Using the Whole Whale - A Nonprofit Podcast
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April Nonprofit news summary.
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Faces Scrutiny Over Spending & TransparencyQuestions have arisen over how the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) has spent and reported on charitable contributions, as reported by New York magazine. The organization, which serves as an umbrella organization for some local BLM organizations (though not all organizations with BLM in their name) faces criticism for the purchase of a $6 million dollar home in California, as well as the appearance of lack of transparency stemming not submitting a form 990, as required by their tax exempt status granted in 2020. While right-wing and far-right news outlets are seizing on this story as an angle of political attack, Candid co-founder and former CEO of GuideStar Jacob Harold is quoted as responding to the reporting as a “very legitimate critique.”
Read more ➝In a reversal of a previous Biden administration moratorium, the Interior Department is opening up 144,000 acres of onshore land to new leases for oil drilling, as reported by Mother Jones. While the announcement comes as bad news to environmentalists, surging oil and gas prices have put the Biden administration between a rock and a hard place as supply chain issues and disruptions stemming from the Russia Ukraine war have continued to increase prices globally. The Interior Department has responded by saying that the new leases only open up 20% of what the oil industry asked for, and the royalties that the oil companies will have to pay the government will go up from 12.5 percent to 18.75 percent, the first increase in a century.
Read more ➝Summary
236: (news) Nonprofits in Tulsa & USAID Russian Hack
235: (news) Carbon Capture & Fighting Voter Suppression
234: Volunteering through the Pandemic with Golden
233:(news) $1B Meme Coin Donations & Nonprofit job report
232:(news) Gates Foundation Divorce & Vaccine Awareness work
231: Your Voice Matters: Author Interview
230:(news) Redistricting Battles & Thinning Girl Scout Cookie sales
229: What I learned in 5 Years at Whole Whale: Meredith Esquivel
228:(news) SCOTUS Deciding on Donor Privacy & Marijuana Funding for Nonprofits
227:(news) Homeless Hotels & Nonprofit Jobs Rise
226: The Social Policy of Homelessness
225:(news) Fraud to the left, Fraud to the right
224: How to 10x $ to Build Inclusive Affordable Housing
223:(news) Capitol Riot Fundraising & Good Econ Signals For NGOs
222:(news) Restrictive Voting, #StopAsianHate, & DAFS
221: Making sense of Facebook Tracking vs IOS 14
220: How Issue Voter is shifting the focus
219: (news) NYC and ICE need to spend millions for nonprofit support
218: (news) $1B Stimulus for AmeriCorps + Rise in Giving Trend
217: Managing Cash Flow Through Crisis - GrowthForce
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