The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs is making a “Charity Search” app available for free to aid donors in doing their research about nonprofits in which they are interested.
University of Arkansas Adjusts to Transgender Students
A civil rights complaint prompts the University of Arkansas to accommodate transgender students.
Attuned to Radio: Is Your Nonprofit Getting Poor Reception?
Nonprofits can learn a lot from what’s kept radio going—and often growing—for over 100 years, and the steps the medium is taking to be relevant for decades to come.
Is Cardinal Dolan’s Threat to End Catholic Charity to the Poor for Real?
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the top Roman Catholic official in the U.S., has said that if the Church doesn’t get its way on contraception policy, it might cut off charity aid to America’s poor.
U-Iowa Hires President’s Husband as Fundraiser and Storm Ensues
The University of Iowa Foundation is taking some heat over its payment of $72,000 in salary to the university president’s husband for attending university events.
Second Mile Plans to Close and Transfer Funds
The Second Mile Foundation, marred by alleged scandal, intends to disband and transfer approximately $2 million to the Houston, Texas-based Arrow Child and Family Ministries.
Why Hasn’t the Brown-Warren PAC Pact Caught On?
Though several have tried, the deal struck between Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, to shut off the spigots of campaign ads from PACs and 501(c)(4)s hasn’t caught on.
FairShareMusic Looks to Become Philanthropic iTunes
With the tagline, “You download, we donate,” the U.K.-based startup FairShareMusic is attempting to harness music lovers’ desire to download tracks online to fuel philanthropic giving.
Futbol Club Barcelona Pitches Worldreader Campaign in Africa
The international nonprofit Worldreader has launched a campaign to distribute one million digital books to students in sub-Saharan Africa, and Futbol Club Barcelona is leading the charge.
Worst…Charity Gala…Ever? We Doubt It!
To say that a recent charity gala intended to benefit the Clinton Foundation Millennium Network didn’t go quite as planned would be a significant understatement.
Baucus Launches Senate Investigation of Veterans’ Charity
The Senate Finance Committee has launched an investigation of the nonprofit Disabled Veterans National Foundation, which CNN has been investigating for the past two years.
Mirroring Overarching Trend, Teach for America Struggles to Attract Male Teachers
Teach for America is flooded with job applicants from top colleges and universities, but that flood at the high-profile teaching nonprofit includes a disproportionately small number of males.