The Administration’s plans to freeze domestic spending while expanding child care subsidies is puzzling.
Nonprofit Newswire | Child Care Funding and the Freeze
Nonprofit Newswire | On Obama and the Budget Freeze
President Obama’s three-year spending freeze on domestic discretionary programs is sort of a political Rorschach test.
The Nonprofit Ethicist | On Founder Over-Involvement
An new executive director asks about founder over-involvement and husband and wife board members.
Read the Ethicist's take on mergers and continue to comment.
Nonprofit Riches and Ethics
I feel like I have been immersed lately in stories about organizational oversights and am reminded that morality requires foresight. In other words, if you don’t recognize the possible consequences of an action taken or not taken, you may be putting important things, relationships, and people at risk.
Nonprofit Newswire | Cuomo Files Suit to Shut Down Fund-Raisers
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is litigating to shut down four for-profit telemarketing companies that used deceptive or misleading tactics in fundraising for nonprofit clients.
Nonprofit Newswire | Can Nonprofit News Compete?
Can nonprofit, mostly online newspapers compete with the big, troubled print-focused dailies? In Chicago, the Chicago News Cooperative (CNC) is having no trouble.
Nonprofit Newswire | Charity’s Decisions Leave Some Cold
For the Muscular Dystrophy Association, it might not have been wise to cut a program that provides wheelchairs for people with MD in the same year that you increase the salary of the CEO by almost one third.
Nonprofit Newswire | Opinion on the Campaign Finance Opinion
The U.S. Supremes determined whether McCain-Feingold violated the free speech rights of corporate “persons,” the quaint notion that your local neighborhood multinational corporate behemoth is a person just like you and me.
Nonprofit Newswire | The US Supreme Court’s Bad, Bad Decision
“Congress cannot limit corporations, unions or any other organization from paying whatever they want to spread their respective political messages at election time.”
Nonprofit Newswire | Hospital Hopes Nonprofit Status a Life Raft
After covering the financial crisis that United Medical Center in Washington, D.C. finds itself in, the Post reported Sunday that the hospital is seeking a nonprofit charitable status to help stave off certain ruin.
Nonprofit Newswire | Betting on Death Risky for Nonprofits
Betting on your own death or the death of others to generate revenue is not only macabre—it’s highly risky too.
The Rooney Rule: NFL’s Race Problem
It is embarrassing for the nonprofit sector to remain silent about the NFL’s sham policy known as the “Rooney Rule” that requires teams to interview at least one person of color before they can then proceed to hire the white man they intended to hire all along. This is an issue for nonprofits—because behind the entertainment of the games, the National Football League is a big time, very wealthy, high powered tax exempt organization.