The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has announced it will sponsor the for-profit media group, Silicon Prairie News, a digital media company that promotes an “emerging model for grassroots entrepreneurial ecosystem development.”
Board members in California, and Executives in Hawaii and Massachusetts have all been investigated for violating conflict of interest policies in recent weeks, but these conflicts are nothing new.
Despite the fact that Utah has the highest state per capita giving average with 10.6 percent of their discretionary income going to charity, a study says that the state has lost 38 percent of its nonprofits since 2009 and that many of these were rural.
A new book by a longtime New Orleans labor and community activist tells of complicity, if not conspiracy, in the activities of nonprofits and foundations – pre-Katrina – in displacing black households from public housing.
Conflicts of interest can take many different forms and the charges being leveled against the core of those running Wikipedia UK is a good example. The organization only won its tax-exempt status in 2011, but since then it has been beset by scandal.
You almost never hear about the work of nonprofits on the front lines of this nation’s most troubled cities. It’s not sexy, it’s not high profile or highly paid, but it is at the heart of what makes the nonprofit sector truly great.
Francis Piven contends that “like earlier great movements that changed the course of American history, Occupy is fueled by deep institutional lacunae and inconsistencies” and will not subside quickly.
As an alternative to the fundraising and branding free-for-all that envelops emergency assistance organizations, a group of British NGOs has proposed the creation of an emergency response fund.
A new study says that people generally behave more selflessly if they make decisions quickly and intuitively. If decisions are weighed to greatly, selfishness takes over.
Most of our readers know that Mother Jones broke the story about Mitt Romney’s writing off of the 47 percent of America that, in his opinion, are tax deadbeats. But do they know Mother Jones is also a nonprofit?
The supposed 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay taxes do so not because they’re avoiding taxes, but because they are aided by specific policies that, once upon a time, were bipartisan ideas.
After a boycott and numerous demonstrations across the country, Chick-fil-A has agreed to cease its funding of groups opposing gay marriage.