A Berkeley, Calif., nonprofit wants CNN.com to provide captions for videos of news programs it posts to the web, but currently federal law only requires that broadcast and cable television content be closed-captioned for the deaf or hearing impaired.
Donations to Hospitals up by 8% and ROI on Fundraising is Down
Fundraising trends: According to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, it costs more each year to raise a dollar and increasing proportions of those dollars raised will have to go towards basic operating costs.
NPQ’s Week in Review | June 13-17, 2011
NPQ’s Week in Review highlights our reader engagement – whether it is in the form of tweets, comments, or contributed articles and Newswires. This week: the nonprofit sector loses 17 percent of itself, we ask, Can you be fired for what you say on Facebook?, and Newt Gingrich flagrantly misuses nonprofits.
The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofits
One of my most life-changing experiences was being a volunteer. My experience reminds us to think about what energy lies fallow around you, and rethink your organizational structure, so as to develop and use it more wisely.
Double and Triple Bottom Lines – P’shaw!
A new paper asserts that double and triple bottom lines are distractions from the core business, which according to the paper’s authors often produces more social good than charitable activities. This position is, of course, not unfamiliar.
Faith-Based Programs Offer Alternative Health Coverage
When – and if – the federal health care reform bill goes into effect in 2014, a group of Americans, currently estimated at 100,000 and growing, won't be required to carry health insurance. Their medical bills won't go unpaid, though. Instead, costs for health needs will be covered through what are known as faith-based health care sharing ministries.
Newt Gingrich in Trouble Again – Self-Dealing in the Nonprofit Sector
Just like his time as Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is playing fast and loose with charities he controls, using them for his own political purposes and, potentially for self-dealing and self-enrichment. A presidential candidate who screws around with nonprofits and foundations disqualifies himself for the highest office in the land.
Report: Nonprofit Colleges Have Higher Profit Margins than for Profits
A recent report from the libertarian Cato Institute says that nonprofit colleges and universities have higher profit margins than their for-profit and public counterparts, prompting a call for federal aid to students to be cut entirely.
Nonprofits a Lynchpin of the Long Island Economy
Nonprofits are not simply generators of economic activity in many regions, but in the midst of a recession, often a part of the economy that is growing faster than the private sector. Is this a good thing?
Facebook Firings and the Labor Relations Board: What Nonprofits Need to Know
Employees have always felt free to trash-talk their bosses – usually around the water cooler, when not in hearing distance. It is part of our national ethos. And particularly now, when our tenure with any given employer tends to be shorter and our means of communication are ever easier (think Twitter, Facebook), we may feel even more empowered to express ourselves. Why not? There’s not much to lose . . . or is there?
Wikileaks on a Bitcoin Raising Campaign
Strange new fundraising! Wikileaks has now declared that it will be raising Bitcoins – untraceable digital cash – to try to bypass some of the problems that it has had in dealing with donations online.
Ohio Home Repair Nonprofit Develops, Grows, and Modernizes
This three-part series looking analytically but sympathetically at the operations of a local nonprofit – in this case, the Home Repair Resource Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio –is a great example of the role that local newspapers can play to educate the public about the nonprofit sector.