Scrutiny Leads Mo. Hospital to Curb Debt-Collection Suits
A nonprofit Missouri medical center that drew media and Congressional attention for suing thousands of low-income patients over unpaid bills has overhauled its financial-aid and collection practices, ProPublica and NPR report.
What to Do When Donor Values Clash With Your Mission
Your nonprofit wants to be inclusive. Your donors don’t. Can your relationship be saved?
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Socially Responsible Companies Are Big Draw for Workers, Study Says
The feeling was especially strong among millennials, with 64 percent saying they won’t work for a company that doesn’t have robust commitments to environmental or social causes.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Women Primed to Give Big — if Nonprofits Are Willing to Change
Women have the wealth and ambition to be a major force in philanthropy, but charities have to recognize and respond to big changes in the demographics of donors.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Corporate Support Goes Companywide
Companies such as Walmart and Citigroup are increasingly putting the entire heft of their organizations, not just the check-writing functions of their foundations, behind efforts to solve social problems.
By Alex Daniels and Peter Olsen-Phillips
Cash Giving From Businesses Edges Up, Chronicle Survey Shows
Gilead Sciences, Walmart, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and ExxonMobil led the way, reflecting a strong presence throughout the list of financial institutions and drug companies.
By Alex Daniels and Peter Olsen-Phillips
How Nonprofits Can Strike a Deal With Corporate Partners
Kellogg’s and State Farm provide insights into what charities need to do to land deep-pocketed sponsors in the business world.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Why Companies Give to Nonprofits
Executives with Microsoft, Citi, PNC, and Walmart explain how and why specific nonprofits were chosen to receive millions of dollars in support.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Trump Blasts Media for Scrutiny of Giving to Veterans
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee offered details Tuesday on the disbursement of millions of dollars he raised for veterans charities at a campaign-trail event in January, while railing against the press for raising questions about the truth and timing of his philanthropic claims, The Washington Post reports.
Big Medical Charities See Yield From Biotech Investments
Groups like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust are becoming important sources of capital for fledgling firms working on new drugs and diagnostic tools and are seeing big profits on some investments, Reuters reports.
Survey Finds Pa. Charities Paid Dearly in State Budget Fight
Pennsylvania nonprofits shed hundreds of jobs and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to interest payments on bridge loans as a result of a budget impasse that blocked the flow of state money for six months last year, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
Aid Charity Swears Off E.U. Money to Protest Migrant Deal
Doctors Without Borders says it will refuse all future funding from the European Union in protest of the bloc’s pact with Turkey to take back migrants landing in the Greek islands, writes The Wall Street Journal.
New Health Networks Championed by Obama Denied Tax Exemption
The Internal Revenue Service turned down a bid for tax-exempt status by an accountable care organization, saying it did not serve an exclusively charitable purpose, creating a major hurdle for the new type of medical network promoted by the administration as part of its health-care reform, The New York Times writes.
27% of Groups Scored by Charity Navigator Will See Ratings Change
The watchdog is revising its system for evaluating charities’ financial health, adding new criteria and changing others.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Charity Navigator Unveils Changes in Rating System
The watchdog group will switch Wednesday to a new set of measurements that tweaks how it assesses the financial health of more than 8,000 nonprofits, including changes in how it weighs overhead costs, The New York Times reports.
Drug Firms Subpoenaed in Review of Ties to Co-Pay Charities
Federal investigators’ demands for documents from Biogen, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, and Gilead Sciences come amid a widening inquiry into the pharmaceutical industry’s relationship with nonprofits that take donations from the companies to help patients pay for medications, Bloomberg reports.