Federal Innovation Fund Awards $46-Million in New Grants
A federal program aimed at helping innovative nonprofits is giving money to five new organizations.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
N.Y. State Panel to Examine Nonprofit Executive Pay
The State of New York will form a committee to investigate compensation for top officials at nonprofit organizations that receive government money, The New York Times says.
By ANDY MARKOWITZ
Contributor
S.C. Lawmakers Restore Culture Funds; Kansas Seeks Federal Arts Aid
With strong bipartisan support, South Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature rejected Gov. Nikki Haley’s bid to eliminate all state spending for the arts, The New York Times reports.
By ANDY MARKOWITZ
Contributor
Budget Deal Puts Pressure on Nonprofits to Advocate for Their Causes
This week’s debt accord signals a new era of competition for federal aid as lawmakers face new requirements to reduce spending.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Small Groups Get Smaller as State Culture Cuts Sink In
Small rural and minority arts organizations will feel the biggest bite from reductions in arts budgets enacted this year by 31 states, according to The New York Times.
By Andy Markowitz
Contributor
N.Y. Brothers Reap Medicaid Windfall Running Disabled-Care Group
New York state’s largest nonprofit network of homes for the developmentally disabled collected more than $1-billion from Medicaid in the past decade and paid salaries in the $1-million range to the two siblings who run the organization, The New York Times writes.
By Andy Markowitz
Contributor
School Vouchers Gather Strength in State Legislatures
State-level Republican electoral gains are fueling a resurgent push for a favored GOP policy–vouchers and tax breaks to help parents send their kids to private schools, according to the Associated Press.
By ANDY MARKOWITZ
Contributor
Charitable Deduction Not Touched in Debt-Ceiling Deal
Fund raisers who want to preserve the deduction could face continued challenges as Congress seeks to trim the deficit.
By Lisa Chiu
Contributor
Calif. Governor Blasts Pay for Incoming University Leader
Amid a public outcry over the $400,000 salary San Diego State University will pay its new president, California Gov. Jerry Brown criticized state university systems for profligate hiring practices, writes the Los Angeles Times.
By ANDY MARKOWITZ
Contributor
New Hampshire Medicaid Cuts Prompt Lawsuit by Hospitals
Ten New Hampshire hospitals are suing the state over cuts in Medicaid reimbursements the medical centers say threaten low-income residents’ access to care, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and New Hampshire Public Radio report.
By ANDY MARKOWITZ
Contributor
Critics Question Nonprofits’ Role in N.Y. Home-Care Overhaul
Executives of two of New York biggest nonprofit providers of long-term health-care will lead the team drawing up an overhaul of the state’s home-care system, raising questions and criticism from advocates for patients and commercial industry players, reports The Wall Street Journal.
By ANDY MARKOWITZ
Contributor
Education Program Gets Mixed Score on Innovation
Investing in Innovation, an ambitious new federal grant program, was praised for its work to promote proven ideas but said to focus too much on the “usual suspects.”
By Patrick Lester
Contributor
Governor’s Appointees Now Control Kansas Arts Panel
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback appointed six new members to the state Arts Commission that he previously attempted to scuttle, the Associated Press writes.
By ANDY MARKOWITZ
Contributor
Minn. Budget Puts Squeeze on Nonprofit Health Plans
Minnesota’s new two-year budget cuts or delays $435-million in payments to nonprofit health plans that manage subsidized care for a half-million low-income residents, reports the Associated Press.
By ANDY MARKOWITZ
Contributor
Federal Leader on Nonprofit Issues Tallies Accomplishments
Sonal Shah, the head of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, says her unit has helped effective nonprofits grow.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Oregon Kills Bill to Regulate Charity Overhead Spending
A measure that would have denied donors deductions for gifts to groups that spend a lot on overhead will not be considered again until at least 2013.
By Lisa Chiu
Contributor