In Syracuse, N.Y., a nonprofit community development group—and a member of the NeighborWorks network—contends that federal housing program rules are too restrictive.
Nonprofit Newswire | Glenn Beck’s Nonprofit Ties
Some of the lesser known players wandering past the dais at Beck’s Restoring Honor gathering last week should be of interest to the nonprofit sector if they have questions about the nonprofit values underlying the rally.
Nonprofit Newswire | Donor Disclosure: NY Times Assails the Politician/Charity Link in Editorial
NPQ has been hammering away at the often-found links between charity and politicians for some time, so we are glad to see a major newspaper calling for better regulations for full disclosure.
Nonprofit Newswire | Seattle Foundation Site Seeks to Inform and Engage
Is the Seattle Foundation under former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice demonstrating the next phase of the evolution of community foundations—that is, in terms of how community foundations raise and dispense money?
Nonprofit Newswire | Failed Community Center Receives Unusual Reprieve
In Lorain, Ohio, the St. Joseph Community Center is apparently too important to fail and so the city has devised an unusual “ownership” structure to keep it open.
Nonprofit Newswire | September 8, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, older donors give more says study . . . and what Haiti giving looked like, humanitarian act earns conviction, not-so-magic carpet ride and more.
Nonprofit Newswire | Older Donors Give More Says Study . . . and What Haiti Giving Looked Like
A fundraising survey reveals some interesting statistics about giving.
Nonprofit Newswire | Humanitarian Act Earns a Conviction
After leaving bottles of drinking water on trails near the Arizona-Mexico border so that immigrants walking through the desert wouldn't die of thirst, Daniel Millis was arrested and charged with leaving "garbage" in a national wildlife refuge.
Nonprofit Newswire | Not-So-Magic Carpet Ride
The White House picked the wrong time to redecorate.
Nonprofit Newswire | Stimulus Funds a Tangle for Some Louisiana Nonprofits
Some organizations in Baton Rouge that have been receiving stimulus grants under the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program are ruing the day.
Nonprofit Newswire | Audit Questions Future of Sharpton’s Civil Rights Group
Among the problems uncovered in the audit were some $1.348 million in delinquent city, state and federal taxes and penalties
Nonprofit Newswire | Billy Beane and Outcomes: What Can Baseball Tell the Nonprofit World About Measures and Measurement?
Charity Navigator’s Ken Berger “outcomes consultant” Robert Penna draw on Moneyball’s study of the small-market, low payroll Oakland Athletics to see if different measures of outcomes—or identification of different outcomes altogether—would help nonprofits improve their operations.