Accountability
September 2, 2015 at 9:38 am
Recently I spent a day with a team of passionate fundraisers discussing their fundraising program. The team had strong personal connections to both the organization and the event itself, and many had been working on the program for the majority of their career. In short, this was a dedicated and knowledgeable group. Unfortunately, the program…
September 1, 2015 at 9:42 am
The Animal Rescue League Shelter and Wildlife Center is moving its annual Paw Prints fundraising gala from Heinz Field to the Consol Energy Center to protest the Pittsburgh Steelers' signing of Michael Vick. “(Vick) is a football player in their eyes. In our eyes, he is an animal abuser,” said Ann Yeager, the rescue league's…
August 25, 2015 at 9:31 am
A USA Today investigation into the Jared Foundation's tax records found that the organization, founded in 2008, has not issued a single grant. According to the USA Today report, the foundation spent an average of just $73,000 a year, with 60 percent of that total allocated to former executive director Russell Taylor's salary and 26 percent unaccounted for...
August 24, 2015 at 10:51 am
A patrolman who appears in a video pressuring a driver to support a police fundraiser or have his car towed has been placed on desk duty, police said. Officer Matthew Zagursky embarrassed the police department and may have committed a crime, Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. On the video, the officer asked: "You and your friend…
August 21, 2015 at 12:29 pm
I am old school and still maintain my to-do list by hand. Some days I do not look at the list because I know what is on the list. The point of this post is not to advocate for the elimination of a work-priority task list, but to encourage you to create a modified version of a list. Divide your list by time segments, priorities and importance with respect to deadlines...
August 21, 2015 at 11:29 am
NPQ has reported on large university foundations in the past, with an emphasis on the debate over whether public policy should be changed to force more endowed funds to be disbursed to fund scholarships and salaries. The largest U.S. universities have billions in endowments (and growing); meanwhile, tuitions continue to rise, and the nation’s student…
August 21, 2015 at 11:23 am
A two-term state senator admitted in federal court Thursday that he stole $1.8 million from the nonprofit agency where he worked and filed a false tax return. Sen. Rick Brinkley, 54, admitted wrongdoing on all six charges—five counts of wire fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return. He negotiated a plea…
August 20, 2015 at 3:18 pm
On Wednesday, former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle pleaded guilty to possession of children pornography and having sex with minors. Court documents show that Fogle used his charitable foundation to access chidren, traveling to foundation-hosted events in Indiana and other states where he would meet and become close with victims...
August 18, 2015 at 12:55 pm
The American Red Cross, which has often boasted of its transparency, attempted to halt a congressional inquiry into its disaster relief work last year, according to a private letter Gail McGovern, CEO of the American Red Cross, wrote to Rep. Bennie Thompson. In the letter, McGovern asked Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi and the ranking…
August 14, 2015 at 1:29 pm
More than 100 New York teenagers—and dozens in Chicago, Houston and Nashville, Tenn.—were duped by a Long Island-based "scam" charity into working at concession stands at major sports and entertainment venues in those cities on the promise they would be paid $9 an hour, but most received little or no compensation, prosecutors said. Whelton Herron, president…
