Nonprofits and NGOs

LGBTQ Reactions to President Obama's Second Inaugural Address

Toward the end of his second inaugural speech today, President Obama said that, "our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law ... More >>

The Rolling Jubilee Mails its First Debt Forgiveness Letters

When the debt activism group Strike Debt began planning its Rolling Jubilee, the goal was relatively modest: They would raise $50,000, use it to buy distressed medical debt on secondary debt markets, and then, rather than hounding the debtors like the collection agencies that buy most of this sort o ... More >>

College Housing Non-Profit to Recover Millions in Funds Stolen by Founder

George Scott, former president of Educational Housing Services, will finally pay the price for sucking millions of dollars out of the very organization he founded more than two decades ago. The disgraced former president must repay $4.5 million to the organization -- after agreeing to settlement te ... More >>

Schneiderman's Sandy Clampdown Continues: Non-Profits Next On NYAG's List

Last week, we reported on the subpoenas sent out by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to thirteen different gas providers in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The intention was simple: these providers, according to Schneiderman, were targeted for price-gouging consumers to profit off of the ene ... More >>

State Senator Shirley Huntley Tells Crowd She Will Be Arrested on Monday

At 11am this morning, the State Senator representing the Jamaica, Queens area called an emergency press conference at her home in the neighborhood. There, Shirley L. Huntley told the crowd that she expects to be arrested on Monday. Although she did not make clear what the charges against her would b ... More >>

YOUTH GONE WILD

Who says you're too old for games?

WNYC: The City's Largest Private Employer Is The Nonprofit Sector

A fascinating story on WNYC this morning: a new report finds that the city's largest private employer is the nonprofit sector. When we wrote our cover story "The Nonprofit 1 Percent," we saw that there are some lucrative posts at the top of some of the city's nonprofit organizations. But we didn't ... More >>

Want To Be Wikipedia-Worthy? It Costs $300

Here's another idea that would have made you rich if you had thought of it first (but didn't.) Brooklynites Aaron Wertheimer and Erez Safer are now making "citation-heavy" Wikipedia entries for 300 bucks via their new biz, My Wiki Pro. Their clientele mainly includes small businesses and bourgeo ... More >>

Once Upon a Time in the Bronx: Theatre of the Oppressed Explores Violence, Family Life

When directors with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC asked a group of teenage girls to strike a pose that they think represents the Bronx, most of them did the same thing: They chose images with weapons. This is how artist Melanie Crean remembers a workshop with around ten teenage girls in the Bronx, ... More >>

Jewish Guild For The Blind Hires Back Music Therapist For Seniors After Voice Investigation

We've got some good news to report this Friday: the Jewish Guild for the Blind has hired back its music therapist, Debbie Moran, after a cover story and an on-going series in the Voice highlighted problems at the nonprofit organization. In March the Voice reported how Moran, who had worked with eld ... More >>

Karaoke For The Blind? Jewish Guild For the Blind Thinks Client's Vision Problems Make Her Mentally Deficient (Part 1)

Part 1 in a series. Last month, the Voice reported how the Jewish Guild for the Blind cut its part-time music therapist Debbie Moran, who was earning about $5,000 a year, allegedly due to "Medicaid budget cuts" -- despite the fact that the nonprofit's CEO, Dr. Alan Morse, had recently seen an 82% p ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Taps Bronx Assemblyman Peter Rivera (And Baggage That Comes With Him) For Top Labor Gig

​Governor Andrew Cuomo used the annual dinner for a non-profit group aimed at increasing the role of Hispanics in the public policy making process to announce that Democratic Bronx Assemblyman Peter Rivera is his pick to replace Colleen Gardner (a David Patterson holdover) as the commissioner of t ... More >>

The Nonprofit 1 Percent

Even the do-gooders can seem blind to their own excess

The Jewish Guild For the Blind and Homes For the Homeless: See The Tax Returns Of Your Tax Dollars At Work

