Imperious doesn’t even cover it when Pierre Cardin takes a French village for his own from his perch in the former abode of the Marquis De Sade, and calls it philanthropy . . . will he be whipping the servants next?

After an unsuccessful attempt at preventing Chicago’s City Council from voting to close six public mental-health clinics, a grassroots advocacy organization re-strategizes.

The supercommittee threat to the charitable deduction, if it ever existed, is gone. Why don’t nonprofits stand up for the charitable tax deduction by severing it from the regressive and costly mortgage interest deduction and state and local tax deduction and calling for capping those regressive pieces of the tax code?

Newt Gingrich is longing for the good old days when you could just farm your eight year olds out for hire if you needed a bit of extra income.

One of the options facing Second Mile, the Central Pennsylvania youth charity reeling from the Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, is to shut down.  The board is considering that along with alternative strategies. 

Is mandating volunteering as oxymoron and don’t you just love it when people try to “build community” by regulation?

Second Mile is in lots of trouble due to the Sandusky scandal regarding alleged sexual abuse of Second Mile kids. The Second Mile board has now hired former Philadelphia DA Lynne Abraham for what seems like an internal review of what went wrong and what the charity has to do to recover. Will it work?

A shocking revelation from the investigative team at MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes” has huge meaning for the nonprofit sector. A lobbying firm pitched an $850,000 oppositional research attack for the American Bankers Association against Occupy Wall Street.  This could have just as easily been an attack fomented on a nonprofit critic of the corporate world.   

While organizers stress common goals, rural and urban Occupy demonstrations reflect differences between small and large communities. These different community environments also influence leadership dynamics even for a self-described leaderless movement.

This weekend’s news was that the supercommittee is going to announce that the marriage of both parties is over. The divorce will involve a division of assets, meaning a sequestration of federal government spending, meaning cuts. Good or bad for nonprofits?

Vito Lopez, political powerhouse of Brooklyn’s machine politics and Democratic member of the New York State Assembly, is as controversial as they come. Now comes news that the nonprofit he founded and largely dominates has been eviscerated in a New York City Department of Investigation report. No surprise here.

Bullis Charter School, a taxpayer-funded elementary school in Silicon Valley, gives admission preference to residents of the affluent Los Altos Hills community. In exchange for a “donation” of $5,000 (about one-fifth the cost of private school tuition), Bullis parents get a private-school-quality education for their kid that is subsidized, in part, by funds siphoned from public schools in neighboring lower-income communities.