Where Most Needed

Charity Bake Sale Proponents Reject Nutritional Guidelines

A New York Times article about the impact of California regulation of food sales during school hours draws widespread scorn. 

Roger Clemens Foundation Could Use Some Juice

The pitcher's charity foundation stages a golf event and sells memorabilia, and a significant amount of grants go to places that aren't mentioned in the organization's web site.

Sidebar: Cambridge College and the Risks of Governance

A successful school for working adults provides an example of why legal compliance doesn't eliminate risks in charity governance.

Unusually Large Charity Fraud—in Alaska!

Alaskans are unusually generous—or there's something else going on—for an embezzler to make off with $75,000 from local chapters of two name-brand charities. 

Carnegie Hall Evicts!

About fifty tenants of the Carnegie Hall Studio Towers are facing eviction as the organization decides to convert the apartments to its own use.

Diversity in Funding Sources More Talked About Than Practiced

A study of more than fifty organizations in Baltimore with income from $1 million to $50 million shows that close to 90% rely on just one line on the Form 990 for more than half their income.  Even more notable: the lion's share of private contributions go to organizations that make private contributions their primary source of income.

Edsouth CEO Pulled in a Million from Two Jobs with Affiliated Organizations

Before a corporate restructuring of the nonprofit student loan servicing organization, Tony Hollin claimed to work fifty hours a week from two different subsidiaries.  But he isn't alone in the student loan industry. 

Night Out Leader Says Salary Caps Can't Touch Him

Senator Arlen Specter questions Matt Peskin's pay, which exceeds his own as a US Senator, in the face of caps set on  salaries paid under Federal grants.  But Mr. Peskin says it's none of the government's business, because it's paid for by T-shirt sales, not government grants.

Don Imus Using Charity as Pawn in Contract Dispute

The shock jock helped kids with his charity, now they are helping him collect on his $40 million contract with CBS. 

National Night Out Founder Thinks He's Worth a Quarter Million

About a third of the organization's budget goes to pay the president's salary, approved by a five-person board that includes his brother.   And we track down the source of its funding.