As a father of two, I catch my fair share of children’s television, which in my house comes from three sources: Nick Jr., the Disney Channel, and PBS. The younger one doesn’t get to watch just yet, but the older one has had a few years of viewing under her belt. My wife and I […]
Not having to answer to Wall Street’s all-too-often unreasonable expectations can be a powerful incentive for an organization to shed its for-profit status. I suspect that is what’s behind a Connecticut biotech industry group’s decision to create a nonprofit arm dedicated to developing pharmaceuticals for Third World countries.
New Haven-based CURE has quietly spun off a […]
MITRE’s inclusion on Fortune’s 2008 list of the 100 best companies to work for marked the seventh consecutive year the nonprofit R&D organization has been so honored. The secret to its success? Keeping its ears open.
“We listen to our employees,” Bill Albright, MITRE’s director of quality of work life and benefits, tells the 501(c) Files. […]
I have nothing against attractive women striking provocative poses while wearing bikinis — nothing at all — but for the Miss America Organization to try to maintain the relevance of its annual pageant by bathing it in a risque light strikes me as distasteful at best and harmful at worst. Miss Michigan won the crown […]
On Friday the Nonprofit Center at La Salle University brought together a handful of funders for a panel discussion of tips and trends. Representatives of dozens of nonprofits packed a meeting room in the basement of PECO Energy’s Center City Philadelphia headquarters to listen in, and the Center was kind enough to grant me a […]
Politicians, as I noted recently, will say nearly anything to secure your vote, so it’s best to take any and all public pronouncements as little more than campaign chatter. For a painful case in point, see today’s New York Times, where Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote that President Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address offered […]
The annual display of orgiastic excess and self-promotion that is the Super Bowl takes place next weekend. The New York Giants and New England Patriots will conclude two weeks of mindless hype, absurd media coverage, and countless beer commercials with an actual football game that will, unfortunately, be so immersed in consumption that the National […]
Fortune magazine’s annual list of best companies to work for is out, and, happily, several nonprofits appear on it. These include a number of health-care organizations (the Methodist Hospital System, OhioHealth, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Griffin Hospital, Vision Service Plan, Scripps Health, the Mayo Clinic, King’s Daughters Medical Center, Southern Ohio Medical Center, Arkansas Children’s […]
The state government of Ohio is the latest to begin exploring whether nonprofits should be taxed. Unlike efforts in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and in Indiana, Ohio’s process is being driven by the executive branch, not the legislature, and it’s aimed at just one segment of the sector: hospitals.
Attorney General Marc Dann, a Democrat elected in […]
Sunday’s New York Times piggybacked on the recent announcement of Red Cross staff cuts with a commentary that laid the blame at the feet of donors, thanks to the huge increase in the practice of gift earmarking.
Relief organizations receive plenty of donations for a specific crisis, but can’t find the money to build wells to […]
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