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Insights: Leading nonprofits in 2011
By Elizabeth Ytell Kang, EYK Associates, principal
Experienced nonprofit organization leaders are accustomed to navigating uncharted territory. To fill important social needs, vision, political savvy and innovation are necessary to fuel social change. Read more>>
Rural papers doing better than their city counterparts
By Geoff McGhee, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University, High Country News
Walk in to a town council meeting in Pinedale, Wyoming, and you're likely to find as many as three local reporters scribbling notes and asking questions. That news in a town of 2,030 residents is covered by two newspapers and a website is partly explained by the abundance of mineral wealth in surrounding Sublette County, which produced $3.6 billion in natural gas last year. Add to that the urgent concern about breaching a local dam threatened by record snowmelt coming from the Wind River Range, and you've got a recipe for a small-town media frenzy. Read more >>
U.S. poverty rate tops 15 percent
From Philanthropy News Digest
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the nation's poverty rate increased to 15.1 percent in 2010, the highest level since 1993, and that some 46.2 million Americans are living in poverty, a year-over-year increase of 2.6 million people and the fourth consecutive annual increase. Read more >>
Hershey school scandal underscores need for watchful governance
By Pablo Eisenberg, Chronicle of Philanthropy
For two decades neither the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office nor the Internal Revenue Service has been willing to take serious action to remedy the abuses that have plagued one of the wealthiest nonprofits in America, the Milton Hershey School for poor children. It is one of the longest lingering scandals in the modern nonprofit world and one of the most glaring examples of the abuses of the public trust that can happen when regulators fail to keep a close eye on a charity’s governance. Read more >>
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