Charity Watchdogs Scoff at Direct Marketers’ Self-Reporting Effort
The new “accountability dashboard” will include information like how many donors a group has acquired over the previous three years.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Public Allies Names Antipoverty Activist as New CEO
Adren Wilson will lead the organization, which trains young people for work in nonprofits or the public sector.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Big Political Nonprofits Omit Vendor Data From IRS Filings
Several of the most politically active 501(c)(4) “social welfare” groups on both the conservative and liberal sides apparently failed to report to the Internal Revenue Service millions of dollars in spending on independent contractors involved in campaign advertising blitzes, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
Federal Auditor Hits Relief Charity’s Confidentiality Rules
A U.S. inspector general said Thursday that International Relief and Development, which received hundreds of millions of tax dollars for reconstruction work in Afghanistan and Iraq with little government oversight, violated whistle-blower laws in requiring outgoing workers to sign strict confidentiality agreements, writes The Washington Post.
Report: Ex-Mass. College Head’s Spending Nearly Broke Foundation
A long-awaited Massachusetts state analysis of former Westfield State University president Evan S. Dobelle’s tenure accuses him of deliberately and repeatedly misusing the school’s funds and nearly bankrupting its nonprofit fundraising arm, writes The Boston Globe.
Ex-Execs at Homelessness Charity Charged With $350,000 Theft
Prosecutors allege two former officers at a nonprofit that runs nine Philadelphia homeless shelters charged travel, shopping sprees, and other personal luxuries to a charity credit card, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Fla. Art Donor Sues Museum Over Delays in Building New Wing
Months after Florida State University’s Ringling Museum of Art began construction of a new center for Asian art, it is facing the loss of the multimillion-dollar donation and art collection in 2006 that prompted the expansion, the Herald-Tribune of Sarasota writes.
Met Opera Extends Labor Negotiations as Contracts Expire
Metropolitan Opera management postponed a threatened lockout of employees Thursday night, granting a 72-hour window to continue contract talks at the request of a federal mediator, reports The New York Times.
In Philadelphia, a Recipe for Chicken Soup and Nonprofit Revenue
A nonprofit leader and local restaurateurs are collaborating on a hip, crowdfunded restaurant to make money to help the poor.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Jimmy Savile Charity Fighting Payout Plan for Abuse Victims
A charity associated with Jimmy Savile, the popular British TV personality exposed after his death as a serial child molester, is seeking to block a compensation scheme for his victims even though it would not be liable for any payments, The Independent and the BBC report.