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 […]
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How does the competition for donors affect nonprofit behavior?
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 […]
Having ground the life out of mainstream journalism, Wall Street turns its attention to college papers.
How political corruption benefits nonprofits.
Back Bay budget problems? It’s all Harvard’s fault! And MIT’s, too!
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Talk about trickle-down economics. Providence Journal business columnist John Kostrzewa on Sunday argued that Rhode Island needs to give its wealthier citizens and corporate community tax breaks so that they’ll have more to give to the state’s nonprofits.
… [W]hile the number of nonprofits continues to grow in Rhode Island, the constraints are hampering their ability […]
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 recently posted fact sheet from the IRS outlines the “variety of tools at its disposal to make certain that tax-exempt organizations comply with federal law designed to ensure they are entitled to any tax exemption they may claim.” (Hat tip to the Nonprofit Law Prof Blog.)
Not everyone thinks that nonprofit journalism is such a […]
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