Federally funded community health centers are starting for-profit insurance companies to attract Medicaid recipients to managed care, increase net revenue, and adapt to a new healthcare landscape.

It was political theater of the highest order: a nearly two-hour press conference from N.J. Governor Chris Christie taking responsibility for the Bridgegate crisis of a state-generated traffic jam at the George Washington Bridge to allegedly punish the mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey. We see at least six lessons for nonprofits in Christie’s admissions and dodges in Bridgegate.

The ways in which we talk about new nonprofit startups have often assumed that many of the founders are young, but the Kauffman Foundation has released some interesting research about baby boomer entrepreneurial startups, both in the nonprofit as well as the for-profit sectors.

According to an editorial in the Des Moines Register talking about the AmeriCorps VISTA program, “Americans who have dedicated themselves to serving their country in a federal volunteer program should not be caught in the crosshairs of the federal health reform law.”

This is the first of a series of articles summing up nonprofit sector trends that NPQ has been following over the past year or more. Each is written by one of NPQ’s lay journalists, otherwise referred to as our newswire writers. This group of grounded correspondents is core to NPQ‘s collaborative journalism model. This summary is by Eileen Cunniffe, whose day job is as the Director of Business Volunteers for the Arts and Business on Board at the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia.

A poll done by Quinnipiac University shows that most American voters support raising the minimum wage and extending unemployment benefits.

Endowments provide a foundation that can sustain work over time. In the case of these six cancer research centers, a $540 million endowment will help them pursue speculative or risky work unencumbered by profit requirements from “the market” or the restrictions of government funding.

Can buying shoes really help the world? One columnist offers a simple New Year’s resolution: Buy less; donate more dollars.

Mayor Bill Peduto keeps debate over tax-exempt status of Pittsburgh’s nonprofits alive by asking the Governor to keep the city under the auspices of Act 47.

Nonprofit Quarterly has written before that the warehousing of people with mental illness in prisons and jails in lieu of treatment is one of this country’s worst human rights violations. This judge’s ruling from South Carolina reaffirms that.

If you have five minutes this morning, take a moment to watch this striking video from the Human Rights Channel on YouTube.

According to its recently posted audit, Komen continues to lose financially in the wake of the Planned Parenthood fiasco.