As regards class, the rose-colored glasses appear to have come off, with a precipitous rise in people’s sense that there are tensions between the rich and the poor—and that is likely to show up in a major way in political discourse in the near future. Thank you, OWS.
The 2012 federal budget cuts funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) by 3 percent, but it cuts funding for the CNCS inspector general (IG) by 48 percent. As a result, the IG’s staffing will be cut by more than 75 percent. This will hurt nonprofit and government accountability significantly.
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the logistics of event planning, but development professionals mustn’t forget to tend to the basics. While effective schmoozing doesn’t come naturally to all, a few energized staff members following best practices can yield successful donor events.
Haiti was expecting $4.6 billion in donor pledges to rebuild, but—still very much in need—the country has only seen a little more than half of that.
One of the winners of the 2011 College Social Innovator Contest proposes creating a new organization serving transient, homeless populations by giving the homeless “voice” and “tangible resources to overcome homelessness,” suggesting that existing organizations aren’t doing that. Will the winner’s “Beyond the Cardboard” enterprise fill holes in the array of homeless service and advocacy organizations, or should the contest sponsors support her commitment by guiding her to devote her energies to where there are real gaps?
Fast Company asks, have the “pity based” campaigns of international humanitarian organizations run their course? And what do you think of what they suggest will replace them?
North Carolina may become the first state in the nation to begin compensating victims of eugenics, that is, forced sterilization, practiced on some 7,600 people in that state— though as many as 60,000 people across the United States may have been victims of official eugenics programs approved in more than half of the states since the first eugenics program, in Indiana, in 1907. Will one large foundation join North Carolina in owning up to its responsibility to the 1,500 to 2,000 surviving eugenics victims there?
It appears that environmental groups in Canada may be targeted for a possible withdrawal of their tax-exempt status on the basis that they are too political and are functioning in part on foreign funds.
Republicans think that rich people like Warren Buffett, who believe in higher taxes for the super wealthy, should donate money to the government voluntarily if they feel like it. Major philanthropist and one of the wealthiest human beings on earth, Buffett has a proposal to force Republican senators to put their money where their mouths are.
Uh oh! The new celebratory Girl Scout Cookie has palm oil in it and it’s still not getting rave reviews in the taste department.
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