We found some interesting nonprofit employment data hanging out on the website of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a small but important research shop at HHS. The numbers indicate that the stimulus probably boosted overall nonprofit employment in 2010, but also that the smallest nonprofits seem to be struggling.
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When two big funders in a region disappear, the nonprofit pain is palpable. In metropolitan DC, the philanthropy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac looks like it is soon going to be history. What will DC nonprofits do? What can they do?
If you had a billion dollars to create jobs, how would you do it? Tell this guy.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. earned $145 million for his five most recent prizefights against a series of tin cans. He nicknamed himself “Money,” but how much of his earnings end up going to and through his foundation to reach nonprofits that help poor people in Las Vegas and Grand Rapids?
There are lessons to be learned from for-profit scandals such as Worldcom and Tyco (and Enron) and from nonprofit scandals such as the recent one at the Merrimack Special Education Collaborative in Massachusetts. These lessons seem obvious, but if they’re so obvious, why do so many organizations honor them in the breach?
Local Tea Party groups are struggling to raise money while national organizations that have glommed onto the movement are raking in many millions. Surprised? We’re not.
Charity Navigator says to steer clear of a group called the Veterans Support Organization for multiple reasons made clear in this article. But why do we encounter so many rip-off artists using 501(c)(3)s to prey on veterans and their real supporters?
Calling up for a pizza to be delivered is so twentieth-century. Nowadays, when hungry and in a protest encampment, we tweet.
Healthcare spending in the U.S. is unsustainable. Therefore, for healthcare reform to work, someone—patients, doctors, hospitals—is going to have to give up something. That painful process seems to be underway now in Arizona.
What ideas, visions, and agendas make a major funder of conservative or libertarian 501(c)(4)s and ideologically conservative 501(c)(3) nonprofit think tanks tick? The New Yorker profiles North Carolina’s Art Pope, the Tar Heel State’s version of the Koch brothers.
Cascading state budget cuts sweep out of state capitols and wash away municipal budgets in Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, and other states. The result will be very bad news for the nonprofit service providers that get part of their budgets from mayors and city councils.
“Is it Art?” An age-old question that probably can never be definitively answered. In the meantime, American artist Barry McGee’s controversial work is drawing fire from locals in Sydney.