organizational conflict
War of the Roses, Nonprofit Style
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In Oklahoma, a dispute between a public television station and its support foundation intensifies.
tangled relationships
Mount Ida College Closing Raises Questions about Potential Conflicts of Interest
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In the wake of the precipitous closing of a small nonprofit college in Massachusetts, a tangled web of relationships links the president, an elderly donor/lender, and various staff and board members.
tangled relationships
Conservative For-profit News Site Uses Nonprofit; Trump Uses Whole Setup
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A law professor at Fordham surmised, “The existence of this 501(c)(3) organization is to provide benefits to the for-profit company, and…that is not acceptable.”
Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Lesson in Culture from the Met (It’s Not What You Think)
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Sometimes, the effects of organizational culture on nonprofits are hard to talk about because sitting right in the middle of the mess is an undiscussable issue that recreates itself and drives good people out or underground.
Nonprofit Management
Largest Long-Term-Care Nonprofit Lays Off 100+ Employees: What’s Going On?
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Sudden financial crises in larger organizations make stakeholders go looking for cause. In this case, the internal view complicates the story that all the causes were external.
Board Governance
Boston Globe Finds Insider Baseball at Yawkey Foundation
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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.
Uncategorised
Anatomy of a Mega-Nonprofit Headed for Bankruptcy
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New York City is likely to be a source of deep information about what precedes nonprofit failure in the next little bit. The sources will include documents like this affidavit from FEGS.
Uncategorised
Death by Social Enterprise: The Case of the Missing $19 Million
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An eighty-year-old social service organization announced its closure in January, but what exactly brought it to its knees? A revenue scheme?