Jack Shakely is something of an icon in the foundation world. Now the icon has called for the elimination of the charitable tax deduction, a core tenet of the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors’ public policy advocacy agenda.
A cash-strapped city looks to try to close nearly half its recreation centers, and the local Occupy group is in the mix of those objecting.
Whoever would have thought that former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine would find himself in the pantheon of financial criminals of the likes of Bernie Madoff, Tom Petters, R. Allen Stanford, and others? The bankruptcy of Corzine’s MF Global Holdings has impacted charities, beginning with the cessation of charitable giving by the CME Trust.
What is the relationship between a nonprofit and its members? This case of a Hmong community center raises some interesting questions.
A couple of Rhode Island charities signed up with a business coalition created to advocate for state pension reform. State workers unions appear to be unhappy, and have let their members know about the political stances of the organizations they might once have supported with charitable donations.
Mozilla has launched a new charity campaign challenge driven by big name celebrities such as Barbra Streisand, Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, and Zooey Deschanel. Whichever celebrity raises the most by January 11, 2012, will win an additional $25,000 from Mozilla to contribute to his or her selected charity.
It is well-known that home health workers make terrible wages for very difficult work, but is it because the contracts don’t allow for more? Not in the case of this program but did workers’ wages rise or did the agencies just keep the change?
Northwest Youth Services, a nonprofit with a 35-year history serving homeless and runaway youth in Bellingham, Washington, has had some success with thinking creatively about how to fill state funding gaps during the past few years.
As holiday fads go, this one—made up of charitable impulse that is at once personal and focused on others—is better than most.
It is said that it takes three weeks of daily repetition to establish a new habit, and this dynamic shapes several new web-based philanthropic challenges. How might these emerging models shape charitable giving?
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signature makes New York State the fourth state to approve the concept of “benefit corporations,” one of the increasingly popular hybrid alternatives to traditional for-profit corporations and tax-exempt nonprofits. Should nonprofits be concerned that their social benefit role is being usurped by hybrids?
Some people think that the Citizens United decision of the U.S. Supreme Court was bad for campaign financing and bad too for the image of the nonprofit sector, as tax-exempt 501(c)(4)’s get used as all-too-obvious vehicles for special interest moneys circumventing public disclosure to influence elections. Is it time for a constitutional amendment to undo CU? Public Citizen thinks so.