Millions for New Stagings Yield Mixed Results for Met Opera
The Metropolitan Opera’s investment in new productions, a bone of contention among unions facing management proposals to steeply cut labor costs, has produced mixed success at the box office, according to The Wall Street Journal.
IRS Releases EZ Application for Charity Status
The federal agency says 70 percent of new nonprofits are likely to use the short form.
By Alex Daniels
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By PAUL VANDECARR
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Catholic Charities Leader to Step Down
Rev. Larry Snyder to take role at U. of St. Thomas.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
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N.C. Charter Network Has Deep Ties With Founder’s Businesses
The nonprofit Charter Day School group in southeastern North Carolina is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to lease buildings, furniture, and equipment from for-profit companies led by its founder, according to the Star News of Wilmington, N.C.
Shuttering Orchestra’s Head Says Recent Profits a ‘Fluke’
The executive director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra says the organization remains in dire financial straits and will close as planned after next season, despite ending two of the past three years in the black, the Green Bay Press-Gazette writes.
N.Y. Wins $25-Million in Fundraising Abuse Case
The sum the fundraising vendors Quadriga Art and Convergence Direct Marketing will pay to end an investigation is thought to be the largest ever paid over deceptive appeals.
By Suzanne Perry
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Robert Wood Johnson Reshapes Approach to Health Philanthropy
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation unveiled a major shift last week that will see the nation’s biggest health-centered philanthropy change focus from specific problems such as smoking and obesity to an ambitious effort to promote a “culture of health,” according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Watchdog Seeks Probe of Minn. Fund’s Booming Trustee Pay
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy is calling on Minnesota’s attorney general to investigate a St. Paul-based foundation where annual compensation for three trustees has increased nearly tenfold in the past decade to about $1.2-million, writes the Star-Tribune.
N.Y. Soup Kitchens Run Short on Food as Demand Grows
Food charities in New York are seeing greater demand, and more quickly running through their supplies, amid what nonprofit and city officials fear is a burgeoning hunger crisis, reports The New York Times.