As Minnesota goes, so goes perhaps Iowa? Massachusetts? Which other states might follow Minnesota's budget stalemate and shut down?
Charter Schools, Now Charter Cities?
One of the Aspen Ideas Festival’s self-described “ideas entrepreneurs” has a nonprofit pushing the concept of charter cities, defined as “special reform zones that allow governments to quickly adopt innovative new systems of rules, rules that can be markedly different from those in the rest of the country.”
“Sesame Street” on Wall Street?
We need a philanthropist to bankroll a TV program to explain Wall Street and the U.S. economy to the American public, says former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
Anonymous Donor Gives $5 million to the Children of Christchurch
In the wake of the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand last February, a donor who wished to remain anonymous and evidently had no ties to the area gave $5 million to establish community based programs for schoolchildren of the area.
Mobilizing Young People Through Texting: R U Ready?
A national youth organization wants to become the AARP for young people through mobile technology.
Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Seriously Harm State Economies
Families USA has released a report that details the economic effects of Republican proposed Medicaid cuts on the states. How does your state rank?
How do you thank your donors?
Make sure it’s a really great thank-you letter. Make me, the donor, feel special. Tell me why my gift matters. Explain how my investment makes a difference. With all that, I’ll understand that I matter…me the donor. Then I’ll suspect that my future investments will matter, too. And I’ll keep on giving.
NPQ’s Week in Review | June 27- July 1, 2011
NPQ’s Week in Review. This week: the government shuts down in Minnesota, Illinois “borrows” $2 million from taxpayers, and nonprofit health insurers are making hay.
Social Entrepreneurship as Fetish
Sometimes when I listen to political argumentation (I just cannot call it dialogue), it all seems like a stylized verbal dance with little substance. Everyone is displaying lots of plumage, however, apparently in an effort to demonstrate who they are ideologically, rather than achieving a reasonable and just outcome.
NPQ’s Week in Review | July 4- July 8, 2011
This week in the Week in Review: Minnesota may not be the only state’s government to shut down, FOX wages war on Media Matters, and great thinkers at Aspen are contemplating the idea of “charter cities” . . . what?
Fox News Declares War on the Tax Exempt Status of Media Matters
Media Matters for America is a progressive nonprofit watchdog monitoring conservative media, taking particular aim at the cast of characters on Fox News such as Beck and O’Reilly. Fox News is countering by organizing a campaign to challenge the organization’s nonprofit tax status.
What the Government Shutdown in Minnesota Means for Nonprofits and Communities
NPQ’s Ruth McCambridge talked with Jon Pratt of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and Kate Barr of the Minnesota-based Nonprofit Assistance Fund to get a sense of what a Minnesota state government shutdown would mean for nonprofits and what the two organizations are doing to prepare groups for what is expected to be weeks of life in limbo. Our conversation begins with the judge’s decision, and quickly moves to take on the larger issue of the impact of this shutdown on nonprofits – guidance for nonprofits in the state, special loan funds to bridge the shutdown, and the role of the media during the run-up to the shutdown.