The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the stand-your-ground law controversies, which, despite the trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and the upcoming trial of the killer of Florida teen Jordan Davis, seem to have faded as a major political issue. In fact, the number of states with SYG-type statutes has increased to 23 since the Zimmerman trial.
The latest work of transformative art by the notorious street painter will be auctioned off, and the proceeds will go to help homeless NYC residents confronting HIV/AIDS.
Sometimes organizations perpetrate fraud, sometimes they are victims. In the Washington Post’s investigative report on “diversions” of nonprofit assets, the nonprofits involve look more like victims of criminals than criminal victimizers.
If it weren’t already clear from the Obama administration’s reluctant acknowledgement that the NSA program needed review, bipartisan legislation introduced by Senator Pat Leahy and Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner implicitly confirms NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s status as whistleblower, not traitor.
When looked at closely, the super-sized promotion of the charitable efforts of the McDonald’s Corporation conceals giving efforts that pack more publicity than punch.
Stores were awash in pink this October, offering the opportunity not just to purchase more products, but to reflect upon the evolution of and challenges caused by cause marketing.
In tiny Middlebury, Vermont, one official has proposed an alternative to a formal program of PILOTs for nonprofits: a plan to ask nonprofits to take care of public green spaces.
A Republican representative in New Mexico fears that stretching and mat exercises will lead toward inculcating elementary-school students into “Eastern religions.”
Suzanne Somers has written books about staying sexy, fighting aging, losing weight, and dealing with perimenopause, but that doesn’t make her op-ed in a Wall Street Journal blog about the Affordable Care Act factual or coherent.
As the Mountville Area Community Center gradually transforms itself into a museum and historical society, it seems a few important steps have been missed, leading the Pennsylvania town council confused as to who actually owns the materials the organization now holds.
Washington can’t get its act together, but California can. The Fair Political Practices Commission fines two nonprofits linked to the Koch brothers $1 million for campaign finance violations in two ballot initiatives last year—a model for other states and the federal government.
As Pierre Omidyar prepares to launch a news operation with the potential to redefine the field, mainstream publications question him and his partner, journalist Glenn Greenwald, as to their motives and goals.