Patient-assistance charities have long been scrutinized for their close ties to pharmaceutical companies and those companies’ business models. This one had the distinction of being the first to be stripped of government approval, but did that mean it had to precipitously cut people off from the system it played a part in creating?
Has the United States been fully converted into a banana republic? Making tax law changes retroactive in a bill passed at three in the morning? You can’t make this up.
Relationships matter not just in fundraising, but in advocacy, as this successful case of nonprofits organizing to retain public dollars in Westchester, New York, reveals.
A nonprofit called Green Veterans will, if all goes as planned, take over the mission and facility of the now-defunct Growing Power, a nationally celebrated urban farming program in Milwaukee that recently failed financially as its founder left.
Jeff Bezos is now the richest man in the world, but his formal philanthropy has always been restrained. Still, that does not mean his civic interests aren’t active and coherent, as this latest grant may indicate.
When nonprofit structures are used as pawns, the public is not served well and the overall health of the nonprofit sector is harmed.
What does it mean when the courts keep revisiting the same laws over and over again? Each time they do, a slightly new interpretation of that law becomes “the law of the land,” which seems to mean that no law can ever be considered “settled.”
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Buffalo, where the Erie Canal met the Great Lakes, was once one of the wealthiest cities in the US, but later fell on hard times. Now, the city is rebounding, but will long-time residents benefit? Community-based nonprofits are organizing residents to make sure that they do.
While smaller organizations have always made use of fluid roles, the use of the practice by larger nonprofits and companies appears to increase good outcomes both for the organization and the employee.
When are reparations required? The University of Chicago’s official history dates its founding to 1890. But activists claim that the university has ignored an earlier campus founded in part with slave money that operated from the 1850s until the 1880s and from whom some of the original donor and faculty base of the campus derived.
As a result of nonprofit health insurers and some hospitals being sold to for-profits over past decades, health legacy foundations, today with $27.5 billion in assets, have become important players in addressing the economic, environmental and social drivers of poor health outcomes.