Public support of higher education is a laudable use of tax dollars. It funds much-needed education for those who would otherwise be unable to afford it, thus training our workforce and keeping us competitive, and it helps to advance knowledge in such critical fields as biomedicine and engineering, thus improving our lives.
The University of Washington’s […]
Last week New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made big headlines with a speech in Los Angeles that served, according to the Associated Press, as “a scorching assessment of Washington” with respect to its spending practices. “In remarks clearly aimed at a national audience,” wrote AP’s Michael R. Blood, “the mayor said politics trumps common sense […]
An Indiana legislator’s proposal to, in effect, tax nonprofits gets the bum’s rush from Indianapolis Business Journal editorialists, who worry about the bureaucratic burden that would result. They also observe that while the state has its share of deep-pocketed 501(c) organizations, there are many, many more that would be hurt seriously by even the tiniest […]
Give Laura Otten this: When the director of the Nonprofit Center at La Salle University enters the blogging pool, she does it with a splash-inducing cannonball, not a wussy little dip of her toe. Otten kicks off her new blog, Nonprofit University, with a really intriguing post about why people give.
University of Colorado Professor Thomas […]
Now that Google has jumped into the philanthropic pool, don’t expect the wildly innovative and ubiquitous online empire to be a passive donor. Google.org, the company’s two-year-old philanthropic division, announced its first grants yesterday, pledging $25 million in the five areas it has chosen to fund:
The development of renewable energy that is cheaper that electricity […]
Many people at the nonprofit where I worked for 10 years in two separate stints shuddered when they heard the word “branding,” as immersed as it is in corporate marketing projects. Yet nonprofits face the same challenge as businesses do: an increasingly crowded marketplace filled with consumers who are overcommitted and underfocused. Cutting through the […]
The state of Indiana has joined Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in considering legislation that would impose tax-like fees on nonprofits:
Nonprofit groups that want to avoid the “payment in lieu of tax,” or PILOT, would have to show the state they truly serve a charitable purpose, defined as providing “relief from human want.”
The new payment would be […]
Do foundations better support nonprofits by funding general operating expenses instead of specific projects, as a New York Times piece suggested last week? No way, responds a foundation executive in a letter to the Times yesterday:
… [O]ur supporters rightfully expect that their donations are directed to programs that our mission specifies. If we were to […]
Bonuses are, like company cars, corner offices, and a key to the executive washroom, perks typically associated with the corporate world. But according to the Las Vegas Sun, if the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, can complete successfully its seven-year, $500 million fundraising campaign, a pair of university officials will walk away with a nice […]
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Give and Take blog this week linked to Charity Governance’s disapproving view of nonprofit/for-profit partnerships in the wake of the Intel/One Laptop Per Child breakup and asked, “Are corporate partnerships effective for charities?” Here’s what CG blogger Jack Siegel had to say:
… [M]any of these innovative partnerships […]
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