Leo DiCaprio is cooperating with the feds and plans to return more than $1 million worth of donations tainted by a massive international corruption scandal, according to a statement from his charitable foundation Tuesday. The Oscar-winning actor bowed to increasing public pressure that he make amends for his ties to infamous party animal Jho Low,…
A woman of Islamic faith has filed a $1 million lawsuit against a Portland nonprofit, alleging she was fired because of her religion, national origin and disability of asthma. The lawsuit filed last week by Sharmin Rahman contends she was fired by Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare after wearing a head scarf, asking for prayer breaks and…
Nonprofit accounting is hardly donor-friendly. Annual required disclosures on IRS Form 990 are murky and outdated, and nonprofits use all kinds of tricks to conceal how they’re spending contributions. So relief seemed at hand when the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, the rule-setting body for the accounting profession, recently announced the first major changes…
After eight months of scrutiny, Wounded Warrior Project's effort to rebuild its reputation in the nonprofit community got a big boost when a major charity watchdog group removed the veterans charity from its watch list. Charity Navigator, known for its independent review of nonprofits across the country, added Wounded Warrior Project to its watch list…
A former manager at a Northwest Philadelphia mental-health treatment facility was accused Tuesday of embezzling more than a half-million dollars in public funds meant to help children suffering from trauma and behavioral disorders. Federal prosecutors say Sonja McQuillar, the former director of health and information management at Northern Children's Services, issued checks through her job…
A group of 21 states is suing the U.S. over the new overtime rule set to take effect Dec. 1. The attorneys general of Texas and Nevada, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of their states and 19 others, alleged that the rule is unconstitutional and will place too great a burden on businesses, nonprofits and other employers. A coalition of 50 businesses on the same day filed a separate lawsuit seeking to overturn the rule...
David Fahrenthold, reporter for The Washington Post, has been hard at work on the Trump Foundation beat, investigating the foundation so doggedly he's become something of a thorn in Trump's side. And his latest story is a big one, detailing the $258,000 the charity spent to settle lawsuits—a violation of regulations against self-dealing. But that's not why we're here. We're here to talk about golf...
In the recent article “9 Fundraising Myths Shattered,” published here on NonProfit PRO, one of the myths the author sought to debunk was that you need an outside consultant for your capital campaign. It’s true that not every nonprofit needs to have an outside consultant in order to conduct a successful capital campaign. But many clearly do—and even those who don’t might have good reason to consider using outside counsel...
Charity Navigator earlier this year promised that an overhaul of its ratings system and an update to its advisory system were on the way. In May, the watchdog debuted the former. Now, it's delivered on the latter. The new CN Advisory System, launched last week, replaces Charity Navigator's Donor Advisory and Watch List, two separate but similar lists whose functions led to some confusion for the public and consternation for nonprofits...
Just days after Wounded Warrior Project announced layoffs and a $100 million revenue drop, a comprehensive report found fault with the media, the charity's board of directors and virtually everyone else involved in the investigations into the organization's spending. Doug White, former director of the masters of nonprofit management program at Columbia University, spent months writing and researching the 79-page report independently and without compensation. And he found flaws across the board...
