The founder of eBay reveals his plan to invest $250 million in Glenn Greenwald’s startup, which plans on revitalizing journalism through a model that aims to reach the whole spectrum of news consumers with “independent, ferocious, investigative journalism” that “actually creates a check on power.”
Wake-Up Call for Nonprofits: Sequestration Budget Debate Beginning Right Now!
With the Reid-McConnell budget deal or some variant thereof making it through Congress to reopen the government and stave off default, the battleground shifts to the contents of the federal budget—what will we have the government spend federal revenues on. That means the window is open to revise, halt, and potentially even roll back the sequester.
Target Collaborates with Nonprofit to Evaluate Sustainable Goods
Target is teaming with mobile app GoodGuide to include environmental sustainability ratings for their products.
Harvard Receives Ransom Demand for Lost African American Papers
The value of these documents from Harvard’s first black graduate to scholars of the African American experience is beyond measure. The man who found the papers wants a fair price for them, or he’ll destroy them himself.
Not Expanding Medicaid Leaves 5 Million in Health Coverage Gap
The Kaiser Family Foundation’s newest analysis of Affordable Care Act coverage examines the millions of people who will be caught between coverage by Medicaid and purchasing private insurance on the health exchanges. Five million people—20 percent of them in Texas—will be caught in this entirely avoidable, terribly discriminatory coverage gap.
New Business Conditions Require New Networks Like This Theatre Alliance
Theatre groups in central Pennsylvania are facing off against mutual challenges through joining together in an alliance of communication and shared resources.
McCutcheon and the Future of Campaign Finance Reform
If the past few weeks of political chaos in Washington haven’t convinced you, we don’t know what will. The American political system is increasingly broken, with the fractures rooted in the dominance of big money in campaign finance. Now the Supreme Court may make it worse with a decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.
Playing Hide the Sequester in Government Shutdown Negotiations
The sequester, or at least the second year of it, is on the table in Capitol Hill negotiations to break the budget impasse and reopen the federal government. Rather than hitting the snooze button, nonprofits should respond to the budget alarm clock and let the House and the Senate know exactly how damaging the sequester has been.
Another Likely Blow to Nonprofits: DOD Suspends its Participation in the Combined Federal Campaign
Due to the shutdown, the Department of Defense has suspended its domestic participation in the CFC, which may have significant effects on the overall campaign and on the nonprofits it funds.
Fracking Down the House: Heinz Endowment President Resigns
Last summer’s controversies at the Heinz Endowments that led to a top environmental program staffer being forced out have been succeeded by a bigger event—the resignation of the president of the Heinz Endowments, Bobby Vagt.
Some Komen Affiliates Still Struggle with 40% Race Participation Losses
A year and a half after Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s debacle involving the defunding of Planned Parenthood, their signature races are still trying to regain the participant numbers and donor dollars they had at their height.
The Congressional Brain Drain is Starting
It’s hard enough being a congressional staffer. Now, a combination of an Affordable Care Act provision and actions by Republicans in the Senate are threatening their access to high-quality healthcare, which is leading many to seek greener pastures in the private sector.