Social Service/Public Welfare/Human Services
December 10, 2015 at 10:33 am
A group of New York nonprofits wants to see the minimum wage for state social service contract workers increased to $15 an hour. The move, if paid for by the state in contracts with nonprofit service providers, would cost the state about $300 million when fully phased in, according to a Fiscal Policy Institute estimate.…
September 29, 2015 at 11:39 am
Nonprofit leaders are heralding the United Nations adoption of a new 15-year global-development agenda even as they acknowledge a long, costly road ahead to deliver on its promises. After years of planning and negotiations, U.N. members formally adopted 17 sustainable-development goals (SDGs) on Friday during a U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York. The SDGs…
September 23, 2015 at 11:23 am
The CEO of arguably the largest nonprofit social-service organization in the world is making his first trip to the United States this month. His name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio. But you probably know him as Francis. The wildly popular pope will visit New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. during his visit this week, and while…
September 3, 2015 at 10:12 am
Ella Eckerson and Brent Rogers are hoping to have strangers at their wedding this weekend. The bride, 30, and groom, 32, are forgoing the traditional wedding template and instead will host a rock charity concert in front of hundreds of family, friends and, they hope, plenty of people they’ve never met. They plan to exchange…
July 28, 2015 at 1:24 pm
Heather Foster, the White House’s lead liaison to the African-American community who helped coordinate President Obama’s response to the Charleston shooting, and Ferguson and Baltimore riots, is leaving her post to join the new White House-backed initiative to help young men of color. Foster, an adviser in the White House Office of Public Engagement for…
July 27, 2015 at 1:39 pm
A claim by the American Red Cross that it was contractually prohibited from releasing information about some of its activities in Haiti drew fire from some nonprofit leaders, who say such contracts are a handy way to block disclosure without good cause. And the practice, which involves including nondisclosure language in contracts for services between…
July 17, 2015 at 2:01 pm
The Oregon Department of Justice has filed an unusual state bar complaint against prominent Republican activist Kevin Mannix, charging that the lawyer violated ethics rules when he represented a veterans charity that funneled $1.1 million to his political and business activities. The bar complaint says that Mannix, the 2002 GOP nominee for governor and a…
July 16, 2015 at 12:34 pm
Funding from foundations in support of global human rights initiatives totaled $1.8 billion in 2012, a report from Foundation Center and the International Human Rights Funders Group finds. The 2015 edition of Advancing Human Rights: Update on Global Foundation Grantmaking found that 774 foundations based in 45 countries made nearly 19,000 grants to almost 11,000…
July 9, 2015 at 1:57 pm
For donors who want to know exactly how their money’s being spent, there’s a new transparent nonprofit that allows its supporters to rest easy. New Story, an Atlanta-based group, identifies families in need, shares their struggles via moving video stories and then solicits donations from supporters. But what distinguishes this initiative from other similar-sounding ones…
June 12, 2015 at 2:36 pm
How often do you try to connect with someone at another organization? Sometimes you need an opportunity to call on others without seeming too aggressive. If you have an opportunity to make a positive impression, do it.
