Barack Obama’s comments about the supposed bitterness of small-town, impoverished Americans who he said cling to religion and firearms because they have nothing else left is by far his worst misstep during the presidential campaign. That speech has been dissected in countless ways, almost always with an eye toward its effect among voters. Given less […]
Close the windows, lock the doors, hold your kids’ ears, and package the candidates in bubble wrap: People are — gasp! — forming nonprofits to give their political views greater voice!
The horror!
Such is the breathless commentary from Paul Kiel at TPMMuckraker, an offshoot of the influential political blog Talking Points Memo, in a recent post […]
Certain nonprofits, observed Bridgette Rongitsch, have done a good job educating voters about the issues they deal with and motivating them to make their voices heard on Election Day. She cited environmental, choice, and GLBT groups as being proficient in this area.
Nonprofits working in the service sector, though, helping people with housing, low income and […]
No fooling: Next week, on April 1, the Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network will launch a national campaign to "provide training, information, legal resources, how-to guides, and materials such as bumper stickers and posters to help nonprofit groups get voters to the polls for the November elections," reported the Chronicle of Philanthropy earlier this week.
“Our belief […]
Having brought the hammer down on Wall Street, Eliot Spitzer should have been well aware of the dangers of the for-profit sector. Yet when it came time to betray both his marriage and the people of New York State, the governor didn’t have the good sense to go the nonprofit route. Instead, he paid money […]
And the 2008 DoGooderTV Video Awards go to …
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Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, a.k.a. Barack Obama’s mom: influenced by her work with nonprofits.
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Take a look at the advisers and directors of the nonprofit Foundation for Defense of Democracies and you’ll notice a lot of names with a similar political bent: Steve Forbes. Newt Gingrich. Jeane Kirkpatrick. Bill Kristol. Gary Bauer. Richard Perle. Charles Krauthammer. Even FDD’s Democrats — Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller — are known for […]
Nonprofits must take extraordinary care when they step into the political arena. As has been seen recently, the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t mess around when there’s a question of whether churches and charities have crossed the line and become “directly or indirectly involved in campaigns of political candidates.” That said, nonprofits need not be completely […]
A nonprofit Chicago film center’s concern about losing its tax-exempt status was enough to compel it to postpone its scheduled January screening of a documentary about Barack Obama’s 2006 trip to Africa. Now comes word that the IRS is investigating the United Church of Christ, of which Obama is a member, regarding the senator’s speech […]
Last week the New York Times published an incendiary piece that suggested Republican presidential candidate John McCain had had an affair with a lobbyist and had pulled strings on her behalf. Among a party faithful that places a premium on what are commonly called “family values,” the news could have been disastrous for the Arizona […]
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