Accountability

Sometime after they divorced in 2012, the Livestrong cancer foundation received an unusual request from Lance Armstrong, the charity’s founder and biggest donor. He wanted his name back. Livestrong officially changed its name more than three years ago, dumping its original name—the Lance Armstrong Foundation—in favor of Livestrong, its popular nickname. But the foundation still…

Give Local America, a single-day, online-only fundraising event, happened on May 3. This annual rally brought thousands of people together to support local nonprofits in their communities. But this year, the event hit a glitch due to a hardware issue, causing delays in processing the payments and frustrating a lot of people...

Healing Arts Initiative, the New York charity at the center of a $750,000 embezzlement controversy, on Friday fired executive director D. Alexandra Dyer and chief financial officer Frank Williams. The board said it fired the pair for withholding “critical financial and other information,” according to The New York Times. But Dyer and Williams say they were forced out for exposing the board's financial negligence...

In a sign of the continuing chaos at the top of the $12 billion Hershey charity, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General is seeking the resignation of three long-standing board members at the Hershey School for poor children, according to a letter from the office obtained by The Inquirer. The resignations would amount to an…

When you have been in the nonprofit business as long as I have, you have seen everything. I have been to countless meetings, lunch appointments, seminars, dinners and various events. In the nonprofit world, you typically react to someone’s act. We all strive for the end result, whatever that turns out to be in the long run. I can wait forever if, in the end, it results in large quantities of time, talent or treasure for the institution I represent...

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said Thursday he intends to take court action to stop a Utah telemarketing company from using what he called “deceptive, unsavory and aggressive” solicitation tactics to extract charitable contributions that Michigan residents have said they never agreed to make. Schuette said in a statement that he will ask for a…

House Republicans seek to prevent the IRS from collecting information about nonprofits' donors—a call to change the federal requirement for nonprofits to list donors of $5,000 or more on their tax returns...

On Feb. 27, Eh Wah was driving through home from a 19-stop tour with a Burmese Christian rock band. Wah, the band's volunteer manager, had in his possession some $53,000 in cash raised through the tour, more than $30,000 of it for charity. When police stopped Wah for a broken brake light, they seized the cash, claiming it was drug money...

There’s new trouble for a woman who ran a controversial charity in Raleigh, N.C. The North Carolina Secretary of State’s office is looking at Jennifer Pierce’s participation in an ongoing criminal enterprise that cost two companies nearly $1 million. CBS North Carolina has uncovered a number of court documents that indicate Pierce and an accomplice were using…

Picture this familiar scenario: It’s been six weeks since you spent time and effort researching regional foundations and sending out eight new proposals in support of a planned educational initiative on behalf of your three-year-old community arts organization...