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Talking About Taxes
As we march toward the fiscal cliff, everyone knows that tax reform is on the table in negotiations between President Obama, the Democratic Senate, and the Republican House of Representatives. For a...
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Nonprofit Movie Theater Alters Business Model to Include Memberships
NPQ believes that all nonprofits should be watching to see how the experiments with one another’s business models are working out. That’s why we’re watching the Hollywood Theater in Dormont, Pa., and...
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New York AG Sues Former Head of NARAL for Misuse of Donor Dollars
The former president of NARAL Pro-Choice New York allegedly misused $250,000 worth of NARAL money “for personal travel, a nanny, dining expenses, shopping sprees at Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman, and...
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Regional Hospital May be Targeted for a Higher PILOT Contribution as Large...
Now that the South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass., is being eyed by Partners Health Care for purchase, town officials are looking at whether the hospital’s voluntary tax contribution should be...
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Reflections on the Decision to Sell Our Building
The board and staff of a program serving adults with disabilities recently asked themselves if they really needed the building and grounds that had served the organization so well in the past. Sylvia...
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Giving USA 2012 Indicates Long, Slow, Uphill Slog…If We Are Lucky
"For many that rely on philanthropy...this is not just a tough year. This is going to be a tough era." —Patrick Rooney, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
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Judge Blasts Ky. Mental Health Program with Large Reserves
NorthKey, a mental health provider that was recently defunded by two counties after beefing up its reserves while cutting services, is further taken to task for allegedly creating barriers to services.
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Second Mile Plans to Close and Transfer Funds
The Second Mile Foundation, marred by alleged scandal, intends to disband and transfer approximately $2 million to the Houston, Texas-based Arrow Child and Family Ministries.
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Amid Charges of Scandal and Falling Funding, How Can This Nonprofit Recover?
How should a nonprofit strategically prepare for budget cuts and the lingering damage of an alleged scandal? The Greater Lawrence Community Action Council is about to find out.
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Better Markets: “Occupy Wall Street’s Suit-Wearing Cousin?”
The nonprofit Better Markets aims to make sure our financial system “never needs a taxpayer bailout or threatens to plunge our economy into chaos again.”
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Ky. Program Defunded for Having Too Much in Reserves
Two Kentucky counties voted to eliminate funding for NorthKey Community Care for the upcoming fiscal year, with some saying the organization held too much in cash reserves.
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Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream
It’s time to put the taboo subject of public ownership back on the progressive agenda. It is the only way to solve some of the most serious problems facing the nation.
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Not Enough Pain, Not Enough Gain
VOICES FROM THE FIELD Steve Boland of the Nonprofits Assistance Fund finds that cutting expenses deep enough to realize a gain is a level of pain most nonprofit organizations will do anything to avoid.
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For-Profit/Nonprofit Culture Clash: An Overused Scapegoat?
In searching for the explanation behind Blue Cross Blue Shield’s dismissal of a recent CEO, a Star Tribune columnist assumes that the fault lies in a for-profit/nonprofit “culture clash.” Maybe not.
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Philanthropist Associated with Rockefeller, Gates Foundation Sentenced
Despite his mercy-for-the-charitable defense, Rajat Gupta was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $5 million for insider trading from his perch at Goldman Sachs.
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Shining Sunlight on the Dirty Laundering of Campaign Dollars
A new analysis by the Sunlight Foundation and ProPublica highlights how the current system of campaign finance, brought to us in part by Citizens United, results in “dead end disclosure.”
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like? The $2 Billion+ Election
Neither of the main presidential candidates has said (in the case of Romney) or done (in the case of Obama) much about campaign finance. Meanwhile, the campaign spending orgy roars on.
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Pay-for-Performance Contracts
Third Sector offers a helpful list of “do’s and don’ts” for nonprofits considering entering into pay-for-performance (or, in the U.K., payment-by-results) contracts with government.
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After Sandy, a Different Kind of “Storm Chaser”
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offer some tips to make sure that you’re not a scam victim in the wake of a natural disaster.
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Alleged Broadway Scam Holds Lessons for Leaders
A report from FBI Special Agent Thomas McDonald on an incident that sounds like a variant of The Producers is a fascinating read with lots of potential lessons for nonprofits.
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