The search is on in New York for a nonprofit group willing to participate in a new city program to reduce some of the $300 million it spends each year on waste disposal by encouraging residents to donate used clothing rather than throw it away.
Philanthropy’s Moral Dilemma, Part 3

Progressive philanthropy fights injustice and promotes social change. Social change philanthropy questions the status quo. It’s almost always hard going against the status quo. Why? Because people—and institutions and government—are threatened by change.
Nonprofit Newswire | May 26, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, saving the world is good for your health, an oversight or simply no oversight?, Kansas restricts voluntary admissions to “mental hospitals” and more.
Nonprofit Newswire | Saving the World is Good for Your Health
Activism gives meaning and purpose to life, while making us feel happier, more competent, autonomous, secure, and connected.
Nonprofit Newswire | An Oversight or Simply No Oversight?
Two charities that previously earned a tongue lashing from Congress for spending more money on overhead than the veterans they are supposed to help are themselves—because of lax oversight—on the receiving end of a federal program that helps direct employee donations to "worthwhile" causes.
Nonprofit Newswire | Kansas Restricts Voluntary Admissions to “Mental Hospitals”
Kansas' Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services has announced a suspension of voluntary admissions of mentally ill people to hospitals.
Nonprofit Newswire | Wolves (Okay, Just CPAs) in Nonprofit Clothing
The IRS has accorded 501(c)(3) status to 13,797 groups that claimed to be tax-assistance nonprofits for low-income and elderly taxpayers. It seems almost a fifth were given a nonprofit designation that they didn’t merit.
Nonprofit Newswire | Some Worry Nonprofits Bring Crime to Wailuku
Are too many nonprofits dragging downtown down?
Nonprofit Newswire | Real Change—Not in My Backyard
A bid to relocate a nonprofit “street newspaper” sold by homeless vendors is meeting resistance.
Nonprofit Newswire | Fraud in the Midst of Nonprofit Bankruptcy?
SeedAmerica Foundation, facing bankruptcy because of its failure to turn abandoned properties into profitable office space, demolished a building and then pocketed the proceeds.
Nonprofit Newswire | Walmart Foundation Says: Take Our Money, Please!
The California State Giving Program has "gone almost untapped" in parts of the state.
Dr. Conflict | Spring 2010
Dr. Conflict guides an employee on a major human-resources mess.