The Washington Post’s investigative report on nonprofits citing diversions of assets has deservedly received much attention. The challenge is to understand what the Post’s database on nonprofit diversions actually reveals. We think there’s a scandal lurking here—about the regulation, oversight, and control of investment banks and advisors.
A blogger for the Associated Baptist Press offers lessons on the dangers of trying to keep serious problems as a secret held close by the group.
There are many more people with chronic mental illness in this nation’s prisons and jails than in hospitals. Once they get there, if we are to judge from this study of Rikers Island, the treatment of them is nothing short of human rights abuse.
Can televised programming make signing up for healthcare seem appealing? An 18-month grant from the California Endowment aims to find out.
The Atlantic’s Garance Franke-Ruta provides an illuminating, though disappointing, tour of the websites available for calculating one’s qualifications for federal subsidies on state and federal health insurance exchanges.
Despite the fact that nonprofit organizations established as public-private partnerships have had significant problems, the governor of North Carolina is pushing to create one in his state.
Last night, many cities around the country elected new mayors.
Even though he won in a landslide, mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has some skeptics in New York City’s large and robust non-profit sector, based on some things he said during his campaign.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) challenges a “chamber of commerce” associated with the Koch brothers on the basis that it isn’t much of a chamber at all. But CREW also asks the IRS to clarify what it means by 501(c)(6)s in order to ward off abuses heading into the 2014 electoral cycle.
There have long been concerns expressed about cy pres awards, where a charitable body receives money as the result of a class action finding. Now Justice Roberts has declared that the court would not mind a strong case that would press the issue.
Anonymous made November 5th—Guy Fawkes Day—a global day of protest. But what were the marchers protesting, and what did they accomplish?
An affair with a subordinate that end in a suicide, a very public suit that claims retaliation against staff for reporting sexual harassment: these are situations that we would not long for but when they occur, what is the proper reaction?