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Dear Nonprofiteer, Isn’t Oprah omnipotent?

Dear Nonprofiteer, I’m wondering if you saw the Chicago Tribune story last week about the billboards erected by the organization SmileTrain to “solicit” Oprah Winfrey and what your reaction is. Since I...

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Hospitals get more in tax breaks than they give in charity care

according to Crain’s. The Nonprofiteer is always eager to trash the big corporate nonprofits, the hospitals and universities, while racing to the defense of the scrappy little social service, arts,...

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Dear Nonprofiteer, How do we keep it all in the family?

Dear Nonprofiteer, My wife and I started a small non-profit 3 years ago which has grown to have a budget of almost $200,000 per year.  When we started the organization she was made the Executive...

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Dear Nonprofiteer, If an Executive Director puts her hand in the cookie jar...

Dear Nonprofiteer, The quick and dirty is this: a local AIDS charity has an ED who facilitates a hostile environment. She fires people and then back-fills their employee record with negative things....

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Are you a tax-exempt charity? Sure about that?

While it’s not yet true that “Illinois Does A Few Adult Films To Make Ends Meet”, the state has begun to cast lascivious glances at its nonprofits.  Those property-tax exemptions look mighty...

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An appraising stare down the gift horse’s gullet

Jane Mayer’s excellent piece in this past week’s New Yorker about the brothers Koch, oil billionaires who’ve donated hundreds of millions to nonprofits promoting right-wing causes, finally clarified...

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On Wisconsin! Part II*

Boy, this guy is the gift that just keeps on giving:  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, not content to interfere with the provision of public services by destroying public-sector unions, has now decided...

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Beyond “Will not!”“Will so!”

Kudos to the Nonprofiteer’s nonprofit consulting colleagues Campbell and Co. for sponsoring a study by the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy to determine the impact on giving of increased...

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The Nonprofiteer has been wondering what to write about . . .

but she’d really have preferred not to have this as an inspiration.  There is no excuse for the decision of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, until now a respected source of information and funding in the...

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Give the people at Komen a piece of your mind . . .

as they seem to have lost their own.  Komen’s decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood at the behest of an anti-choice Board member reminds us how ready the right wing is to sacrifice women’s health for...

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