Accountability
August 21, 2015 at 12:29 pm
I am old school and still maintain my to-do list by hand. Some days I do not look at the list because I know what is on the list. The point of this post is not to advocate for the elimination of a work-priority task list, but to encourage you to create a modified version of a list. Divide your list by time segments, priorities and importance with respect to deadlines...
August 21, 2015 at 11:29 am
NPQ has reported on large university foundations in the past, with an emphasis on the debate over whether public policy should be changed to force more endowed funds to be disbursed to fund scholarships and salaries. The largest U.S. universities have billions in endowments (and growing); meanwhile, tuitions continue to rise, and the nation’s student…
August 21, 2015 at 11:23 am
A two-term state senator admitted in federal court Thursday that he stole $1.8 million from the nonprofit agency where he worked and filed a false tax return. Sen. Rick Brinkley, 54, admitted wrongdoing on all six charges—five counts of wire fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return. He negotiated a plea…
August 20, 2015 at 3:18 pm
On Wednesday, former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle pleaded guilty to possession of children pornography and having sex with minors. Court documents show that Fogle used his charitable foundation to access chidren, traveling to foundation-hosted events in Indiana and other states where he would meet and become close with victims...
August 18, 2015 at 12:55 pm
The American Red Cross, which has often boasted of its transparency, attempted to halt a congressional inquiry into its disaster relief work last year, according to a private letter Gail McGovern, CEO of the American Red Cross, wrote to Rep. Bennie Thompson. In the letter, McGovern asked Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi and the ranking…
August 14, 2015 at 1:29 pm
More than 100 New York teenagers—and dozens in Chicago, Houston and Nashville, Tenn.—were duped by a Long Island-based "scam" charity into working at concession stands at major sports and entertainment venues in those cities on the promise they would be paid $9 an hour, but most received little or no compensation, prosecutors said. Whelton Herron, president…
August 12, 2015 at 1:14 pm
"There's one thing that I have in common with every person in this room. We're all trying really hard to figure out how to save the world." The speaker, Cat Lavigne, paused for a second, and then she repeated herself. "We're trying to change the world!" Lavigne was addressing attendees of the Effective Altruism Global…
August 6, 2015 at 1:09 pm
When Daniel Snyder started the Original Americans Foundation, the Redskins owner was hoping to earn some goodwill from Native Americans. The foundation makes charitable donations in the form of money, clothing, medicine and other materials. But one South Dakota group declined to accept a check for $25,000 from Snyder's foundation. Ryman LeBeau, a member of the…
August 3, 2015 at 1:20 pm
A taxpayer-funded Brooklyn nonprofit is in turmoil Âafter its last two directors abruptly left, one with a fat pay package. Hannah Achtenberg Kinn was booted as head of the League Education & Treatment Center last year with a parting payment of $785,000, a former insider at the agency told The Post. Her retirement benefits also…
July 21, 2015 at 5:00 am
A man was sentenced to prison Monday for stealing thousands of dollars in funds from a Philadelphia nonprofit that helps the homeless. Nathaniel Robinson, 62, pleaded guilty in March to stealing from a program that receives federal funds. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Robinson used his corporate credit card from 2006 to 2010 to…
