Nonprofit Law Prof Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-6156982009-11-06T07:56:03-05:00A Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePadNonprofitLawProfBloghttp://feedburner.google.comFord Foundation to Give $100 Million for Educationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6b0e794970c2009-11-06T07:56:03-05:002009-11-06T07:56:03-05:00The Ford Foundation has pledged to make grants of $100 million available to improve public education. The new program will target seven cities — Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark, New York, and Philadelphia, and will focus on four goals:...Nonprofit BloggerAnother Source on Nonprofit Performance Metricstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6a9e79c970c2009-11-05T08:13:34-05:002009-11-04T19:00:03-05:00Yesterday I blogged about a joint project between The Urban Institute and Social Solutions to launch a web portal with information to help nonprofits improve performance. Today, Root Cause, a nonprofit advisory organization, announced a new book recommending that nonprofits...Nonprofit BloggerIRS Seeks Applications for TE/GE Advisory Committeetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a65485f0970b2009-11-05T08:12:56-05:002009-11-05T08:14:46-05:00From the IRS web site: The Internal Revenue Service is seeking applications for vacancies on the Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT). The committee provides a venue for public input into critical tax administration areas. Vacancies exist...Nonprofit BloggerTexas Tribune: Newest Nonprofit Newspapertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a64f1977970b2009-11-04T08:19:42-05:002009-11-03T11:22:44-05:00The Texas Tribune is the latest nonprofit news organization to launch (website is here). This article at PaidContent.org gives some of the details behind the effort: The vision for a nonprofit covering Texas politics, public policy and government started with...Nonprofit BloggerUrban Institute and Social Solutions to Launch Web Portal to Help Nonprofit Performancetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a64f497e970b2009-11-04T08:19:23-05:002009-11-03T11:48:16-05:00According to this story in Reuters, The Urban Institute has teamed up with Social Solutions (a leading provider of human services performance management software) to launch a web portal that will provide nonprofits with information and measurement tools to enhance...Nonprofit BloggerUniversity President Salaries Rise and Grassley Bitestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a64e7e55970b2009-11-03T08:35:17-05:002009-11-03T08:35:17-05:00The economy appears to have recovered enough for Senator Chuck Grassley, IA, to resume his critique of the spending habits of colleges and universities. In this press release posted on IowaPolitics.com, Grassley assails the fact that presidents at private colleges...Nonprofit BloggerAnother Tax Controversy Brewing in Urbana, IL?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a648cfa8970b2009-11-03T08:14:02-05:002009-11-03T10:45:30-05:00Most of the readers of this blog know about the pending property tax litigation involving Provena-Covenant hospital in Urbana, IL (see prior blog post here and the previous blog coverage cited). Now Urbana has a potential new tax controversy on...Nonprofit BloggerCharter Schools and Private Benefittag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a69c495b970c2009-11-02T07:47:40-05:002009-11-01T21:53:33-05:00This story in the Fort Wayne, IN Journal-Gazette raises some interesting questions regarding tax-exemption for privately-run charter schools. As the story notes, many charter schools are run by private, for-profit management organizations. Ergo, though the school itself may be organized...Nonprofit BloggerNCPL Conference at NYU Discusses Comparative Worth of Charitiestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a69e84b0970c2009-11-02T07:46:58-05:002009-11-02T08:04:47-05:00This past Thursday afternoon and Friday (October 29-30), the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at NYU hosted an invitation-only conference on Measuring the Comparative Worthiness of Charities. Rob Atkinson (Florida State) began the conference Thursday afternoon with a...Nonprofit BloggerZimbabwe—Leaders of NANGO Held in Prisontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a69284a1970c2009-10-30T10:07:01-04:002009-10-30T10:07:01-04:00The leaders of Zimbabwe’s National Association of Nongovernmental Organizations (NANGO), which represents more than 1,000 civic groups, were arrested in Victoria Falls after a three-day conference at which five plainclothes security agents sat taking notes in the audience, said the...Nonprofit BloggerINTERNATIONAL—ICNL