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.
Art Pope, Bankroller of North Carolina’s Republican Agenda, Tells All
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.
Bad Budget News in State Capitols Means More Bad News for Cities and Nonprofits
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.
American Artist Lands Sydney City Council in Hot Water
“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.
NYPD Arrest 700 Occupy Wall Street Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
Accounts differed as to whether the protesters ignored warnings not to walk on the bridge roadway or were lured by police and then arrested, or a little of both. But the arrests put the New York City protests on the world’s front pages for the first time.
NPQ’s Week in Review | September 26 – September 30, 2011
Last week, NPQ covered new calls to rein in Wall Street speculation while raising revenue. We reported on nonprofits finding new and innovative crowdsourcing methods to gether info about crumbling infrastructure or generate ideas to stem water pollution. And we met a couple of teenage girls who have successfully taken their anti-palm-oil campaign all the way to the top of the Girl Scouts’ cookie-selling operation. All this and more in NPQ’s Week in Review.
Nonprofit Exec Running for Governor in Louisiana Leaves Organization to Avoid Political Retribution
Hoping to face Bobby Jindal in the Louisiana gubernatorial election, Androniki Papazoglakis has taken a leave of absence from her position with a nonprofit that advocates on domestic violence and sexual abuse issues. She believes that staying with the nonprofit exposes it to political retribution from the Jindal Administration.
Elmo’s Bad Awful Day: Glenn Beck Launches Children’s Show to Challenge PBS Programming
Imagine the reactions of Bert, Ernie, Elmo, Oscar, and the gang at Sesame Street—backed by the nonprofit Sesame Workshop—when they learned that Glenn Beck is launching a new children’s show to compete for the ideological hearts and minds of America’s TV-watching children.
NPQ’s Week in Review | October 3 – October 7, 2011
Last week, NPQ closely covered the fascinating Occupy Wall Street movement while also raising questions on their demands, which our readers rushed to answer. A billionare reached out to the people to see where he should put his money to create sustainable jobs for the poor or unemployed. Starbucks also announced their new innovative corporate philanthropic efforts. All this and more in NPQ’s Week in Review.
NPQ’s Week in Review | October 10 – October 14, 2011
NPQ continues to closely monitor the Occupy Wall Street movement, and asks our readers to join our conversation on how much we really trust billionaire philanthopists to improve communities. The Awesome Foundation shows us innovative small scale philanthropy and FRC and AFA are revealed as groups with anti-gay agendas, how will this effect Republican candidates associated with them?
Forward Rebels Dissolves as a Nonprofit–If It Ever Really Was One
Do you think it’s tough to be a political candidate facing attack ads launched by vitriolic 501(c)(4)s and 527s? Try being the leadership of a state university whose football team gets creamed every Saturday by powerhouses like Alabama, Auburn, and Florida. Forward Rebels is excoriating the leadership of the University of Mississippi, but is it a nonprofit or what?
Cities Report Continuing Fiscal Distress in 2011
The economy is continuing to whack local-government revenues, causing cities to cut back on expenditures and raise service fees and property tax rates. The repercussions for nonprofits will not be good.