As part of an effort to increase manpower, volunteer firefighters in the Pennsylvania borough of Emmaus began getting part-time hourly pay in 1994. They receive W-2 tax forms at the end of the year for those paychecks with federal and state taxes deducted. At that point, are they still volunteers?
Cheryl Strange is very new in the role of CEO at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, the largest psychiatric hospital in the state of Washington. But because she has defied the court to keep a patient with dementia on the waiting list for admission rather than admit him out of order of need or place on the wait list, she may be facing jail time.
Victims of Japan’s sexual slavery during World War II launched a private foundation last week in an act of defiance against the landmark deal struck between Japan and South Korea.
The World Health Organization adds Thailand to its growing list of countries successfully reducing the number of HIV positive citizens. While other countries have achieved the targeted rate of mother-to-child transmission, disparities in access to care remain a challenge.
It may seem like looking a gift horse in the mouth, but a few recent incidents suggest that qualifying donors who are making as-yet-unsecured pledges is an increasingly important aspect of good fundraising practice.
The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) has rebuked Geraldine Cox, founder of Sunrise Cambodia, for the objectification and exploitation of the children in her care—in other words, for producing “poverty porn.”
Advance your career and tear down systems of oppression! TFA offers new recruits the moon.
A three-year fundraising campaign raised Mercersburg Academy’s endowment by 70 percent.
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court found that a state supreme court justice violated a defendant’s due process rights when he did not recuse himself from a case he had overseen as a district attorney thirty years prior.
New York City has partnered with the National Council for Behavioral Health for an initiative to make mental health first aid training available to communities. The goal over the next four years is to provide training to 250,000 people, starting with first responders.
Aging in America is going through a mission and services transformation to respond to market changes; it has divested itself of all but three employees and most of its other assets. Will its governance design and executive compensation also change?
On their 25th anniversary, charter schools educated 3 million children in 2016. The outcomes data are mixed, and governance trends may be heading away from public accountability.