Based in Clearwater, Florida, WorkNet Pinellas fired its YouthBuild program director for training and employing young people to collect petitions to get a candidate for the County Commission onto the ballot.
New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada is reportedly researching a proposal that would use new revenue from nonprofits to fund tax relief for others.
How odd that in the state whose senator, Republican Charles Grassley, is one of the nation’s foremost political advocates of nonprofit accountability, that yet another high profile nonprofit is banner headline news—for a shortfall in accountability..
The investigation of the Boys and Girls Clubs’ compensation of its CEO has again surfaced a longstanding disagreement about the basis on which nonprofit CEO salaries are figured and justified.
Though we may be drawn to it in our reading choices and sometimes, regrettably in our personal relationships, mystery is something most of us would rather not see as a major characteristic of philanthropic institutions. Especially when our view of the door leading to the riches is obscured.
Philanthropy is voluntary action for the common good. People voluntarily give their time and / or their money. Voluntarily. Not because they were pressured by a friend or were exchanging favors with a business associate. Or fulfilling some obligation.
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, ACLU sues New York, donor sues for return of gift, schools perched on funding cliff and more.
A class-action suit being brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the State of New York argues that the public defender system doesn’t adequately provide representation to defendants in criminal trials.
Bearing Point, Inc., a consulting firm, pledged $30 million to Yale University . . . and, in fact paid the university $8.1 million. But now it wants it back.
In Omaha, the school district is already beginning the process of determining which and how many of its 8,224 employees will be laid off over the next two years as stimulus funds disappear.
Virginia Thomas, the wife of taciturn Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is bursting out all over, getting quoted in the press for her comments at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference last month.
Of the 10 charities receiving part of Obama’s $1.4 million Nobel Prize award, six directly support higher education for student groups that are traditionally underserved.