With the hope of retaining farm income in southwest Minnesota while it benefits from a significant land-based transfer of wealth, a community foundation moves into the business of farmland rental.
NLRB Judge Orders Hispanics United to Rehire 5 Workers Fired after They Criticized Employer on Facebook
Employers, employees, and judges are still learning—and making—new rules about what workers can and cannot say in online social media without putting their jobs in jeopardy. In this case, the judge sided with the employees.
Role Reversal: Venture Philanthropists Await Invitation to Lead
The Portland (Oregon) Public Schools Foundation is in the driver’s seat to select a lead convener for a new regional initiative. A venture philanthropy organization wants the role.
Totally Tricked-Out Communications Van Repurposed from Greenpeace to Boost Local Radio Station’s Disaster-Response Capacity
A California Greenpeace chapter donates its sophisticated communications van to a local radio station.
HR Guidance: NLRB Reports Findings in 14 Cases of Terminations Due to Employee Use of Social Media
Last month the National Labor Relations Board issued a report summarizing the outcomes of 14 recent cases where an employee was fired due to his or her use of social media such as Facebook. One case in particular dealt with comments made by an employee of a homeless shelter while she was on the overnight shift at the shelter.
South Asians in the U.S. Look Back at Setbacks and Progress since September 11, 2001
Ten years after 9/11, South Asians in the U.S. are today recalling the low points of the last decade—including incidents of anti-Asian violence and discrimination—as well as some positives, like the fact that the South Asian community is developing advocacy muscle to promote social change.
NPQ’s Week in Review | August 29 – September 2, 2011
Last week, NPQ closely followed the uncovering of multiple fraudulent 9/11 charities, Apple’s Steve Jobs’ apparent lack of charitable giving, and we were happy to see Alan Khazei finally take responsibility for hiring his brother without his nonprofit board’s consent. All this and more in NPQ’s Week in Review.
Veterans Foundation Sued for Trademark Infringement but May Be Guilty of Much More
Yet another veterans charity that’s looking pretty shady. It’s time, we think, for charity regulators to clean out these bad actors of the nonprofit world preying on veterans.
Gates Foundation Puts Millions Into Online College Created by Rick Perry
The Gates Foundation is giving a seven-figure grant to an online college that Texas Governor Rick Perry hopes will compete with the University of Texas system. Does the Gates Foundation feel a little itchy about this proximity to a declared presidential candidate? Should it?
Problems with Private Management of Open Space: The Case of Boston’s Post Office Square
When private interests offer to manage a park or greenway “for free,” cash-strapped municipalities often rejoice. But turning public land over to these ostensibly generous “Friends” can end up costing local governments much more in the end. And there are civil-liberties issues as well.
Boston Mayor Urges Nonprofits to Hire the Unemployed, and Puts Money Where His Mouth Is
Boston Mayor Tom Menino unveiled a citywide jobs package that will offer nonprofits credits against their PILOTs in exchange for hiring unemployed workers. Will it make a difference?
Nonprofit Earned Income: “Capitalism with a Human Face”?
The management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton recently sponsored a conference on earned-income strategies to help nonprofits weather trying economic times. Combining for-profit business activities with a nonprofit mission can be a conceptual challenge.