As of April 1st, the New York-based Stellaris Health Network said it can “no longer subsidize the record profits” of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and will end its contract with the health plan.
Nonprofit Newswire | Boys & Girls Clubs’ Funding Questioned
A Senatorial inquiry is looking at earmarks and line-item appropriations for the organization that go back to 1997, prompted by Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who ranks the BGCA as one of his favorite groups.
Nonprofit Newswire | High Profits From Elderly Hidden Behind Nonprofits in Erickson Communities
It’s hard to summarize the alleged nonprofit misdeeds of a for-profit retirement community developer prior to the recent bankruptcy of his firm.
Nonprofit Newswire | Feds Questions NY Politicians’ Ties to Nonprofits
Among the prominent politicians under investigation by the U.S. attorney’s public corruption office is the president of the New York State Senate.
Nonprofit Newswire | April 2, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, student loan reform lacks community college supports, sordid scam stops construction on catholic school, taxing nonprofit housing developments? and more.
Nonprofit Newswire | Student Loan Reform Lacks Community College Supports
As student advocates rightly celebrate the victory of curbing debts for future university entrants, community colleges are wondering why they were left out of the loop.
Nonprofit Newswire | Sordid Scam Stops Construction on Catholic School
In Worcester, Mass., Michael Hilady, a so-called professional fundraiser has been charged with bilking nuns out of $370,000.
Nonprofit Newswire | Taxing Nonprofit Housing Developments?
A story from Goshen, Indiana depicts one of many challenges to the tax status of nonprofits all over the country—but with a few interesting twists.
Nonprofit Newswire | Nonprofit Group Wants Ronald McDonald To Go
a nonprofit corporate watchdog group has launched a public campaign to force McDonald’s to retire its well-known spokes-clown.
Nonprofit Newswire | Bank’s Collapse Douses Plans for Fireworks Show
The collapse of a corporate sponsor for a local nonprofit will deprive Seattle of its July 4 pyrotechnics this year.
Nonprofit Newswire | Odd Fit for Fashion School’s Board
Questions are being raised about the fitness of a trustee appointed last September to the board of the Fashion Institute of Technology, considered one of the best known of New York’s state school.
Nonprofit Advocacy and Today’s Civil Rights: Justice for Black Farmers
Black farmers have waited for generations for justice from the federal government. They are going to have to wait some more because Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the Executive Branch failed to live up to a commitment to settle the landmark Pigford case to undo some of the systematic discrimination they have suffered at the hands of the U.S. Department of Agriculture dating back to the Civil War.