Following health care reform and the likelihood that a sweeping financial reform package will be approved soon, some say this might be the right time to start seeking Congressional approval to reinstate grants from the National Endowment of the Arts to individual artists.
Nonprofit Newswire | Harvard, Dartmouth, Others Helped Deepen Economic Crisis
The Center for Social Philanthropy at the Tellus Institute released a report this week suggesting that the investment decisions of nonprofit universities with mammoth endowments worsened the nation’s economic crisis because their investment managers “succumbed to Wall Street’s influence” and “took on too much risk."
Nonprofit Newswire | Oil Spill Taxes Fund Summer Jobs
Congress has discovered a way of using BP’s excise tax penalty payments for purposes other than the oil spill clean-up.
Nonprofit Newswire | For-Profits Managing Charter Schools—A Problem?
Unless there is a big editing error in this article, its defense of charter schools in New York that are managed by for-profit companies seems to add up to an unintentional endorsement of nonprofit charter management.
Nonprofit Newswire | May 21, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, entrepreneurs and the recession—celebrate who we are, part-time accountant to nonprofits on alert full-time for fraud, survey: public opinion on nonprofits markedly positive and more.
Nonprofit Newswire | Entrepreneurs and the Recession—Celebrate Who We Are!
Entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. is at its highest rate in 14 years.
Nonprofit Newswire | Part-Time Accountant to Nonprofits On Alert Full-Time For Fraud
While examining the books, an accountant came across a check that the finance director, William Barnes, had written to himself.
Nonprofit Newswire | Survey: Public Opinion on Nonprofits Markedly Positive
According to a survey of 1,000 Americans, the confidence we have in nonprofits is high, with 80 percent saying they think nonprofit performance is “Good to Excellent.”
Nonprofit Newswire | Electric Cooperatives: Are they Short Circuiting Input?
Some of the nation’s longstanding rural electric coops, organizations with New Deal roots, seem to have strayed from their nonprofit and cooperative origins.
Nonprofit Newswire | Terri Schiavo Foundation Allegedly Operating Without Permission, Using Deceased Relative’s Name ‘To Make Money’
In the wake of her death, the family feud that surrounded Terri Schiavo's life and death has spread into the nonprofit realm.
Nonprofit Newswire | Philanthropy Business Booming?
Despite rosy characterizations, the environment for nonprofits in Dane County, Wisconsin, is challenging to say the least.
Nonprofit Newswire | It’s a Hairy Idea, But It’s Catchy Too
People in Florida and other states are donating their hair, as well as fur from their dogs, to be used to create absorbent booms to help soak up some of the oil.