One thing that gets reasonably widespread support from both Democrats and Republicans is charter schools. In New Hampshire, Jon Huntsman scored a few points with a visit to a charter school for an iPad giveaway.
Volunteers Needed for Day of Service: This Honors Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The national holiday of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. is a couple of weeks away, to be honored by thousands of “Day of Service” activities promoted by the White House and the Corporation for National and Community Service. Do these capture Dr. King’s meaning of the concept of service?
Mystery Donor Gives $1.5 Million in Honor of a Dog She Did Not Know
File this story under the value of letting people in the public know what you do and why you do it.
Who the Heck Are You Talking to? Donor Relations
The other night I was sitting with a friend who is one of the more politically aware people I know as regards international politics, and he started talking to me about a letter he had received from a well-known human rights organization of which he is a long time member. He was flummoxed by its tone and…yes, offended. Here is the reaction the letter got.
Anonymous: Busy Hacktivists with a Political Change Agenda
Over the holidays, Anonymous, or something akin to Anonymous, struck again. With a history of challenging the Church of Scientology, attacking those who erected financial blockades against Wikileaks, protesting against the San Francisco BART system’s cellphone policies, and supporting the Arab Spring protests, these anonymous Internet “hacktivists” are pursuing an eclectic agenda of political and social change. But the Christmas Eve action on the Stratfor security group that many are attributing to Anonymous had many quirks and particularly interesting nonprofit implications.
Homeless Forming Tent Cities throughout the U.S.: Eloquent Visible Statements about Social Inequities
The Occupy Wall Street protesters live in tent cities by choice to make a conscious statement about the unequal concentration of wealth and power in American society. In other tent cities, the occupants are the poor and the homeless—not intending to make political statements but constituting powerful visual statements about the reality of America’s 1 percent and the people at the bottom of the 99 percent.
Staff More Satisfied at Nonprofit than For-Profit Nursing Homes—Why?
A good deal of research has been done comparing nonprofit to for-profit nursing homes, but this one, comparing the satisfaction of staff, may have wider application.
The Importance of Talking in Class
A recent study reveals that the academic building block of speaking up in class has links to social and economic class.
Occupy Shareholders Engaging with Shareholder Resolutions? It’s Happening. . . .
Some foundations and religious orders have long advocated using their proxy voting rights as institutional investors for shareholder resolutions to address environmental, social, and governance issues associated with the beneficiaries of their investments. Did the Occupy movement camping out at Zuccotti Park in the shadows of Wall Street contribute to the record-breaking shareholder resolutions activity in 2011—including moving foundations to use the power of their investment portfolios?
Online Fundraising Guidance Flows from Convio and Network for Good
We love the studies from the processors of online donations that use the data they assemble as a research base. Among other things, we now know that 22 percent of online donations come in on the last two days of the year.
Second Mile Finding No Support among Other Nonprofits
Tainted by the charges concerning former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, Second Mile is trying to shed some of its programs. It hopes to get other nonprofits to take them over, but unfortunately there are few nonprofits that want to be seen as running Second Mile’s programs.
The World’s Greatest Charitable Fundraiser? Bill Clinton Has Had a Great Decade
Being a former president of the United States helps Bill Clinton raise money for his eponymous foundation, but the numbers are huge and the donors politically quite diverse.