New Hospital Guidelines Call For Private Rooms
New guidelines for hospital design, published by the nonprofit Facilities Guidelines Institute and the American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Health, are due out next month and will for the first time require new hospitals to guarantee that all patients can have their own…
Eleven representatives of major donors and foundations concluded a four-day visit to Beirut Tuesday, during which they met with local leaders to see what groups and projects they might want to finance, reports The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon. The visiting donors are members of the Global…
Exxon Financed Watchdog Group That Sought Greenpeace Audit
Exxon financed group that asked IRS to audit Greenpeace
The bank accounts of the Open Russia Foundation, led by Russian businessman Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, were frozen by Russian authorities last Friday, reports The New York Times. The $11-million group then announced that it would halt its work promoting civil liberties. The move follows a crackdown…
Conservative Coalition Tests Limits of Church Politicking Rules
Following on the heels of an Internal Revenue Service announcement that it would crack down on church politicking rules this year, a coalition of nonprofit conservative groups plans to hold training sessions to enlist pastors in Pennsylvania to encourage their congregations to vote in the upcoming…
Sue J. Linehan, the head of Rainbow R.P., in St. Paul, Minn., has been accused of stealing money from clients of the charity, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Rainbow is a charity that was set up to take government aid checks from clients and then use the funds to pay the clients’ bills. Ms.…
Congress Mulls New Rules for Nonprofit Hospitals
Members of Congress say nonprofit hospitals could face new rules
Couple Arrested for Cell-Phone Charity Fraud
Oklahama couple charged with running $1-million charity scam