James O’Keefe, one of the undercover “citizen” videographers who staged the renowned “pimp and prostitute sting” on ACORN, was arrested Monday in New Orleans with entering federal property under false pretenses to commit a felony.
Nonprofit Newswire | Philanthropy Journal in Hallowed Halls
A sector journal has moved to North Carolina State University’s Institute for Nonprofits.
Nonprofit Newswire | Disabilities and Disaster: A Win
The City of Oakland has settled a suit filed by Disability Rights Advocates.
Nonprofit Newswire | Child Care Funding and the Freeze
The Administration’s plans to freeze domestic spending while expanding child care subsidies is puzzling.
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.”