After Losing a Key Grant, a Social-Service Charity Winds Down Carefully
Family Services of Metro Orlando worked out a plan with the state to play its closing costs.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
A Kindred Charity Acquires a Sinking Social-Service Group
A state budget crisis prompted a kindred charity to acquire a sinking social-service group.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
A Dance Group Finds a New Home for Its Mission
A children’s nonprofit is taking over a program that teaches dance in the schools and elsewhere.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Supreme Court Case Could Place Restrictions on Employment Decisions by Religious Groups
Religious groups are fighting to protect their right to decide which employees are covered by federal anti-bias rules.
By JACOB BERKMAN
Contributor
A Literacy Charity’s Transfer of Programs Unravels
The Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles transferred its services to another group, but it says the programs aren’t offered in the way it had hoped.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
How Entrepreneurs Blend Social and Business Goals
Inc. magazine explores the ways that charities and companies learn from each other as they seek to promote the social good.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
For Some Charities, Shutting Down Helps Protect Their Legacies
Instead of just hobbling along because of economic problems, some groups are devising creative ways to offer their cash and programs to kindred organizations.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Schwab Charitable’s Leader Seeks ‘Downtime’
Kimberly Wright-Violich, head of Schwab Charitable, in San Francisco, is stepping down from the job next month.
By MAUREEN WEST
Contributor
A Theater’s Ideals Cause It to Bring Down the Curtain
A theater decides to close rather than change its philosophy on choosing plays and paying employees decent wages.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Former State Official Takes Over Health Charity
Barbara A. DeBuono, New York’s former commissioner of health, is taking the top job at Orbis International, a charity that works to prevent blindness.
By nicole lewis
Contributor
Donors Need a Better Way to Rate Charities
The Three Cups of Tea scandal demonstrates the inadequacies of today’s charity-watchdog system.
By Saundra Schimmelpfennig
Contributor
Nonprofit Authors Take Notes From ‘Three Cups’ Scandal
Charities take varying approaches to deciding who gets the royalties when their executives write books. Wayne Pacelle, head of the Humane Society of the United States, for instance is splitting proceeds of his best-selling book with the charity.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Philadelphia Charity Lays Off 132 Employees
Liberty Resources, a Philadelphia charity that serves people with disabilities, has laid off 132 of its 3,600 employees, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Two Nonprofits Serving the Elderly Merge
Interages, in Wheaton, Md., will merge with the Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington, in Rockville, Md., writes the Gazette, a Maryland newspaper.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Meals-on-Wheels Group Merges With Violence Prevention Group
LifeCare Alliance, a Columbus, Ohio Meals-on-Wheels provider, is merging with Impact Safety, a Columbus violence prevention and safety skills charity, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Community Groups Merge in Pennsylvania
YorkCounts, a York, Pa., nonprofit that works to promote improve the quality of like in York, has merged with the York County Community Foundation, reports the York Daily Record.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor