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NewsYou 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.

 

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

NewsThe 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.”

NewsSince 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.

 

NewsMichigan 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.

 

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

 

NewsFaced 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.

NewsChuck 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.

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

NewsWhat 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.

NewswireThe 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.

NewswireThe 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.

NewswireIt 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.

NewswireThe 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.

SimonRuth 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.

Wednesday night, Governor Snyder gave his second State of the State address. As he talked about how far Michigan has moved forward in 2011, and his Administration’s priorities for 2012, he continually came back to two key ideas: collaboration and innovation. Collaboration brings with it a sense of community, inclusion, and hope for the future. [...]
Going through my Twitter timeline after Christmas and before New Year’s Day, I found every single list imaginable for “year-in-review” or “what-to-expect in the coming year.” One that I actually read was #nonprofitresolutions that the Chronicles of Philanthropy was running, here is the link ow.ly/8e3O4. Two things struck me about this list: 1) the nonprofit [...]
This year for 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance MNA and its affiliates will be taking part in service projects on September 9, 2011. Although we know many are taking their own personal time to volunteer and remember, it is important to us as an organization to give back and remember in three distinct [...]
It is hard to believe, but on September 11, 2011, it will have been ten years since the attacks. I remember the events like it was yesterday… It was my senior year in high school, and I was in Mr. Christner’s Amercia in the World Today class. In the middle of our lesson someone popped [...]
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet What’s in a mission? That which we describe the work of a nonprofit by any other would “do good” just the same, right? Shakespeare might agree, but those in the sector know that [...]