Over the past five years, a nonprofit advocacy group has been organizing
progressive veterans, whose voices are often left unheard in many veterans’
groups.
Tribune Publishing is being sold to a hedge fund for $630 million. But as part
of that deal, the Baltimore Sun and other Maryland papers would become
nonprofit-owned.
Too often, those closest to the pain are farthest from the resources. Advocacy
can help close that gap. Here are six action steps to take to begin to do so.
In June, the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins reported that
1.64 million nonprofit jobs had been lost. To date, only 44 percent of those
jobs have returned.
What does transparency toward staff in the workplace look like? Three nonprofit
leaders share stories of their struggles and triumphs amid the COVID-19
pandemic.
As the traditional local commercial media business model collapses, an
increasing number of traditional news operations are seeking to convert to
nonprofit ownership.
Listening and respecting community mores is key, especially if the organization
does not share the background and/or experience of the population it seeks to
serve.
San Francisco’s public hospital was named for Zuckerberg and Chan, who gave it
$75 million. Protests ensued. Should public institutions be renamed this way?
Paycheck Protection Program support was easier to get in states where small
banks had more of the market. Keep this in mind as we head toward a second
round.
MacKenzie Scott, whose fortune flows from Amazon, recently surprised many small
nonprofits with outsized unrestricted grants—and there’s more where that came
from.
With the COVID-19 economy keeping nearly a million nonprofit workers off of
payroll, dreams of many to qualify for federal student loan forgiveness are also
deferred.
The AARP is now saying outright that private for-profit ownership of nursing
homes (as opposed to nonprofit) is a status that correlates with many more
infections and deaths.
Yet another major cultural institution in New York faces fallout from the
misdeeds of a major donor, one who’s also the high-profile chair of their board.
From PPP loans, to rapid program adaptation, to virtual fundraisers, new data
from the launch of the Financial Commons confirms that 2020 has been a year like
none other.
This organization found itself written out of the will of its founder and
benefactor when she died two years ago, and it is now preparing to close up
shop.
We asked our trusted friends at Fiscal Management Associates to answer the
burning nonprofit-specific Paycheck Protection Program questions on all of our
minds.