This week Michigan Corps unveils plans to raise money from former residents willing to help the state recover from the damage wrought by the recession.
Nonprofit Newswire | Jerry Garcia’s Legacy Lives on in S.F.
One of the philanthropic accomplishments of the Grateful Dead is the Rex Foundation, which was founded in 1983 to help people in the arts, sciences, and education.
Questions of Transparency Cloud the Social Innovation Fund
The Obama administration has promised the American public that it would be the most open and transparent administration in U.S. history. To date, that promise has been contradicted by the design and implementation of the Social Innovation Fund, the administration’s flagship program for the nonprofit sector.
Nonprofit Newswire | July 30, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, trickle up philanthropy, WikiLeaks challenged, and Michel Moore creates nonprofit movie houses.
Nonprofit Newswire | Funders of Pro-Fiorina Group Hard to Trace
With the impending 2010 Congressional and gubernatorial elections, we can now begin to monitor how nonprofits are created to support various candidates.
Nonprofit Newswire | New Jersey Legal Aid Account Plummets with Housing Market slowdown
That’s right, folks—an 80 percent drop in funding for legal services in New Jersey in an environment in which the need for legal representation has increased significantly.
Nonprofit Newswire | Compassion, a Living Wage, or Both?
Compassion-motivated interns and AmeriCorps workers, like one young woman profiled in the article, discover that they can’t live on the low and lower levels of compensation they get in the nonprofit sector and have to find second jobs or “freelance work” to survive.
Nonprofit Newswire | Michael Moore Backs Plan to Create Nonprofit Movie Houses
Michael Moore is setting up a fund to provide grants and training to theater operators willing to refurbish downtown movie houses, whose glory has long faded, and run them as nonprofits.
Nonprofit Newswire | Trickle Up Philanthropy
The appearance of millionaires and billionaires in other nations is leading to the creation of non-U.S. foundations that might lead to a “reverse philanthropy with the vibrant East and South sending help to the developed countries.”
Nonprofit Newswire | WikiLeaks is Challenged on Its Own Transparency
The Neiman Journalism Lab challenges WikiLeaks—established to improve transparency in others—on its own transparency.
Nonprofit Newswire | New Haven Eliminating Nonprofits
New Haven City Council is visiting or revisiting whether nonprofits are really nonprofits for municipal tax purposes.
Nonprofit Newswire | Local Y Cut Precipitously in Washington State
In Monroe, Wash. the five-member City Council has voted to end its commitment to the Y as part of the city’s attempt to close the budget gap.