A distasteful quote from CEO Mike Jeffries began making the rounds on the Internet, which stirred up a hornet’s nest of online activism and local protests. Some vented their anger on websites, but DoSomething.org took their ire to the flagship Abercrombie store in New York.
Nonprofits and Online Activism Target Abercrombie and Fitch
In the wake of the recent BSA vote, religiously affiliated groups continue to take sides as to whether to support the Boy Scouts as they open their membership to gay youth.
Mark Jurkowitz is the co-author of Nonprofit Journalism: A Growing but Fragile Part of the U.S. News System, a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and a long time critical voice on journalism. Here NPQ interviews Jurkowitz on the new swath of journalism sites in the nonprofit sector and we found him excited about the prospects.
A 2% cut in Medicare reimbursements for chemotherapy drugs means treating Medicare patients differently from non-Medicare patients.
Three of New York City’s housing agencies must deal with the loss of as many as rental housing 6,000 vouchers this year.
Sixteen Americans were among the 43 NGO employees found guilty of violating Egyptian law. All of the Americans had left the country prior to the verdicts…except for one.
The Armed Citizen Project plan for reducing crime involves free firearms training and handing out shotguns to single women.
Some nonprofits are less than sanguine about Congress’s insouciance regarding the evidence of a ubiquitous national security state.
The conviction and sentencing of 43 NGO workers, many in absentia, of violating a draft law on association has many in the United Nations troubled about the “increasingly restrictive environment” in Egypt.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg continues his involvement in New Jersey politics, as he supports candidates, like Cory Booker and Gov. Chris Christie, who back “free-market” approaches to education reform.