Nearly 100 Nonprofit Colleges Flunk Federal Financial Exam
Ninety-four nonprofit institutions of higher learning failed to meet Education Department standards for financial health in the 2013-14 academic year, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Homelessness Among Veterans Drastically Reduced in Some Cities and Counties
Successes in more than 20 areas are due in large part to government partnerships with social-service groups that are cutting through bureaucratic barriers, The Boston Globe reports.
Judge OKs Shutdown of Disgraced Penn State Coach’s Charity
The ruling Thursday turns over to state authorities about $750,000 in assets from the Second Mile, the youth nonprofit founded by ex-Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky, Reuters and the Centre Daily Times report.
Lawmakers Again Take Up UConn Foundation Transparency
After rejecting a proposal last year to make the flagship state university’s nonprofit arm subject to open-records laws, Connecticut representatives are considering a new bill aimed at increasing the organization’s financial disclosure, the Hartford Courant writes.
China Set to Pass First Law Regulating Private Charities
The parliament is expected to adopt regulations this session that could give charities more freedom to operate and raise money but also allow for further restrictions on human-rights groups and foreign organizations, Reuters writes.
Policy Proposals and Giving: How Trump, Cruz, Clinton, and Sanders Compare
With the field of presidential candidates narrowing to four likely contenders, The Chronicle presents snapshots of their ideas on the charitable deduction and other notes of interest to nonprofits.
By Alex Daniels, Eden Stiffman and Megan O’Neil
Flint Whistleblower Teams With Charity to Expand Water Tests
Marc Edwards, the Virginia Tech professor who helped uncover the lead crisis in the Michigan city, is working with the nonprofit Healthy Babies Bright Futures to support water testing across the country, The Washington Post reports.
Florida Congresswoman Linked to Fraudulent Nonprofit
Representative Corrine Brown hosted a 2013 charity golf tournament that benefitted a supposed education charity whose leader pleaded guilty last week to fraud, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
Trump Has Donated $100 Million, Campaign Chief Says
Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told CNN Thursday that the campaign would provide “a full accounting” of the more than $100 million he said the billionaire businessman and Republican presidential frontrunner has given to charity over the years.
Federal Jobs Numbers Show Nonprofits Bucked Great Recession
While most industries downsized in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, nonprofits were staffing up, The Washington Post writes, citing new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2007 to 2012.
Fla. Activists Hit Mott Foundation for U.S. Sugar Ties
Environmental activists are targeting the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation over its ownership of the U.S. Sugar Corporation, which critics blame for environmental degradation in the Everglades, Broward Palm Beach New Times writes.
Okla. House OKs Bill to Restrict Humane Society Fundraising
State lawmakers approved a measure Tuesday that would ban animal-welfare groups from fundraising in the state for “political purposes” and from using money collected in Oklahoma outside the state, the Tulsa World reports.
More Democracies Taking Aim at Nonprofits, Campaign Group Says
Western and democratic countries are beginning to mirror authoritarian states in the developing world in seeking to rein in nonprofit advocacy groups that criticize government actions and policies, the leader of a global civil-society alliance tells the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Experts Question Tax Handling of Gifts to Clinton and Trump Charities
Tax experts tell The Huffington Post that some speaking fees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton passed on to family charities should have been reported by the presidential candidates as personal income because they were donations given in return for a service.
Met Museum Will Reword Signs in Deal on Admission Donations
Signs at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will change to say that a $25 donation for admission is “suggested,” not “recommended,” as was previously the case, The New York Times and Hyperallergic report. The museum was sued in 2013 by a member and two tourists who said the vague signage misled visitors about the museum’s pay-what-you-wish admissions policy.
Election Won’t Hamper Charitable Giving, Says Study
Nearly 80 percent of donors surveyed said they plan to donate the same amount to favorite causes this year as in 2015.
By Timothy Sandoval
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