Remember the Albuquerque nonprofit accused of partisan political advocacy by a trio of state legislators who lost their primary elections? Turns out the New Mexican government agrees with the ousted lawmakers:
An Albuquerque nonprofit group, accused by three legislators of skirting the state campaign finance law, must register as a political action committee, the secretary of […]
Connections and friends in the right places matter as much in the nonprofit sector as they do in corporate America and the government. Witness two recent instances of nonprofits running into serious trouble — and the very different results that happened to them.
In the first instance, reported by the New York Times, a friend of […]
Not everyone in Beijing right now is there to marvel at Michael Phelps. As MSNBC reported the other day, a healthy nonprofit enterprise has sprung up at the Games, with a plethora of Olympic pin collectors set up outside the Beijing Exhibition Center to obtain as many pins as they can through “barter, exchange and […]
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The notion among the general public that nonprofits should be able to operate successfully while maintaining absolutely bare-bones operations is not only annoying, says a California SPCA official, it is also dangerous. Writing in the Palm Springs Desert Sun, Fred Saunders offers a very cogent reason why:
These are misconceptions that hinder the growth of the […]
Here in the Philadelphia region, where I live, six of the area’s top 10 employers are nonprofits, and a staggering 27 percent of city employees work for nonprofits.
Great news for the sector, right?
Well, that depends on how well the sector’s doing here.
As the Philadelphia Inquirer reported yesterday, the Philadelphia Foundation “is commissioning a study to […]
The world’s most unlikely nonprofit, the National Football League, is blitzing against new IRS regulations that would require it and other NPs to reveal on their Form 990 filings the salaries of way more key personnel than it currently does. The NFL is asking Congress to allow it to keep secret the names of its […]
If you don’t think that donors pay attention to how your nonprofit spends the money they give, think again. Check out this piece in the Daily Times of Salisbury, Maryland, on the success Lower Eastern Shore charities have had in funneling an atypically large percentage of their donations to their mission-oriented activities:
With the growing impact […]
The last time Canada enacted legislation governing nonprofits, reports the Law Times, “Henry Ford’s Model T was still making inroads, coal was king, and business was a paper-intensive exercise.”
Federal and provincial governments in Canada are now considering bringing nonprofit law into the digital age, and not a moment too soon.
That change is needed is accepted […]
One organization’s nonpolitical activities is another’s completely political meddling, as a New Mexico nonprofit is discovering. The Center for Civic Policy earlier this year distributed a series of mailers regarding the voting records of some members of the state legislature, a handful of whom, after losing in the primary election, sued the group, saying its […]
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