The debt-ridden state is behind on its payments, and that means that nonprofits like Stepping Stones lack needed resources to keep both workers paid and the lights turned on.
How Illinois is Crippling Human Service Nonprofits
Mayo Clinic’s Prognosis: City Must Double in Size—And Pay for It
State and local governments in Minnesota, fearful that the Mayo Clinic would abandon Minnesota, are hit with a $585 million tab to “help” Mayo achieve its $5.6 billion, 20-year vision.
A Local Business Pays It Forward from the Heart
An ice cream shop has teamed up with an area councilwoman to subsidize free swimming for kids under 18 at a local municipal pool. It’s a kind act that will pay off not just in customer loyalty, but in community goodwill.
Safeguarding Volunteers With Effective Risk Management
The growth of the pool of potential and prospective volunteers brings with it the need to take precautions to keep them safer and better informed. Not meeting this challenge can leave an organization exposed.
“In Perpetuity”—Use or Misuse of an Endowment in the Face of Institutional Failure
How secure is a donor’s endowment gift, really? A nonprofit Brooklyn hospital found a legal way to spend away a “for good, forever” endowment in 20 years. Is a donor’s desire presumed to see a nonprofit continue in operation sufficient reason for a court to O.K. a charity to raid the endowment?
Obama Finally Begins to Discuss Poverty; How Should Nonprofits Respond?
Is a new day dawning in this country’s willingness to take on problems of poverty, or are we still stuck on the poll-tested meme of protecting the middle class? An AP report on growing poverty in the U.S. and President Obama’s new program on economic development suggest the need to do something more than stand pat.
Sector Jumping: GED Restructures to Go from Nonprofit to For-Profit
With slight declines in registration numbers over the past few years and new sources of competition emerging in the area of high school equivalency testing, the nonprofit American Council on Education has partnered with for-profit Pearson to manage the GED in the hope of boosting its 70-year old brand and the relevance of the test for the future.
Terminal Diagnosis Doesn’t Slow Giving of “Simpsons” Co-Creator
Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons, in the face of a diagnosis of terminal colorectal cancer, has redoubled his already sizeable charitable giving in the areas of battling hunger and rescuing animals, while continuing to work in the entertainment industry.
Pope Breaks Silence on Issues of Sexuality: We’re “All Good”…but Not Good Enough
The popular and populist Pope Francis says that being gay (and male and celibate) is okay by him.
Graham, Cornyn, Lew to Detroit: A “Drop Dead” Variant
Key Congressional Republicans, led by South Carolina’s senior senator, Lindsey Graham, have responded to Detroit’s bankruptcy with a “drop dead” message, even though Detroit hasn’t asked for a bailout. The message from Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is a kinder, gentler variant on the same theme. When nonprofits get to the table to negotiate their stake in a post-bankruptcy Detroit, what will be their message to the other sectors at the table and to the federal government?
Economic Development Groups Cut by North Carolina Will Reorganize or Close
The N.C. Institute of Minority Economic Development and the Biofuels Center of North Carolina have seen their funding severely cut in the latest budget to come out of the legislature last week.
Meaningful Ways of Honoring the Veterans of the Korean War
On the 60th anniversary of the de facto end of the Korean War, we wonder how to best honor the nearly 2 million Americans who fought and the 37,000 military men and women who died in the conflict.