Profile in Resilience: Community Action Agencies in the Midst of Budget...
September 23, 2015; Al Jazeera America To rely on the mainstream press coverage of the anti-poverty sector of nonprofits, one might reasonably think that there is none, that the War on Poverty and...
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Dubious Veterans Charities a Pervasive Problem Nationwide
September 12, 2015; Orlando Sentinel Florida businessman Neil “Paul” Paulson’s campaign to replace Buddy Dyer as mayor of Orlando, Florida serves as yet another example, available almost daily, of how...
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Pope Francis Recalls an American Icon—Dorothy Day, the Founder of the...
"Dorothy Day 1934" by New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons. September 24, 2015; TIME In his speech before Congress, Pope Francis repeatedly cited...
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Kickstarter Becomes a Public Benefit Corporation, So What?
September 22, 2015; Silicon Angle The crowdfunding platform called Kickstarter is now a public benefit corporation. That means that Kickstarter has a new corporate charter that incorporates specific...
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Pope Francis’s Words Seriously Fail to Assuage Victims of Clergy Sexual Abuse
mikedotta / Shutterstock.com September 23, 2015; Washington Post A very controversial part of the Pope’s visit to the U.S. involved his statements about the Catholic Church’s long-running clergy sex...
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Bank Redlining on the Upswing: Old and New Challenges for Nonprofits
September 2015; Center for Responsible Lending Mortgage lending is getting a tiny bit better for blacks and Latinos in the U.S., but it is still true across the nation that persons of color are...
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Redlining as a Product of the Racist/Classist Pseudoscience of Eugenics
Image Credit: Andrew Kuchling Between 1929 and 1974, according to the Associated Press, 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized in a state-sponsored eugenics program. The victims of this governmental...
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Research about Doctors Soliciting Donations from their Cancer Patients
Kriengsak Talek / Shutterstock.com September 29, 2015; Cancer Therapy Advisor This one is a new issue to us, but perhaps NPQ Newswire readers were already aware of this practice. An article in the...
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Looking for Nonprofit Leaders among MacArthur Geniuses
By David Shankbone (Shankbone) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsSeptember 29, 2015; Chicago Tribune The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 24 winners of the MacArthur Fellows...
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The Philanthropy of a Corporate Cheat: Volkswagen
Image Credit: Alison Robinson The scandal of Volkswagen, the German automaker, and its intentional marketing of diesel cars with fraudulent pollution measuring and monitoring software meant to...
View ArticleArizona Medicaid Waiver Proposal Wages War on the Poor
September 30, 2015; Stateline Arizona governor Jan Brewer was one of the very few Republican governors in southern or western states to go along with the Affordable Care Act option of expanding income...
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Ted Leonsis’s Charitable Giving Part of Quid Pro Quo on New Arena in DC
"Ted Leonsis, John Wall and Flip Saunders" by Keith Allison - originally posted to Flickr as Ted Leonsis, John Wall and Flip Saunders. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons. September 24, 2015;...
View ArticleThe Anti-BDS Effort of Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban Gets Caught in Partisan...
September 30, 2015; Forward Nathan Guttman reports for the Forward that the alliance between Republican political financier and Nevada gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson and Democratic donor and...
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Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and Business in Iraq
JStone / Shutterstock.com September 30, 2015; International Business Times David Sirota and Andrew Perez write for the International Business Times that in the years between her 2002 Senate vote to...
View ArticleBen Carson Doubles Down on Islam, Calls for End to CAIR Tax-Exempt Status
September 29, 2015; Fox News The presidential campaign is increasingly veering into nonprofit territory. First, there was the issue of connections between Hillary Clinton and donors to the Clinton...
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Famed Detroit Civil Rights Activist Grace Lee Boggs Dies at 100
Grace Lee Boggs autographs her book / Gary Stevens October 5, 2015; NBC News Amidst all the PR firm hype that elevates some in the nonprofit sector to unwarranted fame, there are some real heroines and...
View ArticleRacial Identity Controversy at Dartmouth’s Native American Program
October 5, 2015; Wall Street Journal When people of color “choose” to be white, odds are it is difficult to pull off. For whites, it seems that there is a choice, a stylish choice for some, of opting...
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The NCRP Debate on Market Approaches to Education Reform
Image Credit: Loreen Liberty At first glance, it would have been reasonable to ask why the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy would want to host a debate between advocates and opponents of...
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Chicago Now: Out of Control Gun Violence and an Out of Control Deficit
Damen & Concord, Wicker Park, Chicago / Richie Diesterheft October 2–8, 2015; Chicago News These aren’t pleasant times in Chicago. The truly horrible news is that this past September was Chicago’s...
View ArticleRetiring Chicago Principal Takes On Charter Schools, Teacher Layoffs, and...
October 7, 2015; Chicago Reader The essence of an effective civil society in the U.S. is so much more than people working in 501(c)(3) organizations. It also takes individuals of courage willing to...
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