How often do environmental groups take positions on lesbian and gay marriage? The Sierra Club in Minnesota is doing just that.
JC Penney Utilizes Social Media for Charitable Giving This Holiday Season
This Thanksgiving season, JC Penney is launching several new digital initiatives that exemplify just how simple social media can make charitable giving.
Can Nonprofit Status Strengthen Community Voice of Public Access Television Station?
In suburban Portland, Oregon, the already blurred boundaries between nonprofits and public entities are showing up in a new way, as leaders of a publicly owned community television station seek to reorganize as a nonprofit in order to survive.
RWJ Study: Consumer Involvement Strengthens Health Advocacy Outcomes
Foundations have fostered innovation in health and health care for the better part of the twentieth century. Many of these innovations are well documented and widely acknowledged. What’s less documented and largely unquantified is the impact foundation investments can have in helping to ensure that the voice of the American consumer is heard in health policy debates. This is particularly timely as work gets underway to implement numerous provisions of the Affordable Care Act in the months and years ahead.
Marrying Someone Who Works for Islamic Relief USA Causes Federal Worker to Lose Security Clearance
Islamic Relief USA is a humanitarian-aid charity deemed legitimate enough to partner with U.S. federal agencies. Nonetheless, for one poor guy working for a federal agency, marrying a program associate at the charity was enough for him to lose his government security clearance.
Community Action Agency Stiffs Employees in Big Way: Another Board Asleep at the Switch
Another board neglects its oversight responsibilities and creates havoc in the lives of loyal former employees.
Glenn Beck Is “Knight in Shining Armor” to Colorado Nonprofit
Perhaps unwittingly, Glenn Beck may have done something right regarding the separation of church and state. A nonprofit that refused to “secularize” its program, and consequently lost a $25,000 HUD grant, is getting $55,000 from the talk show personality, who, since leaving Fox, has his own Internet channel.
Charitable Money Flowed to Second Mile During State’s Three-Year Investigation of Sandusky
While the state AG—who is now Pennsylvania’s governor—was investigating Sandusky, no one tipped off foundation funders that there might be something seriously wrong at Sandusky’s at-risk youth charity, Second Mile. When prosecutors brought information about Sandusky to the attention of Second Mile executives, long before the AG’s investigation, no one tipped off funders that Second Mile was a managerially and perhaps morally troubled agency. It has to gall the family and corporate foundations that put their money to Second City with the best of intentions only to have a national scandal erupt around them.
Elected Officials Come Out against Early Morning Ouster of OWS in NYC
In an extraordinary show of support, a number of elected officials from the state and city of New York convened outside the state supreme court in Lower Manhattan Tuesday to decry the early morning raid on the occupiers of Zuccotti Park.
Massachusetts Church Gives Building and $4.8 Mil Endowment to Social Justice Organization
A struggling UCC congregation gives its building and $4.8 million endowment to a like-minded social justice organization
Does Your Board Include a 12 year old? Maybe It Should!
In Florida, the new Friends of the Walton County Animal Shelter counts itself lucky to have the enthusiasm, energy, and ideas of its first (we assume) 12-year-old trustee in Jessica Anth.
The Nonprofit Ethicist | Is My Organization’s Executive Director Ethically Tone Deaf?
Is it a conflict of interest for a director to raise money for others through his business, since he is the chief fundraiser for the social service organization that employs him? This question and others are masterfully answered by Woods Bowman, Nonprofit Ethicist!