Dirty Money
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When are people going to learn that politics and nonprofits just don’t go together? It is messy; it even gets ugly. It complicates things where, truthfully, additional layers of complication don’t need to be added. Plus, it always raises eyebrows. And that’s never a good thing.
Recently, The Philadelphia Inquirer did an article on the philanthropy of media and cable giant Comcast. Dollar-wise, Comcast is a good philanthropist: according to its own promotion materials, it has given $25 million to charity since its inception Read more
Executive Excess
It seems that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has painted a bulls-eye on his state’s nonprofits. He recently announced the creation of a task force to audit nonprofits that receive state funds. Not a bad idea in and of itself. But these audits won’t be assessing the general financial health and well-being of the nonprofits; they won’t be looking for misappropriated tax dollars.
They will solely be about determining whether the salaries of the executive directors/CEOs is “appropriate.” See, Cuomo thinks that heads of nonprofits are Read more