Using the Whole Whale - A Nonprofit Podcast

Weekly nonprofit news summaries .     Nonprofits And Volunteer Organizations Step Up in Wake of Hurricane Ida After Category 4 Hurricane Ida made landfall in south Louisiana on Sunday, organizations on the ground are already  stepping up to help their neighbors . The organization  Shreveport Volunteer Network , a community-based emergency response coalition, has  partnered with other local organiz...

  Viral Fundraiser For Afghans Pits Bountiful Generosity Versus A Logistical Nightmare A GoFundMe hosted by an “Instagram personality”  has generated well over $5 million in funds  in an effort to support the airlift of vulnerable people attempting to flee Afghanistan. Only one problem — organizing an evacuation from a war zone isn’t exactly easy. The funds are slated to go to a group called Raven...

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 in a...

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...

After two great years at Whole Whale, Kariesha Martinez, Senior Marketing Associate is moving on. She shares how the Whole Whale Fellowship program works, what she learned over two years and other advice/thoughts for the company.

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,...

An exit interview with Ann, Technical Creative Director of WholeWhale.com reflecting on lessons over 7 years with the company.  Ann Nguyen Technical Creative Director On Social https://www.linkedin.com/in/nguyenann https://twitter.com/annnnnguyen     Ann joined Whole Whale in 2013 and has been making splashes since then in the areas of design, development, and A/B testing. She keeps the New York t...

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...

We interview Quincy Larson, the founder and a teacher at freeCodeCamp.org . freeCodeCamp is a nonprofit community that helps millions of people learn to code 100% for free helping thousands of people find their first coding job. Quincy shares how the organization got started, built a strong volunteer base and grew its amazing educational library course by course.    Learn more and support at:  htt...

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 inflation...

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...

Interview with Sarika Bansal, Editor and Author of Tread Brightly , a series of curated essays on Ethical Travel. George Weiner interviews Sarika about the themes and topics covered by some of the essays. They also dive into the creation and closing of Sarika's nonprofit BRIGHT Magazine.   About Tread Brightly   Are there ways we can turn travel from passive consumption to an active exchange? Is i...

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...

Karisha Martinez interviews Sam Fankuchen, the Founder & CEO of Golden .  Volunteering is a proven driver of happiness and provides a myriad of physical, mental and social benefits, from living longer and feeling more fulfilled to increasing the chances of being hired. Because of these benefits, we believe volunteering should be a part of every self-care routine.  In 2015, Golden launched to do ju...

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 over th...

We interview Erline Belton the Author of Your Voice Matters.    Erline Belton is President and CEO of Belton’s Crossing, LLC a real estate Development Corporation and the CEO and Founder of the Lyceum Group, an organizational development-consulting firm. The mission of her consulting firm, The Lyceum Group, is to influence societal and workplace re-thinking to encourage new possibilities. Her life...

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...

Meredith Esquivel the Senior Marketing Manager at Whole Whale shares what she has learned after 5 years before leaving for business school.     About Meredith Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithesquivel/   Meredith is fascinated by human behavior, particularly how digital “body language” can inform marketing strategies for social good. Certified in Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Par...

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...