Three of the biggest names in U.S. pharmaceuticals are joining together to create an Asian-based nonprofit that aims to develop new medicines to treat the growing incidence of gastric and lung cancers in that part of the world.
Nonprofit Newswire | From a Disgraced ACORN Grows a New Organization
A rose by another name still smells the same, but what about an ACORN?
Nonprofit Newswire | California Nonprofits Unite to Confront Rising Health Care Costs
Some nonprofits are handling the increase in health care costs by collectively purchasing insurance through the California Association of Nonprofits.
Nonprofit Newswire | U.S. Approves Settlement for Black Farmers
This month, the Obama Administration settled Pigford, the case that attempted to rectify decades of overt and documented systematic discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture against black farmers.
Nonprofit Newswire | February 24, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, the state of the states and nonprofit capacity, trucking deal fuels investigation into Oregon nonprofit, nonprofit network exposes mortgage scams and more.
Nonprofit Newswire | The State of the States and Nonprofit Capacity
Thanks to the United Way of Pennsylvania which released findings from their study on the lasting effects on state-contracted nonprofits of the state’s 101 day budget impasse of last year.
Nonprofit Newswire | Trucking Deal Fuels Investigation into Oregon Nonprofit
Officials are fuming over allegations that an Oregon-based nonprofit that promotes green energy helped a Texas trucking company win millions of dollars of tax credits to cut its fuel consumption but so far has failed to return any benefits to the state or its residents.
Nonprofit Newswire | Nonprofit Network Exposes Mortgage Scams
The Nonprofit Quarterly has long lauded the excellent work of many national and local nonprofits on the subprime mortgage foreclosure crisis.
Nonprofit Newswire | Bully on Downing?
According to Time magazine, a few books recently published in the UK described Prime Minister Gordon Brown as prone to “volcanic rages,” “lobbing mobile phones,” and “choice epithets.”
Nonprofit Newswire | Hospitals Serving Poor Face Budget Trauma in NY
New York’s Governor David Patterson is proposing massive cuts to the public hospital system in his 2011 budget.
Nonprofit Newswire | The Nonprofit Underground
It’s no surprise that a British charity that promotes environmentally friendly burials is a big proponent of recycling.
ACORN Down, But Are They Out?
The newswires are awash with reports that ACORN has gone under and dissolved, but ACORN itself says something somewhat different. ACORN has suffered some significant financial challenges in the wake of the pimp-and-prostitute video sting, the organization’s image and reputation took body blows that were not helped by unrelenting negative coverage on Fox News, and ACORN’s hard-to-find announcement of a positive and forthright plan for implementing independent recommendations left some observers hanging. It seems ACORN is down, but not officially out.