“It’s grotesque,” said Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women in New York City and a commissioner on the city’s Commission for Gender Equity, in describing this fundraising event.
Activists in New York City staged a die-in at the Guggenheim and marched to the Metropolitan to encourage both museums to disavow the Sackler family, multimillion-dollar donors, for their role in exacerbating the opioid crisis.
In Oklahoma, a dispute between a public television station and its support foundation intensifies.
The power of consumers coming together has shown enough of a motivating force to sway corporate decisions, but the nonprofit sector maintains its position as the key value-driven industry.
We all know that when leadership changes suddenly, a nonprofit may lose donor support. This story from a University of Nevada, Las Vegas foundation, in which a $14-million donation was revoked, provides one illustrative example.
Twin brothers Thomas and Timothy Pearson cared enough about peace to pledge $100 million to the University of Chicago to study conflict resolution, but the relationship soured and the donors want their cash back. This case is reminiscent of the historic Robertson suit against Princeton where the baby was eventually split.
The Form 990 information released by Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute discloses more than its own financial activities. It also points to gifts from a Georgia community foundation’s donor-advised fund, forcing the foundation to explain its own due diligence and gift reporting.
When nonprofits—or, in this case, governments—embark on a capital campaign, they must consider the potential to alienate donors by using their money without full assurances that the promised project has a reasonable chance of making it to fruition.
RENEWAL NOTICE may get the fundraising envelope opened, but are short-term gains more valuable to long-term donor trust and retention?
The Wounded Warrior Project is not going to be left alone to try to rebuild so long as it is still unclear to others that they know what ails them. Senator Grassley seems to be zeroing in, as is appropriate.
