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BREAST-CANCER CHARITY WITHDRAWS SUPPORT
FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD
With an initial gift of $250,000, Planned Parenthood
Federation of America started a new fundraising
campaign last week to offset the controversial decision by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to end more
than $500,000 in annual grants to Planned Parenthood affiliates. The Komen cuts coincide with a Congressional investigation into whether Planned Parenthood uses government money to pay for abortions,
a charge that Planned Parenthood denies. Already
the decision is prompting protest: Komen’s Denver
affiliate has asked to be excluded from cutting off
Planned Parenthood.
board member of charities that receive government
aid to get professional training in financial management, governance, or ethics every other year.
RELIGIOUS GROUPS MUST COVER CONTRACEPTION,
SAYS OBAMA PLAN
President Obama’s health-care plan will require religious organizations, including nonprofit hospitals
and universities, to provide birth-control coverage to
employees, by August 2013. Houses of worship and
some religious schools are exempt from the provision,
but the Roman Catholic Church had sought to exclude a wider range of religious organizations.
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FLA. SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES LIMITS
ON NONPROFIT PAY
A state Senate committee in Florida approved a measure last month that would prohibit state-supported
nonprofits from paying anyone more than the state’s
highest-paid elected official receives. The rule would
affect charities that receive more than two-thirds of
their money from the state. The bill’s sponsor, Sen.
Ronda Storms, a Republican, said she was concerned
about the size of bonuses paid to employees at community-based care organizations.
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NONPROFITS ADDED JOBS FASTER
THAN BUSINESSES, STUDY FINDS
Nonprofits added jobs while businesses cut jobs in the
years from 2000 to 2010, a study found. On average,
jobs at nonprofits grew by 2 percent each year and
business-related jobs declined by 0.6 percent. Charities even increased employment by nearly 2 percent
in the recession years of 2008 and 2009, while for-profit jobs fell by nearly 4 percent. The study, by the
Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins
University, used Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Learn how Invisible People, an organization
that advocates for the poor, is helping homeless people use social media to spread the word
about their experiences, in Social Good, a
Chronicle podcast.
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N.H. BILL WOULD REQUIRE BOARD MEMBERS
TO GET PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Charity boards in New Hampshire could face a new
rule under a bill passed by the state Senate last
month. The legislation would require at least one
IRS MONITOR SAYS AGENCY SHOULD ALLOW
CHALLENGES TO LOSS OF CHARITY STATUS
Charities that lost their tax-exempt status should be
allowed to challenge the Internal Revenue Service’s
decision rather than be required to submit an application to seek tax-exempt status anew, the IRS’s internal monitor said in her annual report in January.
More than 385,000 nonprofits lost their tax-exempt
status last year after failing to file tax returns with
the IRS for three consecutive years.
Read the transcript of last week’s
live discussion
with two fundraising experts who
offer advice on
how to raise more
through direct
mail.
googl e+ For nonpr oFits
Opinion
Watch a video discussion to see how Google+ for
Nonprofits and others advise charities to take
advantage of the new social network.
Donors get so caught up in new and sexy
causes they too often shy away from making
grants that would bring about real change,
write two leaders of the Thomas B. Fordham
Institute. PAg e 3 9
A wealth gap persists in the nonprofit world,
yet few charity leaders have done much to call
attention to the inequity, writes Mark Rosenman, who directs Caring to Change. PAge 39
The press and the public fawn over big gifts
without ever questioning the giving priorities
of the rich, writes Pablo Eisenberg, a Chronicle
columnist. PAg e 3 9
The Supreme Court has cleared an obstacle
that has been impeding efforts to channel more
money to religious groups, write the philanthropy scholars Suzanne Garment and Leslie
Lenkowksy. PAg e 4 0
As biomedical research explodes, two
scholars offer ways to ensure that donors are
doing the best they can to help guarantee that
discoveries lead to effective therapies. PAg e 4 1
ADVOCACY EFFORTS PAY OFF,
SAYS STUDY BY WATCHDOG GROUP
Every dollar spent on charity advocacy efforts in the
past five years led to a $115 benefit to communities,
according to a new study by the National Committee
for Responsive Philanthropy. The study examined
110 charities in 13 states and found that nonprofit organizations spent $231-million on advocacy efforts,
yielding at least $26.6-billion in benefits to communities.
OXFAM TO INVEST IN SMALL BUSINESSES
Oxfam International has joined forces with a Swiss
microfinance company, Symbiotics, to start the
Small Enterprise Impact Investment Fund to invest
in small and medium-size businesses in Africa and
Asia. The effort will focus on food and agriculture,
and will seek to produce returns of at least 5 percent.
The entity is Oxfam’s first foray into such investing.
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An official of the X Prize Foundation discusses
the process and challenges of running an
effective prize contest on the Giveaway, a
Chronicle blog.
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Food for the Hungry, one of the nation’s biggest
charities, was accused of deliberately overstating the value of revenue from deworming
pills with the intention of misleading donors.
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hospital l oses cour t tussl e
oVer giFt Fr om gar th Br ooKs
A court said the hospital didn’t follow the country singer’s intentions and needed to return a
$500,000 gift, plus that same amount in penalties. PAg e 2 5
poli tician s and their giVing
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama both give a
far bigger share of their income to charity than
others in their wealth bracket. PAge 29
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