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And the most racist state in the Union is . . .

And the most racist state in the Union is . . .
And the most racist state in the Union is–Wisconsin! A Boston University study finds racism in the north! And the more racism, the more police shootings of black people! (H/t the Nonprofit Quarterly.) The Nonprofiteer realizes this is something of a dog-bites-man story: so new? Though she wouldn’t have expected Wisconsin to be #1 on... Read more »
By Nonprofiteer,
March 15, 2018 at 10:40 am
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Charities should fight poverty, not create it

Charities should fight poverty, not create it
The job of the charitable sector is to fight poverty, not create it. Someone should mention that to the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. Bravo to the SEIU for calling attention to the issue with a one-day strike of child-care workers. In the wake of the West Virginia teachers’ successful job action, it seems like unions... Read more »
By Nonprofiteer,
March 9, 2018 at 6:18 pm
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Museum Admission Fees Could Go Down Instead of Up

Museum Admission Fees Could Go Down Instead of Up
Last week the Chicago Tribune reported that the Museum of Science & Industry and the Chicago History Museum will raise their admission fees effective February 1, creating a confusing welter of numbers: teens will pay a nickel less at MSI but $3 more at the History Museum, but on alternate Tuesdays when the moon is... Read more »
By Nonprofiteer,
January 17, 2018 at 8:56 pm
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Donations to Advance the Minimum Wage Increase?

Donations to Advance the Minimum Wage Increase?
A fascinating proposal for advancing the minimum wage increase: use workplace giving. Naturally, the bosses complain–but it’s the workers’ money!
By Nonprofiteer,
January 11, 2018 at 3:02 pm
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Hoarding endowments: How poor students and taxpayers preserve the wealth of private higher education

Hoarding endowments: How poor students and taxpayers preserve the wealth of private higher education
Buried in this story about elite universities’ practice of hoarding endowments while squeezing money from Uncle Sam and poor students is a nugget of information on which the otherwise all-knowing Nonprofiteer has previously failed to focus: that colleges and universities are exempt from the 5% distribution rule which controls hoarding by foundations.  Institutions of higher... Read more »
By Nonprofiteer,
August 11, 2016 at 11:05 am
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Harvard, free tuition and affirmative action

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May 24, 2016 at 1:54 pm
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Impact Investing Is No Substitute for Philanthropy

Impact Investing Is No Substitute for Philanthropy
This letter to the Sun-Times by Phillip Jackson, Founder and Executive Director of Chicago’s Black Star Project, ably summarizes everything that’s wrong with the recent announcement by the MacArthur Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust and the Calvert Foundation that they plan to join forces to lend money to nonprofits, a behavior they style “impact investing.”... Read more »
By Nonprofiteer,
May 2, 2016 at 5:09 pm
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Remember overtime pay? It's back--yes, at nonprofits, too!

Remember overtime pay? It's back--yes, at nonprofits, too!
Remember overtime pay?  The Department of Labor is about to restore it–and yes, nonprofits will have to comply along with the rest of the business community.  Hooray!  And if any nonprofit Board member predicts the end of the world as we know it because of the requirement, ask him/her how much s/he is giving to... Read more »
By Nonprofiteer,
April 21, 2016 at 12:01 pm
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Low pay at nonprofits: a worm's-eye view

The Nonprofiteer rarely publishes the work of anyone else, but if ever there was a case for an exception it’s this post about the low pay at nonprofits.  ProgChik drills down into the f***ed-up world of nonprofit compensation (or nonprofit noncompensation, as the case may be).  Many thanks to the author for permitting me to... Read more »
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March 2, 2016 at 1:54 pm
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Fair's fair and that's fair: regulate guns like abortions. Better yet, regulate guns instead of abortions.

The Nonprofiteer is disappointed that this Missouri legislation doesn’t include all the restrictions on gun purchase proposed in a post from Janis Ian making its way around Facebook: But it’s a good start.  
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December 10, 2015 at 5:34 pm
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