How much would you give for a portrait of your favorite Pokémon?
Public Television Tracks “Sequestration Across the Nation”
PBS is making the sequester more accessible through its regular coverage. Nonprofit Quarterly supplements their efforts with other sources beginning to report on sequestration’s real-life, human impact.
Moscow and NYC Duke It Out for Most Billionaires
Billionaire philanthropy is all the rage but where might we look for this exotic but elusive breed of super-rich folk? NYC is still the most favored habitat but Moscow is close behind.
Troubled NJ Charter School Attracts Press Scrutiny
Our fingers were singed from this remarkable piece of investigative reporting about the Adelaide L. Sanford Charter School in Newark, New Jersey, and its founder, Fredrica Bey.
One Foundation Ad, Two Messages for Child Abuse
A clever advertisement sends two different messages to the viewer based on their height, aiming to reach youth impacted by child abuse.
Big Pharma CEOs Took Salaries of $1.57B During Last 10 Years
Health Care for America Now takes drug firms and the U.S. government to task for failing to rein in costs while their executives took home salaries comparable in size to whole nonprofits.
A 64% Raise for Komen Founder and – Wait! Is She Still the CEO?
Did Nancy Brinker’s leadership performance merit increased income? And what’s her role in Susan G. Komen for the Cure, anyway? Wasn’t she supposed to be stepping down?
Conservative Thinkers Slam Heritage Immigration Reform Report
Under the leadership of its new CEO, the Heritage Foundation issued a hardline report against immigration reform. Heritage’s allies on the right think the report stinks.
Mid-Tennessee Boy Scouts Say “No” to Gay Youth
One BSA-chartered group does not accept the compromise position proposed to allow gay young people to remain involved in scouting.
Responding to the Bangladeshi Factory Collapse: Fix Government or Fix Corporations?
Howard Husock says that preventing future calamities like the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh should be addressed by improving government, rather than corporate manufacturers. We say he’s half-right.
A Creature of Its Environment: View from a Community Foundation
All politics is local, some famous politician once said, and a lot of philanthropy would be well served by understanding the importance of understanding and connecting to the culture and dynamics of the communities foundations serve. That is one of the messages of Alicia Philipp, the longtime president of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, reminding national foundations—and all of us—“community foundations are as different as the local communities” they serve.
The Turnaround (And Around) of the Howard Brown Health Center
Although they showed a surplus last year and their revenue has increased quite significantly, leadership instability, continued demerits from audits and problems in meeting publicized goals have added to the troubles of this controversial organization.