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Nonprofit News for the week of 8/16/2021   Earthquake Rattles Haiti, Nonprofits & NGOs Step Up In Shadow of Previous Quake Response A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rattled Haiti over the weekend, a devastating blow for a country already in the midst of a severe political crisis. The quake, the epicenter of which was located west of Port-au-Prince, initially seemed less catastrophic as it occurred i...

Nonprofitnewsfeed.com     ASPCA Faces Criticism Over Programming Expense Ratio The ASCPA, known as one of the largest and most publicly visible animal welfare nonprofits within the United States,  is facing criticism highlighted in this CBS News  spot over how it spends its donations. According to the report, only 47% of all donations go towards programs that directly help animals, while the rest...

Nonprofit news for the week of 7/26/2021. Bezos Blasts Off Into Space, Donates $200 Million         Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and the world’s wealthiest human,  has announced a $200 million donation  to the activist Van Jones and humanitarian chef José Andrés. The money, with no strings attached, was part of Bezos’ new “Courage and Civility Award.” Bezos announced the award shortly after returnin...

Nonprofitnewsfeed.com 200 Nonprofits Close In Minnesota, Indicative of Larger Trend Between April of 2020 and March of 2021, 186 nonprofits stopped operations, according to data from the state of Minnesota. Hundreds of other nonprofits are believed to have downsized operations dramatically, indicating a substantial trend. Health, arts, and religious organizations were hurt most substantially. Whil...

  Online Fundraising Platforms Face Fresh Scrutiny New scrutiny  is being applied to the donation fundraising tactics of political fundraising platforms. After a New York Times expose highlighting potentially deceptive practices was released in April, fresh criticism has come in the form of an  open inquiry being led by four democratic state attorneys general . The inquiry is into both the Republi...

Summary of nonprofit news .   Supreme Court Throws Out Nonprofit Donor Disclosure Law Last Thursday the  Supreme Court of the United States  ruled in a 6-3 ruling that California could no longer require nonprofits to submit donor information to the state. Advocates of the law say it adds donor and transparency to the finances of organizations that may serve as a vehicle for unscrupulous influence,...

Nonprofit news for the week of 6/28/2021   Warren Buffett Gives Away $4.1 Billion To Charity, Steps Down From Gates Foundation Warren Buffett, one of the richest people in the world, has  announced a donation of nearly $4.1 billion to charity . This donation comes on the heels of other massive philanthropic donations from wealthy individuals like MacKenzie Scott. Buffet has previously said he seek...

Nonprofit news summary for the week of June 22nd, 2021.  Charitable Giving Reaches All-Time High In 2020 – Report A  new Giving USA report  says that U.S. charitable giving reached an all-time high of approximately $471 billion.  Driven by factors such as an unprecedented pandemic and a broad reckoning over racial violence , giving increased 5.1% from 2019 to 2020 (3.8% when adjusted for inf...

Nonprofit news summaries for the week of June 14th, 2021.    Featured product: A new Inclusivity Language Tool from Whole Whale. Helping organizations check their websites for inclusive language.  New Federal Legislation Aims To Speed Up Donor Advised Funds’ Impact To Charities New proposed legislation  introduced by Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) seeks to speed up th...

Nonprofit news summaries for June 7th   Direct mail price hikes and a push for transparency in politics by nonprofits. USPS Price Increase May Lead To Headache For Nonprofits The United States Postal Services (USPS) has filed for an increase in prices averaging nearly 6.9% system-wide,  according to the Nonprofit Times . As many nonprofit organizations still rely on direct mail strategies for reac...

Nonprofit News for the week of June 1st, 2021.    Tulsa Massacre After 100 Years: Nonprofits Part Of Efforts To Bring Justice The Tulsa massacre, one of the most egregious examples of racial violence in American history, marks its 100th anniversary. After “Black Wall Street” was destroyed by mobs of white supremacists, efforts to bring justice are underway. The Oklahoma Archaeological Survey, asso...

Weekly nonprofit podcast news .    Nonprofit Fights Carbon Emissions With Financial Marketplace University of Chicago professor Michael Greenstone has created a nonprofit called Climate Vault, which could revolutionize how we offset carbon emissions in the marketplace. Using the current cap and trade infrastructure to its advantage, the organization seeks to  redirect capital to environmentally-co...

Weekly nonprofit news updates .    Crypto Billionaire Donates $1 Billion In Meme Coin To India The founder of the cryptocurrency Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin,  announced that he has donated approximately $1 billion  in the meme coin Shiba Inu to nonprofit organizations battling COVID-19 in India. The announcement comes at an interesting moment as philanthropists are increasingly taking up cryptocurre...

