National Volunteer Week begins Monday, and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, USA Freedom Corps, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington will gather in D.C. for a photo op and kick-off event. As is customary, organizers have gathered some star power to add […]
Assuming they haven’t pissed away their fortunes on Cristal and Hummers — a big assumption, I grant you — elite athletes retire with very healthy bank accounts. Some continue amassing wealth through TV gigs, personal appearances, and marketing jobs that embody the word "cushy"; others have nobler pursuits. The former Phoenix Suns star Kevin Johnson, […]
A pair of stories that broke recently offer some lessons for nonprofits on how to deal with bad news that becomes public.
In New York, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation not only cashiered a couple of employees when an internal audit revealed that hundreds of thousands of dollars was missing, it also asked the Manhattan district […]
Carolyn Kellogg, who writes at the Los Angeles Times blog Jacket Copy, noted yesterday that the gang-truce nonprofit cited by fraudulent memoirist Margaret B. Jones (née Seltzer) as her means of remaining linked to the ‘hood where she didn’t grow up may — brace yourself – not exist:
… [W]ho talks to the little kids? The author […]
Poor Michael Bloomberg.
With less than two years left in his final term and billions of dollars in his bank account, New York’s mayor would seem poised to execute “his oft-stated plan to pursue a full-time career in philanthropy,” as the New York Times put it Sunday. “… If he were to pour much of his […]
A self-professed “reasonably successful, designer, businessman, parent, and philanthropist but … frustrated activist,” Kenneth Cole today went public with the AWEARNESS Blog, “the perfect venue for personal expression and for encouraging genuine change.” Cole — or his ghostwriter — is posting himself, but he’s also enlisted about a dozen writers, photographers, and filmmakers, and one […]
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 […]
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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A nonprofit effort with an intimate connection to a specific person can run into trouble once that person passes on, as a couple of recent news stories illustrate.
The Aspen Times reported yesterday that the Windstar Foundation, cofounded in 1976 by John Denver, is only now back on its feet — and just barely at that […]
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