Louis Altman
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Savvy Monkey Makes Money on Selfie-Suit Settlement: A PETA Public Consciousness Tale
NPQ has long seen PETA as a nonprofit to watch in terms of being actively opportunistic about public education. Here’s a sign of the organization’s mastery of that domain. → Read More
The Hundred Dinosaur March
AmeriCorps has channeled a full million civic-minded heroes in the last 20 years into community service ventures throughout the United States. → Read More
A Dinghy Too Far: Tate Galleries Runs Aground in Boating Gaffe
The Tate museum group, a national treasure in Britain, has asked the wrong employees at the wrong time to buy an expensive gift for their longstanding and well-regarded departing leader. → Read More
Nonprofit Consortium’s Campaign Convinces KFC to Phase Out Antibiotics in its Chickens
NRDC frames KFC’s decision to eliminate use of medically important antibiotics as a milestone in addressing a major public health concern. → Read More
Location, Location: St. Louis Nonprofit Opens Movie House Near Ferguson
Movies are the archetypal windows to the American soul, and the hope was that the new venture would be a beacon of hope and a draw for more commercial development money, the two key pillars of any city’s renaissance. → Read More
UK School Punishes Students for Shearing their Heads for Cancer Charity
This coming-of-age story has a charitable twist. Sometimes, a clash of values with authority requires us to take a stand somewhere that may irritate others. → Read More
Stephen Hawking’s New Voice – A Charitable Competition
If you lost the power to speak with your own voice, whose would you choose to speak your thoughts? The world’s most famous living physicist has decided, having teamed up with British charity Comic Relief to document the cavalcade of celebrities and movie stars lining up for the chance. → Read More
Don’t Pave Paradise: New Zealand and India Declare the Personhood of Three Rivers
While the concept of legal rights of personhood for bodies of nature in itself sounds noble and powerful, it is the actual quality of intent and function of the established legal mechanisms playing out in the real world of competing interests that demonstrates the meaningfulness of the pronounced rights. → Read More
Kindergartner Sues County over Bible Class
The plaintiffs say in their complaint that this program “advances and endorses one religion, improperly entangles public schools in religious affairs, and violates the personal consciences of nonreligious and non-Christian parents and students.” → Read More
Faced with Crisis, an Important Program Shows its Adaptive Capacity
This workforce development nonprofit gets a new lease on life and makes good on its mission. → Read More
New Bill Seeks to Shrink SSDI through Mandatory Benefit Termination
Arkansas Republicans introduce legislative therapy for the Social Security Disability Insurance program, seeking to curb benefits for people who can return to work. → Read More
Beware Bermuda’s Pink Triangle: Anti-Marriage Equality Group Granted Charity Status
The nonprofit status of a certain group in Bermuda has become a very public issue—and who knows what that will mean for an island dependent on tourism? → Read More
Freedom’s Just Another Word for $14 a Day
Profiteers have always proliferated around desperate situations. It is not only private prisons eyeing the get-tough-on-immigrants environment as a market opportunity. → Read More
Nevertheless, She Persisted: Women Get Ink en Masse
There are many ways to declare oneself as a resister. “Did I ever think I would get a Mitch McConnell quote tattooed on my body? No, I did not,” she said. “But those are three words that any woman would be able to see themselves in, regardless of politics.” → Read More
Facebook Officially Bars Use of Data for Surveillance of Protests, but is it Sufficient?
There is, a core existential conflict for Facebook and Twitter because of the value of information which social media companies control. → Read More