Tax, Legal & Compliance

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...

At what point will the charity watchdogs and, more 
importantly, the general population, understand that “not for profit” does not equate to “for free?” What can we all be doing to help people understand that, like any job, nonprofit organizations want to pay their staff a fair wage with benefits and provide a decent place to work. That good work deserves to be 
rewarded...

Wounded Warrior Project, the embattled veterans charity, last month announced it expected staff cuts as part of its restructuring process following its very public spending controversy. At the time, CEO Michael Linnington was unsure of the extent of the cuts. Now, we have a better idea. Linnington told Stars and Stripes the charity cut 50 percent of its executives and laid off 15 percent of its 600-person staff...

Last month, the Department of Education denied nonprofit status to a chain of for-profit career colleges, accusing the schools’ operators of trying to avoid accountability with the switch. This week, the Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE) fired back, suing the department, alleging the government has a political agenda of putting career schools out…