CauseEffectz

You may have seen flash mobs, but how about cash mobs? The groups are sprouting up across the U.S. and abroad to support popular small businesses with unexpected infusions of money.

The Chicago News Cooperative, a nonprofit journalism venture, will soon suspend operations, citing problems with funding and uncertainty about its tax status.

The IRS’ annual warning of the top 12 tax scams to look out for includes a brief tip on avoiding using charities to “improperly shield income or assets from taxation.”

Since becoming an NBA phenom, New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin has faced repeated racist remarks. Last week, it was Fox. This week, it was ESPN.

Michigan may serve as a case study—albeit an imperfect one—for the nonprofit sector as it explores what impact changes in tax incentives for charitable giving may have on the sector.

Conservative voices in Indiana are seeking to abolish new specialty license plates for the Indiana Youth Group, a gay support organization.

Faced with a sizable budget deficit, the city council in Tacoma, Wash. is considering a proposal to apply the city’s business tax to previously-exempt nonprofits.

Chuck Fluharty of the Rural Policy Research Institute urges the Senate Agricultural Committee and the nation’s foundations to address American philanthropy’s neglect of rural America.

Fifteen nonprofits from six countries have been granted the MacArthur Foundation’s 2012 Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, from Berkeley to Uganda.

What happens when a nonprofit club builds a property that belongs to the government and then wants to use that property in its fundraising? A Western Montana ski club just found out.

The recent backlash against Susan G. Komen for the Cure may make corporations more cautious about which nonprofit advocacy organizations they choose to affiliate with, some analysts say.

The Sarasota, Fla. Chapter of Girls Inc. is pushing a bill that would remove its obligation to return donations received from convicted Ponzi schemer Arthur “mini-Madoff” Nadel.

It seems there is nothing that the nonprofit San Diego Zoo can do to prevent zoo-advocate Newt Gingrich from morphing into political candidate Newt Gingrich during a zoo tour.

The inverted period style, a mainstay of journalistic writing, should also be common practice for those in development, even if it is the exact opposite of how many of us learned to write.

Ruth McCambridge sat down with Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, to discuss that organization’s role in shielding journalists. What we heard from Simon was not only a description of this brilliant collective effort of journalists to protect those in danger of imprisonment or death, but also a powerful discussion of the shifts occurring in journalism and in the ranks and vulnerabilities of those acting as journalists.