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Transitions: Tides Honors Drummond Pike
San Francisco It speaks to the very core and character of an institution – and its founder – when an institution can really honor the contributions of its founder and director for 34 years with class,...
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Right Wingers Continue to Play “I Spy” to Terrorize Citizen Action
Little Rock These days it’s pretty clear that if you are going to run an activist nonprofit that might make waves someday and therefore unsettle conservative sailors on their good ship “Lollypop,”...
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Exploiting Interns for Profit and Not
New Orleans Turns out that Charlie Rose, the TV personality on PBS, was one of many outfits that used unpaid interns in place of wage-based staff to do the basics in putting together his TV show...
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Girl Scouts, Many Non-Profits, and Maybe Unions are Franchises
New Orleans Here’s one the lawyers did not catch for some of the fast and furious in the non-profit world who believe there is an escape hatch in a federation model or licensing that lets them have...
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Small Employers and Nonprofits Caught in Healthcare Bind
New Orleans Talking to small employers about the health care exchange has been a slog, and it doesn’t look like it will get that much easier soon. The numbers are also somewhat daunting in the...
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First They Come for the Nonprofits
On 21 July 2014, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered five prominent Russian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on the ‘Foreign Agents’ list. – See more at:...
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Comcast Tactics Increasingly Transparent
New Orleans We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it again, but Comcast’s strategy to win approval of its monopoly in cable with a merger with Times-Warner has become increasingly obvious as...
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Continued Global Oppression of Non-Profits
Mexico City This was another rough year for nonprofits in many countries around the world. Ever since the Organizers’ Forum visited Egypt, after the revolution, and we visited with the outstanding...
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Nonprofits May Be Able to Go Politically Wild Thanks to House Republicans
New Orleans The “law of unintended consequences” is not one that was passed by the US House of Representatives and its far right, ideological Republican majority, but it is certainly one that they...
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Whining of Charities is Unseemly
Gulfport The recently approved tax bill is an abomination without any doubt. It’s claims of reform are a poorly crafted mask for a transfer of wealth from virtually all of us over the coming years to...
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Stopping the Free Ride for Nonprofits on Property Taxes
New Orleans Talking recently about greater accountability for nonprofit hospitals with a health expert from Massachusetts, she kept bringing up PILOT programs and why they were important in funding...
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Bain Capital Marketing for Nonprofits and the Rich in Sheep’s Clothing
New Orleans The headline in the New York Times caught by eye, saying “The Pitfalls of Giving Big but Thinking Small” with a subtitle that was even more interesting to me: “Donating Large Amounts to...
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Decolonizing Wealth Against the Odds
Edgar VillanuevaPhoto by Naomi Ishisakahttps://naomiishisaka.smugmug.com/Events/Cultural/Decolonizing-Wealth/ New Orleans There was something strange about talking to Edgar Villanueva about his...
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Related Party Transactions Tripping Up the NRA
New Orleans When it comes to full on violence, the NRA is not “Game of Thornes” or “Barry.” The National Rifle Association (NRA) likes its guns, but tends to be more of a “throw the rock and...
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Why is it so Hard to Talk about Organizational Structure?
Milwaukee Amani United, like a butterfly trying to emerge from a cocoon, is an embryonic organization attempting to emerge from its status as a project of a larger organization into a membership,...
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More Greenwashing by the Rich
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08182019.mp3 New Orleans Cases continue to mount, marching forward on an almost daily basis, where we watch the rich attempt to greenwash...
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Tax-Exemptions
Pearl River Paying attention to President Trump’s tweets is a fool’s errand, best delegated to journalists paid for the practice. These are “thought bombs” sometimes disguised as policy or...
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