Socially conscientious businesses, and specifically buy-one-give-one companies, have made their way into a variety of industries.. A new model of the popular framework is aiming to give consumers the opportunity to buy one and give many.
Many nonprofits mistakenly think that their Form 990 return is less important than the audit. The board may give it a cursory look before signing off on it, but few look carefully at areas that might be seen as red flags to the IRS—never mind reporters and donors. As the IRS lets you know, your 990 is your most public-facing document, the one on which many will judge your organization. What are the most common red flags for reporters and regulators? What can you do to clarify your finances to donors in the place where they’re most likely to access your information?
The Boston Globe has a history of periodically putting local philanthropy under the microscope, too often finding an insider culture that is less than healthy. At the Yawkey Foundation, the “closed little club” culture appears persistent and longstanding.
Much of what has been done post-election in terms of organizing has been accomplished through self-organized but commonly informed networks. Will traditionally trained political activists be able to resist taking on organizational trappings too soon?
The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay is encouraging social enterprise as a revenue producer for nonprofits through sponsoring a second round of its Big Idea Grant competition.
Independent adoption center files for bankruptcy, leaving hundreds of clients without children. Has the “climate of adoption” changed in recent years?
It takes a lot for most nonprofits to turn down a grant that’s equal to half their annual budget, but if that grant is at all questionable, that is precisely when it should be turned down.
With union membership down to levels not seen since before the Great Depression, are wages and working conditions to be left solely to the beneficence of management? If not through the collective power of a union, how will the concerns of workers be heard?
We wanted to highlight this article we published online last week because we think it is a critically important precursor of what our environment will include as we organize to pursue social justice over the next four years.
In a victory for advocates, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reinstate the travel ban imposed by the Trump administration while the underlying case proceeds. Along the way, the panel had a few choice words in the ruling regarding the administration’s attitude about the judiciary.
According to a recent article, “data scientist” is one of the top three nonprofit jobs of the future. Skill sets such as data analysis rank high in importance, but so do data visualization and asking good questions that data can help answer.