ScaLast month, we profiled the gap between the Sacklers’ business (which makes and sells OxyContin) and their philanthropy (which largely fails to address public health). But there is a connection of sorts, as Jonathan Sackler applies drug marketing lessons to promote charter schools.
In an effort to show support for conservative talk show host Sean Hannity, enthusiastic Fox viewers are destroying their Keurig coffee makers, thus inadvertently supporting a green movement. It’s just so hard to keep track of causes these days!
As nonprofit journalism expands, new partnerships opportunities emerge, as this story in Milwaukee involving a nonprofit news service and Marquette journalism students illustrates.
Bail funds are by no means new, but their central importance to what is now an energetic “no cash bail” movement and their importance to those who now suffer the consequences of a system that punishes the poor extra harshly have combined to actually build a very robust national field.
Efforts to protect immigrants from deportation are bolstered by the Vera Institute for Justice SAFE Cities Network, providing 11 communities with matching funds for public defenders.
An audit of the University of Louisville Foundation found $42 million in unapproved and excessive spending over three years; the fired CFO sued, saying he is being made the “fall guy” and that others at the nonprofit are at fault.
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season reminds us of the very real material risks posed by a changing climate. The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure’s rules under development would require that investors be informed of these risks, increasing pressure on business to “go green.”
The Senate’s tax bill isn’t quite as unpalatable as the House bill, but it still spells bad news for nonprofits and the people they serve.
Republicans see Puerto Rico as a testing ground for democracy-free economic policies.
For a paper of record like the New York Times to humanize the oft-lamented disconnected youth and emphasize the value of treating them with respect is significant. To put the onus of reengaging these youths on the society that left them behind, rather than on their overburdened backs, marks a significant shift (or at least a helpful push) in the right direction, and we’re pleased to see it.
The House tax bill vitiates our nation’s already weak community economic development backbone, reducing access to affordable housing as well as the ability of nonprofits to support commercial development or finance infrastructure. The “savings” from the proposed cuts barely exceeds $5 billion a year—a drop in the bucket, given the bill’s overall $1.5-trillion price tag.
Although the national organization VietNow has been closed by the concerted action of 25 attorneys general, there are a number of other chapter organizations that have survived. Is that a problem?