Nonprofit News Summary     Bill & Melinda Gates File For Divorce After 27 years of marriage, Bill and Melinda Gates have filed for divorce, rocking one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the process. The Gates Foundation, which began working with providing internet to libraries, now manages nearly $5 billion in annual grants and employs nearly 1,600 people, tackling problems all ove...

Nonprofit News for the week of May 4th, 2021 Democratic Nonprofit Sues Ahead of Potential Redistricting Fight Off the heels of a contentious and troublesome 2020 census, the next political fight shaping up with substantial impact might be redistricting. Acknowledging these tense political battles yet to come, a  lawsuit filed by the nonprofit National Redistricting Action Fund , associated with th...

NonprofitNewsfeed.com Summary of nonprofit news from the week of April 26, 2021.    Supreme Court To Hear Nonprofit Fundraising Case With Broad Implications For Sector On Monday, the  Supreme Court will hear a case  on donor transparency and fundraising with the potential for broad implications for both traditional nonprofits and political organizations. The case centers on a dispute about whether...

NonprofitNewsFeed.com Summary of news for April 19, 2021, California Program Pays To Convert Hotels Into Homeless Shelters California’s new Homekey program will spend nearly $600 million to buy hotels and motels and convert them into homeless shelters. The program is a positive step for both addressing issues of homelessness as well as aiding a hospitality industry hit hard by the pandemic, giving...

Nonprofitnewsfeed.com  summary of the week of 4/12/2021   GOP Fundraising Platform Under Fire for Deceptive Donation Forms A recent  New York Times article  highlighted the potentially deceptive nature of fundraising forms hosted on the GOP’s WinRed donation platform, resulting in the Trump campaign having to issue nearly $122 million in refunds and causing a spike in fraud complaints to banks. Th...

Weekly nonprofit news summary from the best sector.    Positive Economic Indicators Welcome News for Nonprofits Positive economic predictors should be good news for nonprofits after a challenging year,  according to experts . GPD, regional economic indicators, unemployment, government spending, and changes in the stock market are all indicators that might predict the fiscal health of nonprofits. W...

Weekly summary of nonprofit news .    Restrictive Voting Legislation In Georgia Indicative of Larger, Concerning Trend Last week, Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed into law a  restrictive voting bill  decried by voting rights advocates and the President alike as “Jim Crow in the 21st century.” The new legislation comes less than three months after Raphael Warnock was elected as the first black U....

Weekly NonprofitNewsfeed.com summary with hosts Nick Azulay and Kariesha Martinez from digital marketing agency WholeWhale.com. NYC Owes Homeless Nonprofits Millions In Unpaid Invoices The City of New York  owes its homeless nonprofit organizations  over $150 million in unpaid invoices, according to a survey of homeless shelter operators. Catherine Trapani, the executive director at Home...

2020 Saw 10% Jump In Giving According to the Quarterly Fundraising Report, nonprofit fundraising was up 10% overall in 2020 compared to 2019. While this represents the highest volume of donations in 5 years, donor retention continues to drop (approximately by 4%), even after new donors are acquired or re-activated. A decline in retained, repeat donors is a trend the industry must be aware of in 20...

Whole Whale discusses current nonprofit news from NonprofitNewsFeed.com   $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill Passes With Expansion Of Unemployment Benefits And PPP The Biden administration’s new COVID Relief bill has passed the House and Senate, clearing the way for approval of an  expansive new bill  designed to expand unemployment benefits, the federal PPP, as well as support for vaccine distribution a...

WholeWhale.com Hosts Kariesha and Nick discuss the week in nonprofits to kick off March.    CEO Calls Billionaire Philanthropy A ‘PR Scam.’ Dan Price, founder and CEO of credit-card payment company Gravity Payments, says that billionaire philanthropists who donate lots of money in return for glowing reviews and good press is “ one of capitalism’s biggest PR scams .” In Washington state, billionair...

Hosts Kariesha and Nick discuss nonprofit news highlights from 2/22/2021.    Revenge is a powerful emotion when used for giving and forgiving?      Viral Fundraiser Highlights Real Impact of Revenge Giving Rage giving is all the rage. When Tommy Marcus, a 25-year-old University of Michigan graduate learned of Rush Limbaugh’s death, he  felt it appropriate to donate  to Planned Parenthood. After a...