AIDS nonprofits won’t be sending a valentine to one of Los Angeles’ most powerful and respected elected officials anytime soon.
Schwab Charitable, the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, and several others linked to financial services firms have developed a charitable service that has done more than increase the ease of the process of money flowing from donors’ pockets to operating charities. They have also fundamentally changed investors’ mindsets and their conceptual approaches to charitable giving.
A bill in Oregon and another in Wisconsin seek to limit the amount an employee can earn. Is this the start of a trend?
The board of the Women’s Resource Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, closed the program on January 31 after 40 years, but former staff and supporters are now challenging that decision, saying that the bylaws were violated.
A phenomenally good story by Charlotte Observer journalist Ann Doss Helms reveals exactly what happened at the StudentFirst Academy charter school that led to a huge and predictable scandal only four months after the school opened its doors.
It’s a big advocacy victory by nonprofit disability rights groups! President Barack Obama’s executive order on a $10.10 minimum wage for federal contract workers will apply to workers with disabilities, freeing them from the subminimum wage provisions of 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Is this a bona fide attempt to tax unrelated business income, or a favor for private health clubs, whose lobbyist has lined the campaign coffers of many legislators?
As many of you know, NPQ starts its editorial year with a survey of its readers. In this small sampling of responses to date you will get a small window into what is on the minds of nonprofit leaders and maybe some motivation to add your own suggestions.
Infographics are valuable visual tools for consolidating data, but what makes an infographic really stand out?
The nation is going to sorely miss Senator Tom Harkin, who is retiring at the end of his current term. An example of the reason why is his Senate HELP committee report calling for ending the barbaric practices of physical restraint and seclusion used by some schools, administrators, and teachers in dealing with allegedly “disruptive,” and in almost all cases disabled, pupils.
The silver lining to this bizarre story about the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green is that it’s likely to create quite a high profile for the group.
The closing of a city-run clinic in Portland, Maine, that provided healthcare for thousands of homeless people stands as a reminder to guard against overdependence on a single source of funding.