There’s a great discussion happening over at Gift Hub about whether philanthropic leaders should blog. Blogger Phil Cubeta, a financial services exec who directs his company’s charitable efforts and who calls himself a “morals tutor to America’s wealthiest families,” offers 24 reasons, some of them serious, some of them not, against such public commentary, and […]
Nonprofits are human endeavors, and as noble as are the intentions of those who found them and work for them, malfeasance will happen. Even within those confines, it’s still striking that a nonprofit that assesses the effectiveness of charities based on, among other criteria, their transparency would itself be stung by the willful obfuscation of […]
A persuasive piece in yesterday’s New York Times argued that because so many of their long-term goals, unlike those of the for-profit sector, are difficult to quantify, nonprofits should not be held accountable to the same standards as their corporate brethren. Columnist Denise Caruso detailed the backlash among nonprofits against the notion “that the return […]
Maybe it’s the former PR guy in me, but even as the fallout from the Red Cross’s cashiering of CEO Mark Everson becomes more sordid, I find some very positive stuff for the organization to hang its hat on. As the NonProfit Times reported recently, not only did the married Everson have an affair with […]
Ever helpful when not being painfully hip, the folks at New York magazine last week chatted up Laurie Styron, an analyst at the American Institute of Philanthropy, for some tips to help New Yorkers find charities that get the most bang for their buck. Her advice: See the Institute’s list of top-rated charities and avoid […]
Corporate malfeasance may have been the impetus for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, but the nonprofit community was paying attention, too. According to Grant Thornton LLP’s fifth annual National Board Governance Survey for Not-for-Profit Organizations, 87 percent of nonprofits have implemented new governance policies, up from 20 percent just four years ago.
Some notable board […]
Guess which nonprofit-related stories are real and which are satirical:
Nonprofits prefer not to air their dirty laundry in public
Hospitals treat well-heeled potential donors better than they do other patients
Mel Brooks launches nonprofit to save the word “schmuck”
Has it been a slow news week already? Oy.
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And so the existence of GreatNonprofits, “a place to find, review, and talk about great — and perhaps also not so great — nonprofits,” described by its founder as “an online ‘Zagat,’ if you will, […]
Governments are still trying to figure out whether and how to tax online sales, but in the meantime a trade group representing e-sellers has gained nonprofit status from the Internal Revenue Service:
An organization of eBay and online sellers announced it has received notification from the IRS of its approval of the organization as a 501(c)(6) […]
As I’ve noted before, nonprofits generally are held to a higher ethical standard than their for-profit brethren. Even the appearance of impropriety is enough to cause damage. And so the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector’s release of Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice: A Guide for Charities and Foundations, a collection of 33 practices […]
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