There is no better model of nonprofit advocacy than Eloise Cobell’s leadership in the long-running litigation over the federal government’s historic misadministration (or worse) of Indian lands and the billions in mineral royalties the Indians were owed.
Teaching for Change, which promotes social justice in the classroom, is frequently the victim of theft.
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, healthy success stories of the stimulus, local cuts to health centers, a big move in Wyoming, generosity puts a small town on the map, Chicago’s trouble paying its bills, and enough to make Santa cry.
Thieves in Kansas City stole car parts from vehicles donated to charity, causing $3,000 in damages.
Illinois is behind in paying its bills, and it has some area nonprofits feeling the chill.
Generosity makes a small Michigan town stronger – and ranks it among the best places to live.
Wyoming may no longer be without a statewide legal services system if a new bill succeeds.
Some states are still facing down cuts to local funding of health centers as this article chronicles.
In terms of both economics and human health, the outcomes from ARRA funding of health centers is impressive.
The paranoia among conservatives about the ubiquitous tentacles of ACORN has reached the Corporation for National and Community Service. Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center, a Washington-based conservative think-tank on nonprofit and philanthropic issues, wrote a piece describing Patrick Corvington, the new CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, as a “friend of ACORN.” To Vadum, Corvington is one more unrepentant, extremist left-winger appointed to a senior post by President Obama.
Already in trouble for steering public funds to two “fishy nonprofits,” former D.C. mayor, now Council member, Marion S. Barry, appears to be in trouble again, this time for sexual harassment.
Nonprofits in New York’s Sassau and Suffolk Counties will be monitored by government agencies to ensure government funds are not allocated to organizations that force clients to engage in religious activities or discriminate against clients because of their religious beliefs.