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Effective May 15 2012
National Public Radio experiences decline in corporate support as L.A. Times gets Ford Grant.
Occupy movement demonstrators are gathering in Chicago to stage protests at this weekend’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit.
A federal court has ruled 501(c)(4)s engaged in “electioneering communications” must reveal their donors, but super PACs may have another loophole to avoid transparency.
While private giving to foreign development aid has grown rapidly, giving from government entities such as the U.S. Agency for International Development has been more sluggish.
Police brought the Occupy Abai encampment in Moscow’s Chistiye Prudi area to a quick close, but can Russian authorities put the genie of civil society back into its bottle?
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has released a plan to cap nonprofit executive compensation and administration costs, though the proposal allows some flexibility.
The Caterpillar Foundation has given a $3 million grant to get the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to make Peoria, Ill. its newest office addressing community development.
The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing on nonprofits Wednesday was largely a humdrum affair, but for about five minutes, the discussion turned electric.
Larry David releases his first tweet: “I was told by Charity Bribes that if I Tweeted they’d give 10k to the NRDC. Pay up!” Now, will other celebrities play along?
Lawyers representing Rajat Gupta, who will be on trial next week for alleged insider trading, are hoping to present his philanthropic activities as part of his defense.
The Arkansas Community Foundation, in partnership with the Knight Foundation, had supported local reporters in the state, but now the grants have run out.
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers has treated officers well while membership has declined, the Kansas City Star reports.
Maha Freij, the founder of the Center for Arab American Philanthropy, discusses the importance and implications of philanthropy that is identified with specific ethnic and racial groups.
I wanted to make sure that you saw an article we posted online yesterday from the latest edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly journal. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how the demands of leadership may be changing.
Major institutions like YWCAs rarely go out of business, much less as precipitously as the shutdown of the YWCA of the Greater Triangle area. What can we learn from its closure?