charity ethics
Is Value Village/Savers the Trump Foundation of Second-Hand Stores?
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The expensive dresser you gave Value Village or Savers may bring two cents to charity—if you’re lucky.
Google.org’s Fellowship Program Doubles Down on Skilled Volunteering
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Among other projects, Google technologists will support Goodwill in defining a unified data strategy for its federated organization.
Goodwill
Thrift Stores Expand Despite Rising Economy: Is Planet Awareness the Reason?
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Sales at nonprofit thrift stores are notably more brisk, sparking an expansion in the field, but the larger market shift that appears to be at play is interesting in itself
Detroit
Detroit Goodwill to Expand Social Enterprises and Incubate Employee-Owned Businesses
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Nonprofit Goodwill chapter in Detroit decides that promoting dignity and independence in the workplace requires more than a job—and that making employees owners of their own companies is one strategy for achieving that broader goal.
Executive Transition
One More Step in Goodwill Omaha’s Long Post-Scandal Journey Home
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NPQ has been following Goodwill of Omaha’s recovery from scandal for just under a year. The agency is now turning another corner with the installation of a new CEO, but the process of righting itself with its community will go on for a while.
sheltered workshops
Times Change: One More Goodwill Phases Out its Sheltered Workshop
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The practice of nonprofits and for-profits paying workers with disabilities less than minimum wage, permitted by a 1938 law, is declining, but not fast enough.
Goodwill
A Redemption for Goodwill Omaha as Tax Status is Retained
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Goodwill Omaha was basically on probation in its community, needing to show improvement before it is released from public loss of confidence.
property tax exemptions
Business or Charity? An Update on Property Tax Exemptions Under Fire
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Are you acting like a nonprofit, or should we just take that property tax exemption away?
Goodwill
The Wages of Nonprofit “Sin”
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Goodwill Omaha’s executive salaries and other practices have led the Douglas County Assessor’s Office to consider denying property tax exemption to thrift stores.
Goodwill
Goodwill Omaha Continues to Recover from Public Scandal
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An ethical stitch in time could have saved Goodwill Omaha a good deal of time, money, and public trust.