Following criticism of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s grants to a small number of states to help them apply for Race to the Top moneys, the foundation expanded the availability of its support to more states.
Nonprofit Newswire | Arts Without Artists?
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “public funding for individual artists has virtually vanished from Pennsylvania for the first time in a half century.”
Nonprofit Newswire | Detroit Medical Center Sale Challenged
The interest of for-profit equity firms in acquiring nonprofit hospitals due to the different operating environment emerging through national health care reform will not be without controversy.
Nonprofit Newswire | Charities Cash In on Unused Tickets
At Tix4Cause.com, people who’ve bought tickets they can’t use for sports, music, theater and other entertainment activities can donate the tickets to a charity.
Nonprofit Newswire | March 30, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, theft of nonprofit clinic’s tattoo removal device hurts, Head Start pay increases cause for scandal?, state action urged to stop nonprofits that line politician’s pockets and more.
Nonprofit Newswire | Theft of Nonprofit Clinic’s Tattoo Removal Device Hurts
Without the $50,000 machine, the Sunshine Community Outreach Center can’t operate.
Nonprofit Newswire | Head Start Pay Increases Cause for Scandal?
Apparently there are some conservative groups in Georgia who are outraged at wage increases of “as much as” 8.5% for Head Start workers after the network received a few waves of funding last year including some stimulus funding.
Nonprofit Newswire | State Action Urged to Stop Nonprofits That Line Politician’s Pockets
The lack of state laws governing the operation of nonprofits that directly benefit Michigan politicians have drawn the ire of editorial writers at The Detroit Free Press.
Nonprofit Newswire | Community Organizing Legacy
Those of us old enough to remember Saul Alinsky are all probably in the camp of admirers of Bishop Arthur Brazier from Chicago.
Nonprofit Newswire | AG Questions Health Center Land Deal
Looking for a new site for its headquarters, to be funded by federal stimulus money, a nonprofit community health center bought a piece of land for $705,000, some $100,000 above its 2009 assessed value.
Nonprofit Newswire | Passing the Buck Philanthropy
Thanks to her novel form of philanthropy, Marion Rockefeller Weber’s gifts are given to people whom she trusts will research causes and programs and then pass the money they receive on to ones worthy of support.
Nonprofit Newswire | Quit Corporate Boards
The indomitable Pablo Eisenberg takes university presidents to task for sitting on corporate boards.