MAKES NGO LAW MONITOR AVAILABLEtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a63cff2f970b2009-10-30T06:52:52-04:002009-10-30T06:52:52-04:00The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) has introduced the “NGO Law Monitor.” The NGO Law Monitor seeks to provide up-to-date information on legal issues affecting not-for-profit, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) around the world. In the initial phase of the Project,...Nonprofit BloggerTough Fund-raising Year Ahead for Nation's Top Charities tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a68d3236970c2009-10-29T16:24:49-04:002009-10-29T16:24:49-04:00Today's Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that "[b]ruised by the deepest recession in decades, the nation's most-successful fund-raising organizations anticipate that giving will decline this year by a median of 9 percent." The Chronicle's conclusion is based on a survey it...Nonprofit BloggerThurgood Marshall School of Law Hosts Barack Obama Politics, Law & Policy Symposiumtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a68c1399970c2009-10-29T15:23:18-04:002009-10-29T15:23:18-04:00With the first anniversary of President Obama's historic election drawing near, the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas, will tomorrow host the Barack Obama Politics, Law & Policy Symposium. The symposium will focus, not only on the President's...Nonprofit BloggerTrends & Recent Developments in Regulating Non-Governmental Organizations tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6345328970b2009-10-29T13:37:58-04:002009-10-29T13:37:58-04:00Held Oct 28 at ABA Int'l Law Section Meeting: Recently, several states have taken dramatic legislative action to regulate the nature and scope of nongovernmental organization (NGO) activities. In some cases, these regulations have sought to restrict issues NGOs may...Nonprofit BloggerCivil Society Members barred from Attending ASEAN Meetingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6332e0d970b2009-10-29T06:41:28-04:002009-10-29T06:41:28-04:00Civil society representatives were barred from a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as government officials from Burma and Singapore, among others, sabotaged the conference in Thailand, reports the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA). A conference that...Nonprofit BloggerNonprofit News Organization Founded in Chicagotag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6871d85970c2009-10-28T19:31:35-04:002009-10-28T19:31:35-04:00Former top editors from the Chicago Tribune and other journalists have formed a nonprofit news organization - the Chicago News Cooperative. The new venture will provide two pages of local news twice a week for the Chicago edition of the...Nonprofit BloggerTexas Southern University Drops Broadcaster's Name from Schooltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6835d4a970c2009-10-28T16:56:28-04:002009-10-28T16:56:28-04:00A recent Houston Chronicle report revealed that a long-simmering disagreement between broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Texas Southern University("TSU") ended Friday when the university's governing board agreed to strip Smiley's name from its communication school. In 2004, Smiley promised to donate...Nonprofit BloggerComing Soon to Aceh, Indonesia: Death by Stoning for Adultererstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6825a03970c2009-10-28T15:52:58-04:002009-10-28T15:51:57-04:00Today's New York Times reports that under a new Islamic Criminal Code that goes into effect this month, the Shariah police in Aceh, Indonesia, will be wielding a new and more potent threat to the province's citizens and residents: death...Nonprofit BloggerCongress Introduces Legislation to Give Nonprofits Temporary Pension Liability Relieftag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a62a7c78970b2009-10-28T15:14:00-04:002009-10-28T15:13:49-04:00Today's NonProfit Times is reporting that legislation introduced in Congress yesterday could provide temporary relief for nonprofits faced with huge increases in pension contributions in the coming years. The measure, introduced by Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) and Rep. Patrick J....Nonprofit BloggerFrench Court Convicts Church of Scientology of Fraudtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a62580f6970b2009-10-27T16:02:54-04:002009-10-27T16:03:35-04:00Earlier today, a French court convicted the French branch of the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined the organization almost $900,000. However, the court stopped short of granting the prosecution's demand to ban the church entirely. The church said...Nonprofit Blogger