What exactly is a 501c3 organization?
What is a 501c3?
Feuding Nonprofit Leaders Threaten Future of Special-Needs Scholarship
While nonprofits are businesses, the competitive nature that helps companies thrive in the for-profit world can be a detriment to the very people the organizations set out to serve.
$1 Million Donation Tops off NYT’s Subscription Scholarship and News Literacy Program
Despite finding itself with “failing” as its new prefix, the august paper is actually flourishing. Its successes have allowed for the launch of a remarkable national program to reintroduce young people to the news.
City of Somerville Partners with Nonprofit to Train Residents in Immigration Advocacy
The city of Somerville, Massachusetts noticed a surge in social justice activism and decided to partner with a state nonprofit to empower its residents with immigration advocacy training.
Federal Support for Nonprofit Jewish Community Centers Struggling with Rash of Bomb Threats
Since January, Jewish organizations in more than 30 states have faced more than 100 bomb threats. To help deal with the increasing cost of security preparedness, beginning in 2002, the federal government has provided financial assistance to nonprofits.
Where’s LSC’s Funding? 150 Big Law Firms and 134 Nonprofits Want to Know
“It seems to be a signal,” said Jim Sandman, president of Legal Services Corporation. When the alarm was sounded among its partners, many high-powered law firms were already organized to respond.
Freedom’s Just Another Word for $14 a Day
Profiteers have always proliferated around desperate situations. It is not only private prisons eyeing the get-tough-on-immigrants environment as a market opportunity.
Growth Hacking for NGOs and Nonprofits: How a Few Staffers Can Mobilize Millions
When nonprofits mobilize, they often focus on breadth, gathering large numbers of supporters as a way to build power. On the other hand, nonprofits tend when organizing to invest deeply in nurturing volunteer leaders to ensure there are skilled, committed people in place to do the organization’s work.
On International Women’s Day/Day Without a Woman, Women Were Everywhere
This year’s International Women’s Day took new shape, as it was joined by a new effort to showcase what the world would look like without women in critical roles.
A Nonprofit News Source Gets Results Letting Facts Speak for Themselves
Magazine and nonprofit news source Mother Jones has seen a rapid rise in giving and in subscriptions over the past few months. These changes could have broader implications for the news industry and the nonprofit sector as a whole.
Another School, Another Major Donor, Another Awkward Situation
In yet another story of legal entanglements in major donations, a multimillion-dollar donation to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute may be clawed back by the ex-wife of a donor who says her former husband hid it during divorce proceedings. What to do?
Nonprofit College Endowments after the School Closes
In most cases of nonprofit dissolution, the state attorney general is the nonprofit’s ultimate arbiter and trustee. The AG must sign off on asset distribution and has standing to challenge any distribution that, in the AG’s opinion, harms the state’s citizens or denies them appropriate access to assets intended for a public purpose.