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Knight Foundation Launches Fund for Nonprofit News Innovation
Add Kellogg Foundation to Detroit’s Bailout
The Kellogg Foundation is putting $40 million into the foundation fund to save the Detroit Institute of Arts from selling part of its collection to help pay for Detroit’s fiscal problems. The deal sets a new precedent for philanthropy—and is not without problems.
Republican Response on Income Inequality & School Choice
As President Obama describes his plans for reducing income inequality, listen for the Republicans’ counter proposal. It looks like they are going to adopt school choice as the GOP strategy for tackling inequality.
Nonprofit Accountability: Up, Down, and Sideways
In this, the fourth in a series of articles from our NPQ newswire writers summarizing the most prominent trends of 2013, we investigate emergent patterns in the ways nonprofits were held accountable this year—to those who regulate them, their boards, their funders, their constituents, and the general public. It’s no longer sufficient to make financial statements available upon request or track outcomes and other measures of success. A nonprofit must prepare for stakeholders to go public and ask tough questions.
Gov. Snyder Wants to Lure 50,000 Technically Skilled Immigrants to Detroit
How might Governor Rick Snyder go about reviving the ravaged economy of Detroit? One of his ideas is to lure 50,000 highly skilled immigrants to the city over the next five years.
Marijuana Sales and Local Community Development in Colorado
Muriel Eason of the Pagosa Springs Community Development Corporation writes about her involvement in developing stakeholder input into the development of regulations on retail sales of marijuana.
Urban Farm Grows Opportunity in Seattle Basement
The Millionair Club has, since 1921, been offering jobs and other support to people who are homeless and unemployed. Part of that support involves providing meals to the hungry, so they’ve invested in an underground hydroponic garden.
A Proposed Conservative Alternative to Disability Compensation for Vets
Thomas Meyer tracks and catalogues foundation-funded programs for veterans. His latest article on this topic suggests that disability compensation payments for disabled veterans sometimes constitute “crippling disincentives” preventing veterans from being motivated to get jobs and education.
Nathan Cummings Foundation’s New Grantmaking Priority Leaves Some in the Lurch
The relatively new president and CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Simon Greer, has announced a change in the foundation’s grantmaking, eliminating its Jewish life grants and refocusing on income inequality and climate change.
National School Choice Week: Know the Players and the Funders
It’s National School Choice Week this week. The players are big, powerful, well funded, and itching to find alternatives to traditional public schools.
Doing Business with the Government: Administrative Challenges Faced by Nonprofits
Nonprofits face many administrative challenges on a day-to-day basis, ranging from managing donations and fundraising relationships to making sure the bills are paid. However, those organizations receiving federal grants face additional administrative burdens, and must establish monitoring and reporting systems that comport with the government’s. In the following article, Eric Sobota of BDO USA outlines some of these specific requirements and best practices for implementing them.
Messages for Nonprofits from State of the State Addresses
State of the State addresses tend to be self-congratulatory campaign promotions, but nonprofits might detect important themes in the governors’ proposals for the coming year—including some topics they included and others notable for their omission.