Promise Neighborhoods and Choice Neighborhoods are President Obama’s anti-poverty agenda. That’s all? Do they compensate for the President’s proposed cuts in bread-and-butter anti-poverty programs?
Hey Mr. Fundraiser . . . quit asking your board members to trespass
Stop asking board members to trespass on personal and professional relationships. This all-too-typical tactic makes board members uncomfortable, thus making them reluctant to help. Furthermore, it doesn’t produce loyal donors or sustainable gifts.
Mixed Funding and Creative Partnerships Lead to Summer School Program Growth
In spite of budget cuts four summer enrichment programs have found ways to maintain funding and keep summer productive for local students
African American Cultural Center Struggles to Gain Foothold
The August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh is struggling to gain a foothold in the midst of a still troublesome economy. The center opened in 2009 after years of planning but also right as the recession took hold and since then has experienced less than hoped for financial performance.
Innovation: New Nonprofit Urges Young to Buy Young
Citing the high unemployment rate for people in their late teens and twenties, Our Time, a new nonprofit that appears to be mixing social enterprise with advocacy aims to bring young entrepreneurs together with policy makers to focus on the role of young people in the future of the economy.
Innovation: Nonprofit Brings Organic Produce to Convenience Store Parking Lots
Think of the term ‘convenience store,’ and soda, chips, maybe some milk, beer or a lottery ticket come to mind. But organic produce, too? Yes, thanks to a creative nonprofit/corporate partnership in Oregon.
Strange Revenue: Children Benefit From Traffic Fines
In Kane County, Illinois, a $10 fee has been added to fines for speeding and other petty traffic offenses and it will be passed along to (what else?) the local child advocacy center.
Is El Paso Church Engaged in Inappropriate Political Campaigning?
It's election season, and complaints about churches violating their tax exempt status by engaging in partisan political campaigning will begin to pop up. This is an example of a recent complaint from According to Americans United for the Separation of Church and State about a minister's statements in El Paso.
An Informed and Bold Alternative to Obama Jobs Plan
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich is the latest to whack President Obama's tepid job creation program. Reich's proposals are bold and sound like they have lots of room for nonprofits.
Investing in Nonprofit Business Enterprise Planning
A funder collaborative based in British Columbia awards planning grants to nonprofits exploring earned-income ventures.
ProPublica Explains Super-PACs, 527s, and 501(c)(4)s in Campaign Finance
If you’re watching the presidential campaign, more confusing than the names and numbers of putative candidates tromping through Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina is the array of tax exempt organizations soliciting and spending money more or less on behalf of the candidates. ProPublica has published a very useful scorecard for classifying the players and their positions in the campaign finance game.
Privatization of Economic Development Stirs Controversy in Ohio
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has decided to kick start his new economic development engine with a nonprofit job-creation board called JobsOhio. But the creation of the board has not been without controversy.