Government & Regulation
The easiest, cleanest way to get the money from Adidas to the high-school recruit and his family, the men agreed according to a federal complaint, was to launder it through the nonprofit headquartered here, in a five-bedroom home with blue siding, a brick walkway and a well-manicured lawn in the middle of a nondescript suburban…
As a nonprofit organization, it is important to be engaged and relevant to the community that you are located in. By becoming an active member in the local area, not only can you increase the recognition of your organization, but you can also meet the people that make up the very community you operate in. These people…
Since President Donald Trump’s administration ordered an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Sept. 5, nonprofit providers across New York City have responded to those directly affected by offering legal services and other help. The move would phase out a program, created by then-President Barack Obama in a June 2012 executive…
Charity regulators are cracking down on fundraising scammers after concerns that fraudsters had used tragedies such as Grenfell Tower and terror attacks to dupe donors. Fundraising platforms are to attend a meeting with the Charity Commission to agree new guidelines after websites, such as JustGiving and GoFundMe, were forced to suspend fundraising pages for tragedies,…
President Donald J. Trump’s inaugural committee raised an unprecedented $107 million, and the committee pledged to give leftover funds to charity. That amount doubled former President Barack Obama's then-record inauguration donations in 2009, which totaled around $53 million...
The White House on Wednesday listed 12 charities that will receive personal donations from President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, who pledged last week to donate $1 million for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. The largest contributions will go to the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, which are each set to receive $300,000 according…
Millions of pounds in administration costs were deducted from the charitable donations made by Tesco using funds generated from the plastic bag tax, government data has revealed. No other major supermarket made any such deductions, leading senior MPs to urge Tesco to follow their lead. The 5p charge for plastic bags was introduced in England…
President Trump and his re-election campaign have decided to cancel fundraisers scheduled this fall in Texas as the state recovers from Hurricane Harvey. Trump was originally scheduled to hold a fundraising event in Dallas the end of September, while Vice President Mike Pence was slotted to attend fundraisers in San Antonio and Houston the beginning…
Most Republicans support killing the estate tax as part of a tax overhaul, but doing so could have dire consequences for something else conservatives cherish—charitable giving. President Donald Trump along with top GOP lawmakers have proposed ending what they call the death tax—a 40 percent levy that’s applied to estates worth more than $5.49 million…
Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordered foreign staff members of an American nonprofit that receives support from the U.S. government to leave the country within a week, part of an apparent attempt to silence opposition voices in the lead-up to national elections next year. Cambodia is ruled by one of the world’s longest-serving leaders, Prime…