IRS Chief Forced To Quit After Targeting Tax-Exempts
Internal Revenue Service Interim Commissioner Steven Miller, who at one time headed the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division, resigned when asked to step down by U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. He will leave the job next month. The resignation comes just days after it became public that the I… Read More »
Rockefeller Foundation To Fund Urban Resilience
It’s the Rockefeller Foundation’s centennial birthday and it’s the one handing out gifts -- $100 million worth. The money will go to 100 cities to become more resistant to disasters, natural and otherwise. Dubbed the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, the initiative is an “effort … Read More »
IRS Now Targeted After Stalling Tax-Exempts
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting conservative 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations will be the focus a hearing Friday morning in Washington, D.C., by the House Ways and Means Committee. The only witnesses are expected to be Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller and Treasury Inspector f… Read More »
Finalists Set For Games For Change Awards
Video games are not usually associated with words such as “philanthropy” or “responsible” but, after announcing the finalists for its annual awards show today, Games for Change (G4C) hopes to show off just how effective video games can be at making a difference. The Games for Change Award… Read More »
Volunteering By Seniors Hit 10-Year High
Volunteering by senior citizens hit a 10-year high in 2011 with one in three U.S. volunteers age 55 and older. More than 20 million senior volunteers gave nearly three billion of hours of service, at a value of $67 billion. The data are from Volunteering in American, which uses U.S. Bureau of Lab… Read More »
Judge Orders Cancer Fundraiser To Dissolve
A for-profit fundraising firm was ordered dissolved for engaging in what prosecutors called fraudulent activity regarding cancer fundraising. The New York State Supreme Court has issued a summary judgment against fundraising firm Campaign Center, based in Lindenhurst, N.Y., and its founder, Garre… Read More »
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Nonprofit fundraisers in the UK recently had their own “binders full of women” backlash on social media. Veteran UK fundraiser Giles Pegram, CBE, co-organizer of a conference on the future of fundraising scheduled for April, reportedly tweeted “women are still not adequately engaged in the thinking in fundraising,” according to the Civil Society UK website.
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Not many people like being recorded on video — or even audio for that matter. That notion didn’t stop the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO). In the midst of a $32-million capital campaign, the Newark, N.J., organization recorded their front-line fundraisers doing an elevator speech or mock scenarios making a gift ask. Then they were analyzed and critiqued in how they did, including a review by the CEO.
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