A slew of celebrities, including Edward Norton, Eva Longoria, and Snoop Dogg, are showing off their wordplay skills in a charity tournament of “Words With Friends.”
Ed Norton Has “Words” for Celebs in Charity Contest
Closed White House Innovation Conference Signals Attack on Transparency
There was no reason for last week’s White House conference on innovation to be closed to the press, and there’s no reason for philanthropy to be complicit in diminishing transparency.
Strange Fundraising for Strange Times—What’s your story?
Fundraising for local projects is definitely one of those things that reflects the sensibility of the culture from which it emerges. So it is, I believe, with this nugget, which was in the newswires this morning: Local sheriff signs up to be tased in return for cash.
Some Exec Salaries Drop as Recession Drags On—Yours?
We are all used to news reports of nonprofit executive salaries that are very high (and sometimes way out of proportion), but let’s note that some execs are taking cuts as well.
Survey Shows Preferred U.S. Healthcare Plans Are Nonprofits
A new Consumer Reports survey finds that the top private health care plans in the U.S. are run by nonprofit organizations.
Whoops! Watchdog Charity Intelligence Loses Charitable Status
Charity Intelligence, a watchdog that rates charities in Canada, says “a series of unfortunate events” triggered an admin mishap that caused it to lose its charitable status.
Everybody Must Get Stoned? Pot Legalization and Ideology
What is interesting about the marijuana legalization issue is that it doesn’t break cleanly left or right, but we don’t hear a full-throated nonprofit sector debate on the legalization question.
PILOTs, Xenophobia and Keeping One’s Eye on the Economic Ball
Hazleton, Pa., which gained a reputation for hostility to immigrants, is asking nonprofits for payments in lieu of taxes. The response from local nonprofits should look more closely at the endgame: prosperity.
Romney Calls for (Already-Existing) Foreign Aid-Enterprise Link
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wants to connect foreign aid to support for private markets—an easy campaign promise to deliver on, seeing as that’s already the case.
Disturbing Fundraising: Sheriff Agrees to Be Tased for Charity
Sheriff Leon Lott of Richland County, S.C. volunteered to be tased at the rate of one second for each contribution of $1,000 to the Richland County Sherriff’s Foundation.
The Importance of Linking Leadership Succession, Strategy, and Governance
AN NPQ CLASSIC:
Whether one’s starting point is a leadership transition, board development or strategy, case studies teach us to recognize and embrace the interrelated nature of these processes.
Volunteer Innovates in the Delivery of the Right Free Eyeglasses
The nonprofit ReSpectacle didn’t invent the idea of donating used eyeglasses to those who need them, but it did come up with a way to get the right prescriptions to the right people.