Play ball! With financing Grapefruit League and Cactus League baseball stadiums, that is.
Foundations Embrace Failure: Real Lessons Learned
Foundations and other institutions are increasingly congratulating themselves for their new openness to “embracing failure” – being willing to talk about mistakes, admit them, and try to learn from them. Is this posturing or is it for real? And to what end?
Minnesota to HMOs: Share the Wealth!
In Minnesota, the governor is suggesting that the state’s nonprofit HMOs pitch in some of the $1.36 billion they hold in surpluses to the state budget to help close a $5 billion deficit.
Volunteer Groups Get Helping Hand from New Tool Bank
To save volunteer groups the cost of buying tools for community improvement projects, nonprofits can now borrow the equipment they need from a newly opened Community Tool Bank in Charlotte, N.C.
Hardballs Flying around Future of Historic Baseball Stadium in Oregon
What’s the best use of a dilapidated but historic baseball stadium? Public entities with different goals grapple with community input and redevelopment decision.
MediSys Board Finally Fires CEO who was Charged with Bribery in 2008
How many politicians do you have to bribe before a board will fire its CEO? Ask the board of MediSys in New York City.
Should a Nonprofit Have to Disclose Campaign Expenditures?
The Nebraska chapter of Common Cause thinks that election mailings sent by Americans for Progress qualify it to have to disclose how much money it spent under campaign finance regulations.
Chattanooga Tells Nonprofits – Ask the Other Guys
The city council in Chattanooga, Tenn. is asking nonprofits it funds to spread their requests for funding among all the municipalities from which their clients come.
Cuts Create Increased Demand for Adult Day Care
Budget cuts reverberate in multiple ways. In Houma, La., state Medicaid cuts prompts growth in day care program for disabled adults.
Crunch Time For Nonprofits? A Panel Discussion
Streaming live: Welcome to a panel discussion of Crunch Time For Nonprofits?, co-sponsored by the Nonprofit Quarterly and the Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal and the Center on Philanthropy. Today's discussion includes Tim Delaney and the Urban Institute's Eugene Steuerle, along with Ivye Allen of the Foundation for the Mid South and Steven Malanga of the Manhattan Institute. Bradley Center Director William Schambra moderates the discussion.
Nonprofits See, Feel Continuing Recession
For anyone looking for signs that the recession is over and that things are brightening, a just released survey of 1,900 nonprofits in the United States offers little comfort.
Feeling Under-Taxed? One S.D. Legislator’s Answer
South Dakota Republican legislator Hall Wick submitted a bill, now signed into law, which would set up an endowment into which people can donate money for state projects.