Large nonprofit hospitals are adopting the corporate tactic of courting investors in hope of more financing at better rates, leading to investor demands for more transparency.
Nonprofit Hospitals Acting Like Big Business by Wooing Bond Investors
Knight & Columbia Partner to Pioneer Digital Age 1st Amendment Institute
Just weeks after releasing a damning survey on the media’s ability to preserve the First Amendment, the Knight Foundation has taken a bold and prominent leadership role on the issue.
Learning Collaboration from a Small Water Project on the West Bank
A nonprofit’s interfaith collaboration to boost living standards is a small step toward healing in the Middle East.
Healing Arts Closes, But the Story is Likely Far from Done
This story has many unanswered questions, but we are watching it for a number of reasons. In the end, we want to make the world safer for whistleblowers, and this appears to be yet another story that combines a narcoleptic board with a powerful mission—and that is never good news.
An Even Wikier-NPQ
Lately, I have often found myself considering the question, “What would Rick say?”
Why I Want to Take Over the World with Shea Butter
Another Uncomfortable Conversation—Part I: Foundation Funding of Nonprofit Infrastructure
Is nonprofit “infrastructure” funding properly deployed, or is that funding overinvested in serving philanthropic groups? The conversation is uncomfortable—but necessary.
Is Facebook Manipulating the News?
What Facebook presents as trending news is a matter of choice, not algorithms, say former editorial workers who claim this often leaves conservatives out.
IRS Deems Nonprofit Racetrack and Casino a Commercial Enterprise, Strips Tax Exemption
Some may think the notion of a local racetrack and casino being a nonprofit is dubious—the IRS apparently did when they revoked its tax exemption last week—but let’s compare the salaries that sparked the investigation to, say, Harvard’s.
Will Arlington Cemetery Be Reopened to WWII Women Pilots?
It took congressional action to end the practice of banning Women Airforce Service Pilots from inurnment in Arlington National Cemetery—that is, if Obama signs the bill into law.
Did Evenly Split Supreme Court Promote Contraception Compromise?
As a result of the ruling, the cases will be sent back to the lower courts, where the federal government and the plaintiffs will hammer out the specifics.
Illinois Schools and Social Service Agencies Face 2nd Year without State Budget
Illinois has always been a poster child for late payments on its contracts with nonprofits, but as the state’s budget stalemate stretches into a second year, lines of credit, loans, and other survival mechanisms are fully in play.