In this week's Voice cover story, we take a look at "The Nonprofit 1%," those people who head tax-exempt organizations which pay them so well, they're in the top one percent of earners. We take a particularly close look at the Jewish Guild for the Blind, where a $5,000 a year part-time music therapi ... More >>

9/11 Benefit Show

Rick Jacobs, Founder of the Courage Campaign, On Pepsi and Corporate Giving

Steven ThrasherJacobs at the Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal signing ceremony​Last week, we wrote about how the Courage Campaign won $50,000 from the Pepsi Challenge, and our concern about the ways in which Pepsi was able to use an LGBT advocacy group to market its product in the non-profit arena ... More >>

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Check out field-hockey action

WHEELS OF GLORY

Move over for the Gotham Girls Roller Derby

WORD PLAY

Scrabble just got a whole lot cooler

David Wojnarowicz Foe Bill Donohue’s Catholic League Salary

Or, More Ways to Cash in on Religion

Checks for Execs--the Top Earners in NYC's Nonprofit Theater World

The Voice charts the salaries

FEELING GREEN

Elton John and Lady Gaga band together for a good cause

COME SAIL AWAY

A class to indulge your inner Gilligan

Are Nonprofit News Sites Doomed to Fail?

​This morning, the Poynter Institute reported that Columbia University's launched a nonprofit news website via their Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. It'll be focusing on national and regional reporting about education. Follow? A website, funded as a nonprofit, strictly devoted ... More >>

Behind Each One Counts, the Bogus Charity Solar and His Wife Set Up in Guru from Gang Starr's Name

​Not surprising, but demoralizing nonetheless. When Guru, the erstwhile Gang Starr MC, passed last week, the news was accompanied by a very suspicious sounding letter. The missive, which began "I, Guru, am writing this letter to my fans, friends and loved ones around the world," purported to b ... More >>

WALK HARD

Get in shape with a weekly stroll

ART SMARTS

Museum poseurs, you may want to skip this

NY Restaurateurs Begin to Mobilize to Raise Money for Haiti

Getty ImagesA scene in Port au Prince.​ A day after Haiti was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, some local chefs and restaurateurs are trying to mobilize to raise money for the stricken country.

New Bloomberg Threat and This Time It's To Cuomo

There's something familiar about this third-term Mike Bloomberg...​On a panel last night discussing the city's new political landscape, Times columnist Clyde Haberman suggested to the crowd at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs that the signs so far from Mike Bloomberg are a little om ... More >>

United Homeless Organization a Scam, Says Cuomo

​The United Homeless Organization -- the non-profit group which, since 1993, has been setting up tables on street corners throughout the city and soliciting money with those ubiquitous plastic UHO water jugs -- is a fraud, according to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is suing the group, ... More >>

WALK ON

See Manhattan slowly, for once

SWIMFAN

Can you spot the next Phelps?

Lawsuits and the Langston Hughes House

A Harlem cultural touchstone, like so many others, closes off its past

Love It or Level It

The saga of old P.S. 64 is a real education

For a Few Dollars More

As technologies evolve and priorities shift, media nonprofits struggle to stay afloat

Exxon's Big, Big, Big Bucks

Oil company posts record profits. Guess who helped.

1960

Muffling the Left

Watchdog Reveals Effort to Gag Anti-Bush Causes

The Wagers of War

Web Site Takes Bets on When Iraq Attack Will Start

The Money Trail

Arts Groups Large and Small Suffer After September 11; Special Foundation Grants Kick In

Sports

Parole Call

La Bodega Forges Alliance With Parole Officers to Help the Hidden Victims of Addiction

Let Us Prey

One Church in the HUD Rehab-Loan Scandal Says It Was a Lamb Led to the Slaughter

Political Therapy

The Rogue Candidate

The Embarrassing Midlife Crisis of Steve Forbes, Rich White Guy

A great year for a great guy!

Ab Fab

Photographs by Nina Roberts

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